Therefore the use of marijuana and alcohol in high schools had become more common, and more disturbing leaving its short and long term effects that harm our youngsters and our future. Drug use is often comes with a lot of negative consequences, including increased risk of serious drug in late life, failing at school and studies, and poor decisions in life which may put teens at great risk for accidents, making them violence with others or with themselves, and sometimes this may lead to suicide. To warn teenagers about drugs some people that are responsible of teaching teenagers about the effects of drugs can mention some major physical effects such as a lasting cough, fatigues in some body parts, the most recognizable effect of drugs is in the emotional side, so those teenagers would experience a long depression, irresponsible behavior, low self-esteem and sudden mood
“ ASAM contends that legalization would increase use, thereby increasing the negative effects of use such as addiction, drugged driving, and illicit use by teenagers.” (Marijuana Legalization honest debate). If a user chooses to use the substance on a daily routine, it could become habit forming. After the user is dependent on the drug they tend to set aside the important stuff in life. For example, one may chose to leave or set aside their job or their family members to get their next high, which later could lead to unemployment from the lack of motivation the user is experiencing or loss in family members. Legalizing this drug induced apathy and could lead to high unemployment rates in the states that do choose to legalize
But, this new practice of teenagers smoking will not lead to good and includes many dangerous side effects with health that will affect them. As indicated above, teenagers start smoking for many reasons. There are many reasons why each teenager starts smoking, perhaps different for each individual. But the most important ones are the ones we are going to talk about. One of the reasons that teenagers start is because of peer pressure.
The second concern is abuse. States are worried that people who get the medical marijuana card will abuse it and get more than needed or sell it for money. While people may abuse their card just to get high or make money, there is a limit on how much a person with the card. The limit depends on the state and it only exceeded if the doctor recommends it and the state approves it. There are also laws one when and where the marijuana can be in possession.
This will harm other people in their house. This is important, since small infants or babies would be in the houses that are not old enough to choose freely to smoke passively. Lastly, it would be impossible to ban smoking, like prohibition in the US, where the USA banned alcohol. Gangsters take advantage of the ban and would earn money by selling cigarettes at a higher price. The gangs increase in numbers which means an increase in government problems.
Teens have a difficult enough time making decisions and organizing their lives, but adding alcohol to the mix will only make matters worse; their bodies are still developing, and they are still learning to be adults. Teens already struggle deciding what clubs to join, what colleges to apply for, what college to attend, what to major in, and much more. Teens should not be allowed to legally drink because alcohol consumption can affect their health and
Vaping as an adolescent can lead to health issues in the future. E-cigarette liquid still contains the chemical nicotine. “Nicotine has known damaging effects: It’s addictive, toxic to developing fetuses and can harm brain development in children and young adults up to the age of 20” (Spector). This shows that when students introduce nicotine into their bodies at such a young age they can cause irreversible damage to their bodies that will hold them back from living a completely healthy life. “Propylene glycol, a chemical found in e-liquids, can irritate the eyes and airways...
Secondly, many people cannot afford prescription drugs, recreational marijuana can be used for various ailments and its health benefits exceed expectation. To add, recreational marijuana is taxable! Therefore, it is money that can be put into our communities. Recreational marijuana as intimidating as some may think, can actually benefit our community in many ways. To begin, many believe legalizing marijuana would cause crime to increase, on the contrary legalizing it will lead to a decrease of crime.
An experience of an event has the unwanted consequence that we learn something from it. These experiences are frequently transformed into memories. Experiences can have positive consequences but also negative ones. For instance, when you got very sick of the first cigarette you smoked, you probably learn to never smoke another one that then has a positive consequence for your health now and later in life. However, when you much enjoyed your first cigarette, you probably learn to smoke many more cigarettes that might have a negative consequence for your health now and later in life.
The odds of a fatal car crash are elevated significantly here, as are the chances of suffering from alcohol blackouts, being sexual assaulted, physically injured, and suffering various other harms. An analysis was made by the national College Alcohol Survey that younger college students first drank to intoxication, there’s a larger likelihood that they experienced alcohol dependence while they are in college. The law recently have been going against teenagers throwing party as they want because of the cautiousness of this addiction. Most party needs to be verified by the press which brings less freedom of a part of democracy into the everyday life. But, this actually results into teenagers ending up doing more private events which adds on the illegal habits of