Banning of Marijuana

Now smokers don’t have a place to smoke, because smoking has caused humans and environments lots of harmful effects. Even more so of marijuana; there is no doubt of its illegalization. “There are many people who do not want the legalization of marijuana. They point to the drawbacks that marijuana has. There are the concerns that legalization can make marijuana more available for abuse, especially by children” (Roth, 2008, para.12). Thus, marijuana doesn’t help anything to humans and it should be banned from our society.

I will argue in this paper that marijuana causes bad influence to humans and societies. People should be concerned about direct and indirect problems of marijuana.

Marijuana has harmful effects directly. First, people who use marijuana regularly suffer the results of getting the illness like smoking problems. The nicotine of marijuana causes lots of health damage. For example, the leaders of medicine say that cigarette or marijuana smokers can get respiratory problems, lung or liver cancer, difficulty breathing, heart problems, and pregnancy disease (Institute of Medicine, 2000). Second, moreover, marijuana might expose children and youths to dangerous situations. Usually young people cannot refuse easily the kind of temptation of marijuana. If children and youths can be addicted to marijuana, they will fail their whole lives. For example, “Those who use cannabis at an early age at greater risk of hard drug use later in life. The researchers emphasize that the prevention of cannabis use by adolescents is a key to effective prevention of hard drug use later in life” (VU University Amsterdam, n. d. para. 1). Therefore, marijuana causes damage to human’s physical and psychological health; people should prohibit use of marijuana.

Marijuana has harmful effects indirectly. First, people who are addicted to marihuana can connect with crimes, because marijuana gives humans indistinct judgment. For example, areas of legal marijuana like Amsterdam have increased crimes and strongly addicted people (Roth, 2008). Second, marijuana depletes the immune system of the human body, which causes illness to transfer from person to person, or bring about other new diseases. For example, “Smoking marijuana regularly can damage the cells in the bronchial passages which protect the body against inhaled microorganisms and decrease the ability of the immune cells in the lungs to fight off fungi, bacteria, and tumor cells. For patients with already weakened immune systems, this means an increase in the possibility of dangerous pulmonary infections, including pneumonia, which often proves fatal in AIDS patients” (Tashkin, n. d. para. 5). Therefore, marijuana brings lots of disasters; people should forbid legalization of marijuana.

In conclusion, marijuana exerts lots of bad infections to users and their societies. People can get direct nicotine diseases and addictions. Also, every person can be affected indirectly by crime or infectious disease. Therefore, people should ban marijuana and make asound and stable society.

Reference:

Institute of Medicine. (2000). Marijuana as Medicine? The science behind the controversy. The National Academies Press. Retrieved on July 29, 2008, from http://tinyurl.com/6q8re9

Roth, R. (2008, Jan. 17). Medical Marijuana. Retrieved on July 29, 2008, from http://serendip.brynmawr.edu/exchange/node/1901

Tashkin, D. (n. d.). The medical dangers of marijuana use. Cyber Law, Harvard. Retrieved on July 29, 2008, from http://tinyurl.com/ysanqh

VU University Amsterdam (n. d.). Stay away from cannabis. Retrieved on July 29, 2008, from http://tinyurl.com/59vmrs