Arguments contre le Cannabis (document en anglais)

Even if the marijuana's effects seem less dangerous than other substances, it's on the list of narcotics and this is a real drug. Cannabis may increase reaction time and could be very dangerous when a person is driving. However, cannabis could also bring about hallucinations and anxiety disorders. Moreover, a study shows that with time, marijuana might destroy neurons and thus reduce intellectual capacity of its consumers. Some people will say that alcohol can also cause these problems, but this is not a reason to legalize cannabis. In fact, I think that's too late to do something against alcohol and tobacco for example.

Cannabis is may be not really dangerous for health, but it represents an activity a person does when he is bored instead of doing useful things such as reading, doing social activities or improving his knowledge.

On a more personal note, when I learn that someone smokes cannabis, I can see a person who is in the margins of our society, who wants that the world changes, but won't do anything by himself because he is too busy with smoking weeds.

Most of people think that a plant couldn't be dangerous for a person because this is "natural" instead of a medicine which is made of "chemical" substances. This is a behavior that must be change in the mind of people because there are an exceptional amount of plants which are harmful for health (some mushrooms can kill someone less than an hour).

I think this is a debate with no sense, because of course, we can prove that cannabis is not worse for health than alcohol, but nobody has ever shown that this is more effective than other usual medicine. In addition, this is too late to do something against the scourge of alcohol or cigarette, but not for the consumption of marijuana. So, why should we legalize something that we don't know the real impact it could have on our society ? In any case, it couldn't have a positive repercussion on it. In fact, some people say that it should stop the illegal traffic of this plant. But a study shown that wherever the cannabis was decriminalized, bands have taken traffics from other more dangerous substances as ecstasy or cocaine. Indeed, teenagers are more curious for illegal things and will not consume cannabis anymore, but will try other kind of drugs, more dangerous.

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