Recently I read a news article about marijuana called Effective Therapy or Bad Medicine. In this article it talked about how some people depend on marijuana use everyday because of certain conditions they have to live with, like Don LaRouche of Madison he is a patient who uses marijuana to ease pressure on his eyes caused by glaucoma (a disease that badly affects the optic nerve) and also to help relax his muscle spasms. People are questioning weather this should stay legalized in Maine or not. I do not think it should be continued to be legalized because it could be badly abused. Not everyone prescribed this would abuse it but you know for sure that somebody would and prescriber's don’t want this to happen. If this was legalized I think the illicit trafficking rates would defiantly rise.
Some people may argue and say that marijuana isn’t as bad as some of the other drugs out there, well even though that may be true, marijuana still has some harmful affects like; Impaired thinking, mood, memory, and coordination, damage brain cells (they control thinking, emotion, pleasure, coordination, memory, mood), the pituitary gland is also damaged which regulates hunger, blood pressure, thirst, sexual behavior, release of sex hormones, it can speed up the heartbeat as much as 50%,increase the blood pressure, also causes sleepy looking, bloodshot eyes with dilated pupils, irritates membranes of the esophagus and increases chance of developing cancer of larynx and esophagus, Marijuana smoke has twice as much "tar" as cigarette smoke and significantly increases chance of lung cancer, inflammation, infection, there are so many different possibilities but worst of all you could become addicted. These are all really harmful affects, would you want any of this to happen to you or someone you care about?
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