The federal agency NIDA says that autopsies show 75 people per year are high on marijuana when they die, but this does not mean that this is a factor in any of their deaths. A. No, just the opposite. The only crime marijuana users commit is using marijuana. The U.S. Shafer Commission report was the most comprehensive study ever undertaken on the subject. The simple fact is that marijuana does not change your basic personality.
All smoke is unhealthy, but marijuana is safer than tobacco, and people tend to smoke less of it.
Moreover, cannabis is a proven herb with hundreds of therapeutic uses in treating ailments from stress to arthritis to glaucoma to asthma to cancer therapy, to AIDS, and more. A. Most sensational claims of health risks cite no studies or sources at all. Others play on inconclusive or flawed reports. A. American taxpayers have funded many studies on this very point, and every independent government panel on marijuana has opposed the jailing of marijuana smokers. Most have urged the lawmakers to re-legalize and tax use of this herb by responsible adults, with age limits and regulations like those on alcohol and tobacco.