Usually a person who is against marijuana doesn't know the facts involved. The thing with marijuana is its illegal therefore it's not widely tested. Marijuana is safer than alcohol and tobacco. Marijuana and tobacco contain about the same amount of carcinogens; however, tobacco is 90% more addictive. A heavy tobacco user will smoke more than heavy marijuana users. Marijuana is less addictive than caffeine. Marijuana is usually smoked unfiltered because waterpipes like water bongs (smoking devices which the smoke travels through water) are illegal if they contain marijuana residue. These waterpipes eliminate some carcinogens. Also, smokeless marijuana products have no carcinogens. Some examples of smokeless marijuana products consist of tea, brownies and many more. Alcohol is also more harmful then marijuana. If enough alcohol is consumed it can kill. To overdose on alcohol you need to consume 4 to 10 times more than your blood alcohol level of being intoxicated. !

verdosing is being 40,000 times over the limit of being under the influence. 5000 people die of alcohol abuse a year. No one has ever died of smoking marijuana. (http://www.drugtext.org/sub/marmyt1.html)

In spite of what is said about marijuana many people feel it's receiving a bad

Marijuana Prohibition has led to the same problems an increase in crime, violence and

A myth of marijuana is loss of short-term memory. Which is true but miss leading. Any impairment of short-term memory disappears when one is no longer under the influence of marijuana. Another myth is that Marijuana is a gateway drug, or leads to harder drugs like cocaine and heroin, but the reverse is true. The Dutch have had marijuana legalized since the 1970s. Since then cocaine and heroin use have declined substantially. (http://www.drugtext.org/sub/marmyt1.html)

Marijuana is legal to use for medical purposes in California, Nevada, and Alaska as of Tuesday November 7,2000. Also not only was marijuana legalized for medical purposes the penalty for possession was reduced to rehab. On Tuesday November 7, 2000 in Alaska the vote for marijuana being legalized was lost. "Politics is perception, and the perception up to this point is that voters want tougher and tougher drug policies," said Bill Zimmerman, executive directo

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