problems for legalization. Whether a marijuana user will want to experiment with harder and more serious drugs is unknown. Further experimentation among drugs really depends on the personality and type of user. Most marijuana users only experiment as far as marijuana and alcohol, but there are a percentage of people that do go on to harder drugs. The National Institute On Drug Abuse produced information on their website, Marijuana: Facts For Teens, stating, “To better determine this risk, scientists are examining the possibility that long-term marijuana use may create changes in the brain that make a person more at risk of becoming addicted to other drugs, such as alcohol or cocaine. While not all young people who use marijuana go on to use other drugs, further research is needed to predict who will be at greatest risk” (Marijuana: Facts For Teens).Today, marijuana is getting closer to legalization. With states starting to legalize it for medicinal purposes, marijuana may soon be compared to a casual days cigarette. Even though many test are being done to prove marijuana as a harmful drug, the truth of the matter is it is anything but. Arnold S. Trebach states, “Every major impartial official study – ranging from the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report in 1894 by British and Indian experts to the National Research Council report, An Analysis of Marijuana Policy, by American specialists in 1982 – reached roughly similar conclusions: marijuana presented some danger to the people who used it, but the actual level of harm was consistently exaggerated and control measures were frequently too harsh” (Trebach, 79). In fact, when the Drug Advance Warning Network (DAWN) was questioned about deaths involving marijuana use they responded with, “DAWN staff are not aware of a single instance in which marijuana though found in the body of the deceased, was deemed to have been the principal cause o...
