oh dont start me on this i did 6 weeks reasearch and wrote a 8 page essay on the issue, legalise it:
It doesnt cause brain damage, THC is a sythesized natural chemical that already exsists in your brain, any damage to the brain is caused by carbon monoxide, and thats only if you smoke it, so legalising it would make it easier to take in other ways. THC is a chemical which will emphasise any existing mental problems it CANNOT cause them. The memory loss is only when under the influence, because the chemicals that cause this problem get converted into cannaboids which are then stored into the bodies fat cells, which cannot in anyway influence you.
About second hand smoke, HA!!! only something like 8% of the THC gets absorbed into the smokers lungs , because burning cannabis destroys the THC, and when the smoke travels through the air it is still getting deystoyed, hence it is more or less impossible to get stonned off second hand smoke...
Now for the issue of cannabis v ciggaretts, it is true that cannabis has 4 times as much tar as tobacco, but that doesnt mean it is worse, the chemical in tobbaco that is supposed to be the cause of cancer(it is still unclear what it is) is NOT pressant in cannabis, plus cannabis is a broncial dilator which opens up the lungs making it easier to breathe so the lungs are much better ventalated, tobacco does the exact opposite. Put it this way, there has been no documented death of Cannabis use alone EVER.
The US banned Cannabis because of the mexican smoking it and there was a lot of propaganda about it making the mexicans wild murdering rapists, this combined with the DEA's leader having a thing against black blues/jazz players that smoked cannabis and made it illegal so he could "lock them all up".
Addiction its simply false, there is no chemical in cannabis that can get you addicted to, however people with an obsessive personality can become psycolgically addicted to it, and this has been proven many times by different health organisations around the world.
fetus development, now, if you look at statistics of countries where cannabis is legal, 80% of born bables are born healthier than babies in countries where cannabis is illegal.
As for leading to harder drugs it is more or less even, it depends on the person and the crowd than plain yes or no, but legalising it makes it harder to get connections to people who sell harder drugs, and plus it would decrease the amount of funding the hard drug dealers get.
Did you know that 1 acre of cannabis can produce more paper than 10 acres of trees? Plus Cannabis takes less nutrients from the soil and grows a lot quicker, at least legalise it for industial use. Scientist have now found a way to make a new type of plastic from cannabis, which wont effect the enviroment to make, there are litterally thousands of uses for hemp in the industrial world, did you know the first dennim cloths where made from hemp?
now ask ne questions, i'll do my best to answer them,
sorry but this is an issue i feel strongly about....