Agape Life

First of all, I need to start off by saying that this is NOT an expository, argumentative, or persuasive essay to sway people’s opinions about cannabis usage. I have limited word space, so only SOME of the MANY facts about why cannabis should continue to be illegal will be covered. 

 

With that being said, why are cigarette smokers considered pariahs, while people smoking cannabis are praised? This is despite the fact that “potheads” are almost universally recognized as unmotivated, low class, degenerate, smelly failures. Even the ones that get somewhere in life usually turn out to be average. 

 

Time to bust a few fallacies with facts. The most common fallacy is: “When have you heard of cannabis killing anybody?” The answer is, every day. Every day people use cannabis and get into car accidents, commit suicide, commit deviant acts and kill other people because of the drug. When people state that they are smokers, NOT drinkers, that doesn’t mean they don’t drink. It just means they have fewer drinks. 

 

Drunk driving overrides everything! With a person being able to go over the legal limit after 1(one single can of) beer, coroners will blame any accident on inebriation. Toxicology reports won’t include THC once they have found something to point a finger at. Coroners will only be thorough in their report if your name is Michael Brown, and you’re an African American in Ferguson, Missouri. They “found new evidence” of THC in Michael Brown’s system and stated if he hadn’t been under the influence then the situation could have been peacefully resolved. [Read the updates.]

 

Just because you smoke cannabis doesn’t mean you are immune to lung cancer. As a matter of fact, cannabis smoke contains 50% to 70% more cancer-causing substances than tobacco smoke. Cannabis is extremely addictive for most people. Some people need to smoke before they go to work in the morning, on their lunch break, and after work like it’s a meal. People become dependent on cannabis because now they smoke and are no longer able to get the regular “high” that they are used to, so they have to smoke more in order to achieve that “high.” 

 

Chronic cannabis abuse can lead to brain changes resembling schizophrenia. [There you go! A cure for cancer and HIV!!!] You will no longer have cancer or HIV because you won’t even know who you are anymore. 

 

Dr. Drew Pinsky said, “It would be malpractice to say that cannabis isn’t addictive.” 

“Potheads” are dependent on cannabis. They “fiend” for it, steal it, and kill for it. Don’t believe me? Do you really have to wonder why those two 16-year-old kids were shot at 1 o’clock in the morning at Saunders Elementary School (N.N)? Because they were trading Yu-Gi-Oh cards and it was a bad trade? [Sure, Bob.]

 

In conclusion, movies portray “potheads” as harmless, fun-loving people who spend their time giggling and munching on Cheetos. They need to show these same people when they’re flunking out of school, losing their jobs, frustrated because they can’t concentrate, or losing the love of their lives because they just don’t want to be with a pot-smoking loser anymore.