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When people hear the word marijuana, the first thing they think about is it is illegal and all the bad that can come out of it. Marijuana is classified as a drug because it alters the state of mind of a person. what is a drug. Marijuana is seen as an addictive drug by many people in the world but this is not true. The thought is that if someone starts using it that they will not be able to stop. This is not true.  Cigarettes have a drug in them called nicotine that causes people to become addicted and demand more of the drug. Studies have proven that marijuana is not an addictive drug sould be legal. But yet one of the top reasons that people say they have never tried marijuana is because they don’t want to become addicted not addictive. It has been estimated that around 90 million kids have tried to use marijuana illegally by the age of 12 who uses it. The most common way a person will use the drug is in a joint, bowl, or pipe how it's used. People don’t often think about it, but using the drug the wrong way can really hurt someone. If the drug is smoked with other substances then the drug itself, it can do some real damage then is intended to the person. I think that the public is misinformed about the drug marijuana and I am going to clear up some ideas about it. Marijuana is like cigarettes in that you can get lung cancer from it. The cancer has nothing to do with tar that you would get from cigarettes but yet just the inhaling of the smoke will give it to you. Smoking marijuana has no greater risk than that of smoking or dipping. marijuana facts/. Compared to other illegal drugs used by people in the U.S., marijuana has some of the least affects that it can cause a person. Compared to other illegal drugs like cocaine and heroin, the effects on a human are minor at most Brain on drugs. Smoking weed will give the smoker cotton mouth and will increase the person’s heart rate. The mind altering state of mind that the drug puts on people when they smoke it is almost no different than the way alcohol makes a person feel after four of five drinks effects.  I think that marijuana would have numerous advantages if it was ever legalized in the U.S... Marijuana could bring economic growth, medical benefits, and even be used as an alternative fuel source Benefits . In the late 70s, a bill was brought to congress to try to decriminalize the use of marijuana and make it legal. The thought was that if it was made legal, then less people would try to use the drug. An estimated 12 million people today use the drug and abuse it almost daily people who use it . Huge amounts of the drug are illegal trafficked over the boarder every day to try to keep up with the demand of the illegal drug. Every year around 400 million tons of cargo are brought to the United States and a tenth of that is thought to be illegal drugs drug trafficking . Gangs and drug cartels cause people to risk their lives in illegally transporting the drugs into our country for the purpose of selling drug cartels .Not only do people risk their lives in transporting the illegal goods into our country, they waste our money when they are caught and have to be arrested. When an illegal citizen is caught in our country, tax dollars have to be used to either send that person to jail or to ship them back across the border. Three out of every five arrests in the country have to do with the possession of illegal drugs, and 2 two out of those three arrests are thought to be related to the use of marijuana. If the drug was legal, huge amounts of money would be able to be saved help the economy . The topic of legalizing marijuana has been a huge debate in California over the past few years. In 1996, the drug was legalized in California for medical use only legal in California. Marijuana has been known for thousands of years to have special powers in the medical field. The drug helps the body in a physical way and a spiritual way. It has be proven to help with nausea, pain relief and appetite How it helps . The drug has even helps in the area of relaxing people and fixing social problems as well has benefit the autonomic nervous system Benifits to nervous system.The governor of California himself has looked at legalizing the drug for recreational use. He has encouraged large scale studies to the drug to be done so it can be seen if it will be able to be legalized urges a study . Coming up this fall for the first time ever, voters in California will have the chance to vote on whether they think marijuana should be legalized. The drug is going to be seen the same was as alcohol and its distribution and buying is going to be monitored. An age limit of 21 is going to be implemented and it is hoped that it is going to have a huge impact on our economy. Legalization . If this drug was legalized it could play a huge role in helping our economy gain strength back. Just like tobacco helped our economy a long time ago, marijuana could do the same thing. Helping the U.S. . Thousands of jobs could be created by the farming that it would require to make the marijuana. The government would be able to control at what age it could be bought and they would be able to tax it. No clear numbers are certain because the distribution of weed is illegal as of now, but it is estimated that if marijuana was legalized and taxed, it could bring somewhere in the range of 30 billion dollars a year for the government Taxing . Not only can the government benefit from the taxes from the selling of it, but also from other countries the import the drug into our country. I myself would like to say that I have never smoked marijuana before, but I still think that it should be legalized because of the benefits that it brings.