Pubdate: Fri, 04 May 2012
Source: Herald News, The (Fall River, MA)
Copyright: 2012 The Herald News
Contact:  http://www.heraldnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3604
Author: Jason Kell

IT'S TIME TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA

I am writing about the legalization of marijuana. I think marijuana 
should be legalized because even though it's illegal, people are 
still going to buy and use it anyway. I have never heard of someone 
dying due to the use of smoking marijuana.

More people have died using other drugs like crack, cocaine and 
alcohol. Alcohol causes more than 25,000 deaths a year in either 
traffic accidents or from other related causes.

Marijuana might cause other problems but nothing compared to any 
other type of drug. There are more than 29,000 recorded deaths 
related to drugs like meth, crack, cocaine, ecstasy and alcohol.

Marijuana does affect your reflexes but not as much as drinking 
alcohol would. Marijuana doesn't cause cancers like smoking 
cigarettes does. Cigarettes cause throat, lung and kidney cancers and 
are way more harmful than smoking marijuana.

Overall, if they legalize marijuana it won't be the one greatest 
thing to happen, but it would show marijuana isn't as bad as all the 
other drugs.

Jason Kell

Fall River
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