Marijuana

Dear Kathy Dahlkemper,

I honestly think that marijuana should be illegal. There are way too many harmful side effects that come along with it. I don't understand why people need to use such a dangerous substance. All your doing is killing yourself a little more everyday. Marijuana effects your heart, brain, lungs, and it also causes anxiety. If you smoke regularly you're pretty much deteriorating away your brain and everything else. It not only affects you, but your family and friends as well. You become less motivated and more lazy. Your goals completely go down the drain if you continue to smoke marijuana. You start doing less activities, and going any where. You become a different person and you don't even know it. It's just sad when you have all these goals you want to accomplish and peer pressure, or something else gets in the way. Then you become hooked and it's hard to quit. I still think that people will continue to use marijuana whether it is legalized or not, they always find a way. I also think that police need to start cracking down on more kids, because what they are doing is wrong and they deserve to suffer the consequence. By legalizing marijuana teenagers won't have a chance to gain back what they really want to be. They will be headed in the wrong direction of life. Their future holds nothing, but failure. If you continue to use marijuana you may also start to take other drugs as well. That's not a very wise choice. I really do believe it is becoming more popular than ever. Many teens are experimenting and not thinking at the time. They are being pressured into trying new things. They are afraid that they won't fit in and if they just do this "one thing" they think they'll become cool. I think that it is addictive, although others will argue that it isn't. If you keep continuing to do it and crave it, you're becoming dependent on that substance, which is wrong. Why do people need another product legalized when we already have cigarettes and alcohol? There just as bad. If anything we should try and stop the growth of marijuana. Teenagers need to start realizing that marijuana isn't anything but harmful. Sure you may feel high for a while, but is it worth all those side effects? People need to start caring about their health and their future. If you legalize marijuana more people will buy this product and it will cause more health problems, many people will become low lifes if they aren't already one. Legalizing marijuana is also going against other people's morals. A lot of people are against marijuana and see no good from it. The only reason that I think people should use marijuana is for medical conditions only, yet I still think it's wrong.