Why Marijuana should be legalized

1."I completely disagree with the laws that hold marijuana, in society, to be illegal. To claim that a plant without a portion of the consequences that alcohol or tobacco brings is to be deemed illegal is utterly foolish. With that, Marijuana should be legalized" "Your Argument towards the side effects on Cannabis are completely true and cannot be argued. But when it is compared to tobacco or prescribed drugs, the main focus is on THC. Compared to tobaccos 4000 chemicals, 559 ingredients, and 43 carcinogens, THC in cannabis is more or less just a moral standing on the using of marijuana. With drugs and alcohol there are always inevitable problems with every substance. What should be, and is, a main focus on the legalization of Cannabis is, do the benefits outweigh the effects? A study at a University in California suggests that there is a definite slowing in the progression of people affected with Alzheimer's. Another study in Saskatchewan shows that Cannabis when consumed helps with the treatment of nausea when undergoing chemotherapy, helps with the prevention and treatment of glaucoma, a pain reliever, and helps with muscle relaxation with multiple sclerosis. In 2008 a survey was taken on prescribed pain relievers, and there was an estimated 15 million Americans age 15 to 28 that abused pain relievers. The two most common forms of pain relievers are Oxycontin and Vicodin for mild and moderate pain. These two narcotics are prescribed and accepted in society but have numerous serious side effects such as heart failure, hemorrhages, hypo-tension, Anorexia, diarrhea, hyperglycemia, iron deficiency anemia, laryngitis, lung disorder, are just a few examples." ---Ok my opponent clearly is trying to justify pot with tobacco, which is clearly ignorant,they are both inherintly bad for you. However This is what he is clearly trying to tell you, Look we have this bad thing that is legal lets add more bad things. This will not help society, its bad enough that we have tobacco products that are legal; but adding more bad habbit's? Which causes people to inflict harm upon themselves, for the high or the addiction of it... My opponent is clearly advocating, we have something worse than this so lets add this on top of it and its ok because its not as bad but admits its bad? Clearly you can see the contradiction? The fact of the matter is that tobacco in itself should be illegal as well, but since to many addicts, plus how much taxes the government has on it and that is some main reasons why the government hasn't made it illegal. However this is still very wrong.--- I will now give points to why you should vote my side. 1.My opponent clearly admits pot is harmful to human beings, and tries to tell you that look we this horrible legal drug tobacco which he portrays as bad for society, but why not add more harm and add pot. Sub point: my opponent may argue that even if pot is not legalized its still going to be a problem, well yes we will still have the use of illegal drugs. However i will like to say that if it were legalized we would see the increase in the use, and destributing of pot and the increase of pot users. Not benefiting society, adding more harm not less. 2.My opponent clearly cannot prove pot not harmful to the human body as he admitted and give a reason why it ought to be legalized. I urge the voters to vote negative.....