People who are in support of the prohibition against marijuana claim that the drug is unhealthy and dangerous. Yet the two most deadly drugs in America, alcohol and tobacco, are legal and regulated. Those two drugs are more addictive and deadly than marijuana. It would be best to legalize marijuana and control it in the same manner as alcohol and tobacco. Alcohol contributes to 41,000 fatal accidents a year; worldwide alcohol is the cause for four percent of all deaths, more than AIDS and violence (Armentano, 2012, para.
statistically there are 480,000 deaths annually caused by smoking cigarettes. Tobacco should be outlawed because of the dangerous health risk it causes. Originally, Tobacco has a history with the americas. Mayan Indians of Mexico carved drawings in stone showing tobacco use. Native Americans used tobacco for religious and medical reasons, they did not use it everyday.
DEBATE PAPER CONS OF LEGALIZING RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA NILSA NUNEZ BCOM/275 03/16/2015 MARK TROLLINGER In this week Team “A†debated the cons associated with the legalization of recreational Marijuana. The majority of the disadvantages discussed between team members were facts related to the health and mental side effects of its prolonged use. According to an article by the Harvard public school of health, some health experts worry about the personal and public health impacts that may come with more widespread use of the drug. Dr. Eden Evins, a Harvard psychiatry professor, and director of the Center for Addiction Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital explained the biochemical effects of cannabis on the central nervous system. Professor Evins warned that smoking marijuana overstimulates naturally occurring cannabinoid receptors in the brain, which are located in high-density areas that influence memory, thinking, concentration, movement, coordination and sensory and time perception.
Analysis on “Is Cannabis Really That Bad?” When most people hear the word “cannabis” or “marijuana” they think of drugs, but what most people do not think of is, is medicine. It has been found that cannabis can be used to treat certain kinds of diseases. Either way, its use in the past couple of years has increased greatly in the United States. Over the past sixteen years twenty-three states and DC have legalized the use of medical marijuana. Many people have a lot of different opinions on whether or not it should be legalized, but as time goes on it seems as if more and more people approve of it.
Many people die every year and others suffering from cancer due to smoking. According to The NHS Information Centre report (2010), Around 81,400 deaths (18% of all deaths of adults aged 35 and over) were estimated to be caused by smoking. That’s shows how big the issue of smoking in the UK and in the others developed countries. The governments try to minimize the problem by legislation. Jean King, Cancer Research UK's director of tobacco control, (2008) said: "The smoke-free law was introduced to protect the health of workers from the harmful effects of secondhand smoke.
Prohibition versus Legalizing Medical Marijuana The use of alternative therapy is often criticized due to the lack of scientific testing and results in a strong argument of safety and efficacy. Studies show that forty percent of the general public is using some form of Complimentary Alternative Medicine (CAM) (Annas). Medical marijuana is also termed as alternative medicine, unconventional, complementary or integrative (Annas). The use of marijuana for medicinal purposes is gaining momentum because doctors have been prescribing medicinal marijuana to treat pain, nausea, severe weight loss, and vomiting which are side effects associated with chemotherapy and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Fifteen states have approved the use of medical marijuana.
“Medical Marijuana is an Insult to Our Intelligence” This opinion piece, written by Charles Lane, starts off with the author describing how the Justice Department is dealing with people who smoke or sell pot. The article not only has statistical points but also the authors own opinion and humor. The author believes that although marijuana is a blessing for terminally ill patients, it does not have the ability to calm oneself. He explains the testing drugs must go through to meet Drug Administration to get his point through. Reading this article, I also find defense cases about medical marijuana.
The American people overwhelmingly support the medical use of marijuana and Eighteen States have medical marijuana laws and several more are currently working on medical marijuana legislation. Clearly, the light has been seen by the sick people of America because 2 states have completely legalized it for recreational use just like alcohol. Obviously there will be driving laws and public intoxication laws as there should be. Being stoned in public isn’t good for a person’s image anyway. Once the Judges, Governors, senators and every other political officials have come to an agreement on the controversy, I feel America will become a much healthier, smellier, safer place.
That is more deaths than the combined total for HIV, illegal drug use, alcohol use, motor vehicle injuries, suicides, and murders. The American Cancer Society’s chairman John R. Seffrin said, “The most preventable cause of death in our society is tobacco.” According to the World Health Organization, cancers are the first killers of human beings, and 70% of cancers are related to lung cancer caused by smoking cigarettes. In America, 23.1% of men, which is 24.8 million, are smokers, and 18.3% of women, which is 21.1 million, are smokers. Over one billion people smoke cigarettes regularly. In the world, 5.4 million people died of smoking cigarettes in 2010.
But the thought of making the production and sale of cigarettes illegal is a more recent belief. I have come to this conclusion because I do not believe that people will stop using cigarettes just because of the health risks that are well publicized and well known. Some of these statistics are given in a very bold way by the National Institute on Drug Abuse: “Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Between 1964 and 2004, cigarette smoking caused an estimated 12 million deaths, including 4.1 million deaths from cancer, 5.5 million deaths from cardiovascular diseases, 1.1 million deaths from respiratory diseases, and 94,000 infant deaths related to mothers smoking during pregnancy.1 According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), cigarette smoking results in more than 443,000 deaths in the United States each year – about one in every five U.S. Deaths – and an additional 8.6 million people suffer with a serious illness caused by smoking.