The purpose of this paper is to discuss marijuana and compare both sides of the issue of legalizing marijuana. We have two sides fighting each other, one are those who are pro marijuana and those who are anti marijuana. These two sides have been fighting on this issue for years.
             Pro marijuana legalization groups argue that marijuana should be legalized in order to treat terminally ill patients. AIDS victims who find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous bacteria; glaucoma sufferers who have used marijuana said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for severe nausea.
             Many people, who are anti marijuana, argue that marijuana shouldn't be legalized. They believe that marijuana shouldn't be legalized because if marijuana is to become legal then thousands more patients will use it not for medical reasons. Then people will raise the question why marijuana is illegal at all if it's a medicine.
             The main reason why I feel that I don't want marijuana to be legal is because there is no hard-core evidence that proves that marijuana is a effective drug as a medicine. In all the research that they have done, no one has produced scientific proof that marijuana has medical value. The American Cancer Society, American Glaucoma Society, the National Multiple Sclerosis, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, or the American Medical Association, say that there is no evidence that marijuana is a medicine.
             Many people also argue that no other drug prescribed is smoked, and that knew findings show that marijuana is acutely harmful to AIDS and cancer patients because the active ingredient in marijuana acutely reduces the bodies white blood cells which fight off infection. The Drug Enforcement Agency along with police departments all over the United States believe, with the legalization of drugs crime will increase due t
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