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Picture a young adult in his late teens lying on a cold, dry, medal slab dead from an alcohol overdose. Now imagine a boy or girl roughly the same age, smoking, or eating marijuana and living to see another day. Why should a drug as deadly as alcohol be legal, when a much safer drug, marijuana, is illegal? I think that marijuana should be legalized and alcohol should be illegal.Many rumors have circulated about the harmful health factors of "weed". Speculations include: the deterioration of brain cells, cancer of the lungs, cause of birth defects, impotence in males, and lower intelligence levels. Most of these factors are not proven. Scientific studies of this drug prove inconclusive results. Actually, not much study has been done on marijuana to prove or disprove these theories. Now more than ever, there are even more experiments and advances involving marijuana to find out the side effects of this drug. Alcohol on the other hand, has been proven to deteriorate the liver and is a depressant that slows down heart and brain activity. Alcohol can even poison the bloodstream to the extent of death. Marijuana, alone, has been proven not to kill one of its users. The word of the majority is that "weed" c
auses cancer, but studies prove that the only victims of this death were also cigarette smokers or other tobacco users. Not only are there harmful speculations about weed, but there are healthy examples too. Some hippies have documented that weed is good for the eyesight. That is also a theory that has had limited experimental evidence backing it up. Some theories include: marijuana opens the capillaries of the lungs, and is a much more cleaner, lighter smoke than tobacco smoke. Since the limited amount of studies these theories can not be proven without a reasonable doubt the findings are just skeptical. Alcohol is proven to be healthy, if taken at a slight daily amount. Scientists say a certain quantity of red wine a day reduces the risk of heart disease. Both of these drugs do some harm, and have some benefits to a person's health, but witch drug effects the motor skills and decision making process more. When under the influence of marijuana the affected person does have a slower reaction time, but so does a person that has consumed any amount of alcohol. When a person has a high amount of alcohol in their bloodstream, their motor senses are slowed greatly. The poisoned victim has a higher pain tolerance, which creates a
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