key study of Dr. Robert Heath#. This study was performed in the late seventy’s and was reviewed again in nineteen eighty-two. The study was shown to have no true understanding of the monkey’s brain in being able to determine the normal brain to the damaged brain.. The control group was to small to consistening of only four monkeys and there was an experimental bias. This study was torn apart by the American Medical Association (AMA). In another comparison marijuana is no where near as addictive as cigarettes for instance. Cigarettes have a ninety- percent addiction rate while marijuana is less addictive than caffeine#. Marijuana in the non-smoked form is safer than the non-smoked form of cigarettes, which is snuff or chew. The non-smoked version of marijuana is in many forms one of the more popular types are bhang a Middle Eastern drink that contains an extract. This drink is totally non-carcinogenic unlike chew, which causes mouths and throat cancer. The addiction factor in marijuana is next to non-existent. The majority of people who smoke marijuana do it socially and to relax. Even with the so-called addictive personalities it is still not a leader, as some would have you think. On an average scale the addiction of marijuana is less than that of sugar and chocolate but more so than that of anchovies#.The gateway effect is a widely used term to express the false impression that marijuana leads people to harder and harder drugs. This is a lie marijuana is not a “gateway” drug it does not lead people to do crack, heroin or LSD. In Holland with the legalization of marijuana the use of hardcore drugs has shown to decrease. If marijuana were a gateway drug and it were legalized then the only thing that could logically happen would be that the use of hardcore drugs (cocaine, heroin) would have increased. Yet the opposite happened the harder drugs declined while marijuana did increase it took the place of these drugs#...
