Essay On Legalizing Marijuana

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While there is a ton of pros to legalizing marijuana there are also cons. Although I may be for the legalization I am still not one hundred percent convinced that it is perfect. One major concern is the lack of any real recorded long term marijuana effects on the population. Since marijuana was just recently legalized fully we haven’t been able to really see how this will affect the health of the population. Before it was legalized it was second in substance dependencies. Also there are still a lot of doctors sceptical on marijuana and it’s. Some think it could be very beneficial while others still see it as extremely harmful. Another major concern is the ability of minors to obtain marijuana. With all of the new forms of

There is also a contamination risk with selling marijuana. They have found things like mold, mildew, E. coli, and salmonella in marijuana. There has actually been reported deaths from contaminated Marijuana. One article by R Hamadeh reports that a 34 year old man who was admitted to the hospital for Leukemia ended up having extreme symptoms which caused his death. Upon later investigation they had discovered that he had been smoking Marijuana very heavily weeks prior to his admission. They ended up testing the Marijuana he was smoking and ended up finding out that the Marijuana was not clean and had fungus growing on it. This caused the man to get Aspergillosis which is an infection you get from inhaling certain fungi. The Aspergillosis from the Marijuana is what ended up causing his death, not the leukemia. There are multiple articles about CBS stated in their article “How safe is Colorado’s legalized Marijuana?” that the federal government has stated that they will not be testing marijuana for consumers since marijuana is still illegal at a federal level. The FDA would usually take it into their own hands to make sure almost any product Americans consume is safe excluding Marijuana. This means that testing

In 2012 Marijuana possession crimes in Denver was one-thousand five-hundred or so. This saw a decline in the years to come with with 2013 only having six-hundred accounts of possession related crimes, and 2014 having even less with only three-hundred. However while the possession rate was high in 2012 the public display or consumption was at only eight. In 2013 they would see a rise of about two-hundred accounts, however once Marijuana was legalized there was a massive increase bring the accounts up to nine-hundred. It seems to me like the reason possession fell in 2014 was due to the fact that you were legally allowed to carry a certain amount of Marijuana on your person. The legalization ended up leading to more people being caught smoking out in public and in