Top 3 Myths about Marijuana

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Top 3 Myths About Marijuana
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• For decades, cannabis opponents controlled the
  messaging around the popular plant and cultivated
  any number of lies about its effects. Out of all
  the drugs out therelegal and otherwiseweed can
  be singled out as the most misunderstood. Here
  are the top three marijuana myths that persist to
  some degree today, and the facts that debunk
  them.

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• 1. Marijuana is as addictive as heroinIt is now
  frequently stated that marijuana is profoundly
  addicting and that any increase in prevalence of
  use will lead inevitably to increases in
  addiction.The FactsEssentially all drugs are
  used in "an addictive fashion" by some people.
  However, for any drug to be identified as highly
  addictive there should be evidence that
  substantial numbers of users repeatedly fail in
  their attempts to discontinue use and develop
  use-patterns that interfere with other life
  activities.In fact, more than 90 of people
  who try cannabis do not become addicted. However,
  heroin has a 23.1 lifetime dependency level,
  cocaine is at 20.9, alcohol is at 22.7 and
  nicotine is at a staggering 67.5.

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• 2. MARIJUANA IS A DRUG WITHOUT THERAPEUTIC
  VALUEProposals to make marijuana legally
  available as a medicine are countered with claims
  that safer, more effective drugs are available,
  including a synthetic version of delta-9-THC,
  marijuana's primary active ingredient.The
  FactThe reality is that cannabis is something of
  a wonder drug. The majority of American medical
  doctors think marijuana should be legal according
  to Web MD survey reported in Apriland with good
  reason. It alleviates symptoms related to
  chemotherapy, AIDS, certain cancers and
  especially glaucoma. Cannabis is effective
  medicine for millions of people, and legalizing
  it would provide more of them access to it.

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• 3. MARIJUANA IS A MAJOR CAUSE OF HIGHWAY
  ACCIDENTSMarijuanas opponents claim that it,
  too, causes significant impairment and that any
  increase in use will lead to increased highway
  accidents and fatalities.The FactIn actual
  driving studies, marijuana produces little or no
  car-handling impairment consistently less than
  produced by moderate doses of alcohol and many
  legal medications. In contrast to alcohol, which
  tends to increase risky driving practices,
  marijuana tends to make subjects more cautious.

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