Legalizing marijuana
...llowed to smoke marijuana in a restaurant? This would be completely embarrassing to our society and the US. One argument made to defend the legalization of marijuana is that it is an all natural substance. This is true but so are a lot of drugs that we have in the world today and some of them are extremely dangerous to your health. Although marijuana is not deadly to your health immediately it can be in the long run and does not need to be made legal. Not only is it just bad to smoke marijuana when looked at by society but it has health affects also. Besides the fact that marijuana smokers will miss more sick days of work because of respiratory illnesses, it also affects a lot of different parts of the body. Another reason to defend marijuana is because it does cause increases in pleasure, but it also causes memory problems, loss of coordination, and many other bad affects to the body. It was studied that a user’s risk of heart attacks more than quadruples in the first hour of smoking marijuana. Another big risk of smoking is that it impairs the body’s ability to fight off in...