Marijuana

Marijuana or weed as most people know it is a plant that is used for mental and body stimulation when being smoked or ingested. For many years marijuana has been an illegal drug. Recently, a law was passed to legalized marijuana in some states. The State of California is one of the first states to legalized marijuana to a certain level. Some people believe marijuana should be legalized in all states because it has health, mental, economical and spiritual benefits. Conservative people believe marijuana creates health issues, violence, and promotes crime. I believe marijuana has some medicinal benefits when is prescribed by a Physician and used properly, but it should not be legalized because it is a depressant stimulant that would only create health issues and fatalities. Although, marijuana have a lot of benefits it should not be legalized because if not used properly can ruined a person life.

First of all, People believe marijuana should be legalized in all United States, and it should be for all ages because it has health benefits. In recent years, marijuana has been used to treat psychological disorders like Parkinson’s disease, Depression, Anxiety, Tourettes and others diseases. It helps control involuntary movement, language or thinking by relaxing muscles and mind. For example, my friends who had acute Anxiety disorder was always having several random Anxiety episodes. He would take some pills to calm himself down, but the pills would not help him. As his Anxiety episodes were getting severe his private Physician prescribed him medicinal marijuana. Since the first day he smoked marijuana he has been able to control his Anxiety episodes and live a normal life.  People believe marijuana would decrease crime and would create a better economy. If marijuana could be legalized completely, gangs and organize crime groups would not have marijuana to traffic with, and all the money wasted to stop them would be used in other ways.  Additionally, it would create jobs and the economy would increase.  People don’t see marijuana as an illegal drug, but as medicine and economy of the future.

On the other hand, marijuana can be dangerous for a person life because it had depressant effects, and causes mental problems like decrease mental orientation and alertness. Smoking marijuana can cause respiratory diseases like cancer, or other respiratory issues.  People who are under the marijuana influence have decreased orientation, interaction, reason, and slow to response. For example, I have a friend who used to smoked marijuana almost every day. When he was under the influence or “high” he was slow to respond and his orientation was compromised. He was not able to make rational decisions, focus and he was always in trouble. Consequently, he became addicted to marijuana, and gradually he started using other sources of drugs because marijuana was not a strong stimulant anymore. Slowly he become lost in drugs and he loose family, friends and education. Additionally, legalizing marijuana would only give free access to drug dealers to manipulate marijuana for their own benefit.

Today, the use of marijuana has been a controversial topic for many years, and is a topic with multiple opinions. People strongly believe marijuana has helped millions, and could help more if legalized, but at the same time it has kill, and lead to drug addiction too millions. I believe Legislation should pass a law prohibiting public selling of marijuana, and should be only used if prescribed by a Physician.  People should understand that marijuana is a drug with multiple depressant effects and should only be used with extreme caution, and under medical supervision. Marijuana is a drug that can control a person life and how we want to control a drug if the drug controls us?