Many people debate if marijuana is an herb or a drug/poison, but since early 2001 marijuana was legalized which provided a set regulations towards legal access to marijuana. The restrictions for the uses of marijuana are that only allowed to be used with a license prescribed by a doctor and can be only used for medical purposes. Marijuana is known for paralyzing the pain and treats many diseases. Marijuana can also only be prescribed for 90 days by a doctor. Its uses are mainly treating migraines, inflammatory diseases, cancer, fibromyalgia (a medical disorder that spread pains into muscles) and other related diseases. Canada is also one of the first country to legalize marijuana, but because of this decision, more cons outweighs the pros. For instance, legalizing marijuana can send a message to devolving young that is right to smoke because is not against the law. Crime rates and recreational usage of marijuana can also dramatically increase since there is less protective law against it. A lot of our tax money also goes in to healthcare and marijuana is part of that system. Marijuana is a negative impact towards the media, society and economy and the final decision should be reconsider for more possibilities of changes.
The laws and restrictions for marijuana have been taken too lightly since the legalizing of marijuana. Many people are abusing and taking advantage of the abandment of illegal use of marijuana. One example of people taking advantage is now more recreational use of marijuana have increased compared to when it was still illegal. By 2001, teens under 18 had increased by 67% compared to the years of 1960s. Illegal grow operations have also increase since 2005, police alone in Canada have discovered 15,000 illegal grow operations and over one million dollars of electricity stolen. There is also a fear and concern that illegal trafficking to other countries especially America, since they’re our neighbour.
To grow marijuana there is a lot of our tax income to grow it, considering all the costs. Marijuana cost an average of $7100 per grams in Canada’s health care programs and total cost for marijuana per year can total up to 45 billion to 110 billion dollars. If our money goes into funding marijuana then many other beneficial cares like educational funding, other health cares products. In my opinion, I personally don’t think is unfair we have to pay taxes that fund marijuana, is almost similar to tobacco.
Many teens in our generations are convinced easily with media, advertisement or what adults introduce to them. The legalization of marijuana is also a negative impact to developing teens who are just being educated about drugs and addictions. This can send teenagers an opposite side of what the educators are trying to teach. Some teenagers might think that marijuana is a good thing because is not illegal, teenagers can get the information from our media or from our peers and get the wrong idea. Some people also think marijuana is a “gateway” drug that gets you addicted and you could start getting in stronger or worse drugs. This can also cause an increase in recreational use of marijuana or even other drugs. From recreational use, it can also cause crimes rates to up rise slowly. Illegalizing marijuana is like a message sent from the government that it’s harmless, acceptable and may even think beneficial.
Smoking 3 marijuana cigarettes is the equivalent of smoking 20 tobacco cigarette, what makes tobacco so toxic are found in marijuana, but a much larger amount. Research shows whoever is under the influence of marijuana is more likely to be a car accident. Patients discover that trying to quit smoking marijuana cause loss of appetite, stomach problem, nervousness and other series of side effects. Smoking marijuana can cause your heart to pump 20 to 50 times faster and cause blood pressure to drop at a dangerously low state. Low blood pressure in your body can cause a heart an attack, in fact marijuana smokers are four times more likely to get a heart attack.
Marijuana is a negative impact to our future and will cause further more damage if we don’t reconsider the fact that it should be illegalize once again. This would only cause more of an increase towards crime rates, illegal recreational usage and abuse. The cost for supporting marijuana is too great and other beneficial utilities can be funded without the many risk we face. Legalizing it would only cause our teenagers to fall out of their education and risk them getting the wrong message being sent. As well, why sacrifice your body for something so dangerous. When you think about the legalization of marijuana, think about the future and think positive for yourself.