Before your state passes this legislation, don’t your lawmakers need to know more about the subject?
Has your state already legalized pot? If so, did it consider both sides of the issue first?
I have no personal experience with this substance, but I know what research has revealed about it.
Yes, pot may have some positive effects, but it has even more negatives. Canada legalized marijuana last year before studying both sides and is now experiencing these effects, especially the infertility issues.
Short-term side effects
- Short-term memory problems.
- Severe anxiety, including paranoia.
- Strange behavior: seeing, hearing or smelling things that aren’t there, and an inability to tell imagination from reality (psychosis).
- Panic.
- Hallucinations.
- Loss of sense of personal identity.
- Increased stroke risk.
- Slower reaction time.
- Increased heart rate and heart attack risk.
- Coordination problems.
- For males, impotence problems.
- Females users may be up to seven times more likely to contract sexually transmitted infections
than non-users.
Long-term side effects
- A decline in IQ.
- Poor school performance and a higher chance of dropping out.
- Impaired thinking, as well as an inability to learn and perform new tasks.
- Addiction, and potential development of opiate abuse.
- Relationship problems, including intimate partner violence.
- Antisocial behavior. including stealing money or lying.
- Financial difficulties.
- Greater chances of unemployment or underemployment.
- Marijuana’s active ingredient, THC, negatively impacts ovulation in females and sperm count in males. It causes infertility.
In every state that legalizes pot, these effects will impact everyone, not just those who use marijuana. The fertility problems it causes could reduce the US population and therefore spread the tax burden of supporting our government among fewer taxpayers.
Also, you as a taxpayer will pay for the negative outcomes that result from its use. So if your state hasn’t approved this legislation yet, perhaps you should encourage awareness of all of the issues, not just pot’s benefits.
I hope my state considers the research
before approving this.
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