Why Should Marijuana Stay Illegal?
Why Marijuana Can Be Bad For You, The People and The Economy Our side has a concession. Marijuana is not an awful drug. Comparatively, it has few bad effects on the human body, and in some cases, admittedly, it can be medically useful or socially acceptable. However, it's not something that should be legalised. Heavy marijuana intake has been shown to slow motor and neuro functions severely short term, and to a lesser but still notable extent long term, under several extensive studies by: Johannes G Ramaekers, Gerhold Kauert, Peter van Ruitenbeek, Eef L Theunissen, Erhard Schneider and Manfred R Moeller. Which were funded by: The Legal Medical Research Departments of Frankfurt University and the Maastricht University in The Netherlands. Marijuana has been proven to double the chance of schizophrenia, Dr. Serge Sevy, an associate professor of psychiatry at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City, looked at 100 patients between the ages of 16 and 40 with schizophrenia, half of whom smoked marijuana. Sevy and colleagues found that among the marijuana users, 75% had begun smoking before the onset of schizophrenia and that their disease appeared about two years earlier than in those who did not use the drug. From this it's clear there is a link between marijuana and schizophrenia, and whether it be the fact that the lifestyle that marijuana users would have is the real factor in introducing schizophrenia, the obvious truth is that introducing marijuana to the public would increase the amount of people who take up that lifestyle and therefore increase the number of people who get schizophrenia. The usual form of ingesting marijuana is through smoking, which, as we all know is abhorrent to the lungs and the biggest cause for lung cancer worldwide. Again, it's not the fact that marijuana itself causes massive adverse health affects, but the fact that the problems it brings with it, the 'weed culture' will damage people and society