Drug Legalization (Marijuana)

As for your request for my link to the list of 24 amazing and extremely beneficial benefits of marijuana here it is! [4] Once you go through the 23 or 24 under each they give you a description and evidence to back each of these claims up. Since it is the Last round I will not offer any new arguments especially since my opponent only addressed two of my well over 25 points. Now to address the statement that cannabis can cause cancer. One this is not a acquisition to throw around lightly and especially without providing any proof, such as my opponent failed to do. Now I did research and found many websites and .orgs saying that marijuana can cause cancer, but here is the kicker!, It has only been found to POSSIBLY cause cancer while the user has also been smoking cigarettes or mixes tobacco into the "joint". Well of course something is going to be associated with cancer when mixed or used with the number 1 cancer causer in the world! Now I will provide two quotes, one saying it can possibly and one stating there has been no evidence found. You, our voters, can decide which makes more sense. "A pooled analysis of three case-cohort studies of men in northwestern Africa (430 cases and 778 controls) showed a significantly increased risk of lung cancer among tobacco smokers who also inhaled Cannabis." "A population-based case-control study of 611 lung cancer patients revealed that chronic low Cannabis exposure was not associated with an increased risk of lung cancer or other upper aerodigestive tract cancers and found no positive associations with any cancer type (oral, pharyngeal, laryngeal, lung, or esophagus) when adjusting for several confounders, including cigarette smoking." Both quotes come from [http://www.cancer.gov...] My opponent states that cannabis has no effect on the spread or development of cancer, but again fails to provide any evidence for this statement. I thought this knowledge was well known because it was quite a big deal, but I guess not. I will let the evidence and quotes speak for themselves on this one.(on a side note I understand this is from huffington post but you can go and search what they tell you about and where from and will find it is real.) *"A pair of scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco has found that a compound derived from marijuana could stop metastasis in many kinds of aggressive cancer, potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever. "It took us about 20 years of research to figure this out, but we are very excited," said Pierre Desprez, one of the scientists behind the discovery, to The Huffington Post. "We want to get started with trials as soon as possible." The Daily Beast first reported on the finding, which has already undergone both laboratory and animal testing, and is awaiting permission for clinical trials in humans. Desprez, a molecular biologist, spent decades studying ID-1, the gene that causes cancer to spread. Meanwhile, fellow researcher Sean McAllister was studying the effects of Cannabidiol, or CBD, a non-toxic, non-psychoactive chemical compound found in the cannabis plant. Finally, the pair collaborated, combining CBD and cells containing high levels of ID-1 in a petri dish. "What we found was that his Cannabidiol could essentially 'turn off' the ID-1," Desprez told HuffPost. The cells stopped spreading and returned to normal."* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com...] So to conclude not only did I provide a surplus amount of evidence and benefits, I also refuted all of my opponents point except the death while driving under the influence of marijuana, not a direct cause of marijuana. Yes did marijuana helped in causing the car accident? yes. But that person never would have died or been in that situation if not getting behind the wheel. Just look how many recorded deaths there are from alcohol but yet it is still legal. So to recap I believe I provided enough evidence to show that marijuana would have more benefits than negatives to society. Thank you. As you can see from my sites listed below I used very reliable websites including; TIME Magazine, CNN, Mayo Clinic, and Business Insider which offers even more website to go into if you follow the evidence they state. Cites: [1]- http://healthland.time.com... [2]- http://healthland.time.com... [3]- http://www.riversideonline.com... [4]- http://www.businessinsider.com...