* Is use of marijuana safer than alcohol? To say that marijuana has been given a bad rap over the past few decades is an understatement. If you’re like most Americans, you have been led to believe that marijuana is a dangerous and addictive drug that has destroyed the lives of millions of teens and adults. You have been encouraged to believe that marijuana causes lung cancer and is a “gateway” to harder drugs. The government has even tried to convince you that most people who use marijuana are losers who sit around on couches all day doing nothing.
The use of drugs such as cocaine, crack, heroin and marijuana has been proved to cause unbelievable damage and harm to the body and brain. In the Article “Info Facts-Heroin” reports that thousands of heroin addicts die from overdoses each year and heroin users are also at great risk of getting aids from the use of unclean needles. By legalizing drugs every one would have the right to consume drugs without any restrictions which would lead hospitals to be more filled, more school dropouts would occur, and more crack babies raise the stakes of legalizing drugs. Knowing what drugs do to users has been the solid basis for my saying no to drugs and why I believe they should not be
Many experts will also tell you second hand smoking is more dangerous than first hand, because of the unfiltered smoke containing 50 more cancerous substances than filtered cigarette smoke. The individuals affected by second hand smoke are the most tragic. These people reap the consequences of a dangerous habit they made no decision to partake
The first step to banning drugs was the Pure Food and Drug Act. This required patent medicines to label all of the ingredients in their products. Many of the smaller businesses were bankrupted because of this act but over hundreds of thousands of addicts remained. Companies like Coca-Cola almost were shut down because they didn’t want to stop putting Cocaine into their product (Johnson). The next step to banning drugs was the Heroin Tax Act.
The 18th amendment contributed to the rise of organized crime because it created a lot of underground business. From killings to people living in poverty, that’s what the prohibition caused. If people really thought that prohibiting alcohol to be sold leally were going to help the way that people lived during this time, they were wrong. A lot of people were against the law, they argued that if they banned alcohol legal businesses were going to go broke and that was not going to help the economy get better. But alcohol was not the only thing breaking families apart they said, after the war, soldiers would come home and find themselves in a whole, struggling to find jobs.
A county that have most fracking is now more polluted than Los Angeles. Doctors also said because of fracking the cancer rate in people is increasing. People can’t be treated because the substances used in fracking are unknown. One the biggest losses are the substances used for fracking are kept unknown from people and even from workers working in these factories. Because they are hazardous.
Running Head: Texas smoking bans are unconstitutional Texas smoking bans are unconstitutional Elizabeth Gibson Tarleton State University Elizabeth Gibson Texas smoking bans are unconstitutional In a heart-rending blow to the rabidly anti-tobacco Toledo Blade and the anti-tobacco operatives who shriek for prohibition, the city of Wauseon voted not to impose a smoking ban on restaurants and bars. Despite a recount showing that the margin of those voting no to prohibition had increased meaning that over fifty percent of the people didn't want something, this operative plans to take her demands again to the city council. Although she should be shown the door since the voters have clearly spoken, she will relentlessly clutter
Smoking doesn’t make you cool or feel cool. In reality it’s smelly, it’s disgusting and it kills. Smoking cigarettes has the highest death rate in America today. As Brue Lee would say, I’m not this world to live up to peer pressure’s expectations; I am only here to live up to my own. So we decided to quit, well at least try to quit.
Marijuana can have dras-tic effects on the American culture medically and economically. Being outlawed in most of the states, it has since been falsely accused with having many negative side-effects... almost none being scientifically proven. It causes a knowledgeable person to wonder why marijuana is kept prohibited, while harmful substances such as alcohol and tobacco are kept legal and supported by the government. Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking.
Smoking is detrimental to people’s health and wellbeing causing physical, mental and social issues. Toxins in tobacco can travel anywhere in the body that blood flows causing damage to nearly every organ and system (Australia. Department of health and Ageing 2012). It has been scientifically proven that smokers have significantly increased risks of heart disease, numerous cancers, stroke, emphysema and respiratory diseases (Australia. Department of health and Ageing 2012).