Marijuana is the most widely used drug in the world today. Is marijuana as dangerous as it is made out to be. A large variety of different people have many different opinions depending on their professions. Many doctors disagree with each other and the subject is one of their most controversial topics. Also marijuana as an illegal drug is more wide spread in the U.S. today than it ever has been before. Therefore it is becoming a large problem for law enforcement and many other governmental groups in the U.S. today.Marijuana has been in our society for many years. It is not exactly known when the drug first came into perspective in this nation. During the 1960s is when this drug became widely populated among the people in this country. If we assume conservatively that arrest figures represent ten percent of those who use the drugs, then the estimated number of California users in 1967 would be 320,000 persons ( The new social drug, p.93 ). This trend has been on a roll ever since then. The type of people who use this drug is not among any certain group. Many different people experiment with this drug. Although young and middle aged adults are the ones primarily using the drug there are still some elderly people using Marijuana also, just not in as large numbers. These people range from college students to your average businessman or women. All of these people have different beliefs towards their drug us. Some only us marijuana at parties or on weekends, and others us it every day after work or before. The reason people use the drug is not wide spread. Some people use the drug to alter their state of mind and to change their form of thinking. Others use the drug to have a good time. The more negative reasons people us marijuana is so they can coupe with their problems in life, make their life easier. These reasons are closely related to the abuse of marijuana. A lot of the reasons are closely related, or are the same reasons people bec...