The Times editorial recently ran a column calling to stop the cannabis prohibition. The Time considered many evidences and rightly concluded that prohibition is nothing but failure and it is the right time for complete legalization of medical marijuana.

Opinion of the common public has moved on the whole issue in last twenty years and most of the Americans today are favoring not just the medical cannabis but also the complete legalization of medical, recreational and industrial use of marijuana.
Bodies like the Office of Drug Control Policy obviously were against the whole thing and came up with their own vague assertions of negative results of cannabis use in any form. They came up with 4 points favoring the prohibition of cannabis.

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1. Marijuana Hinders Academic Growth: They suggest that the students who often get grades like D are often the ones using cannabis. The fact is most of the students who get these grades are result of dysfunctional families. More importantly cannabis will still continue to be illegal for anyone below 21 years old so this argument doesn’t make sense at all as we all know that dysfunctional families came first and not cannabis.

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2. Driving Under the Effect of Cannabis is a Threat: This can be easily debunked. Cannabis has been around for 17 years in California and no traffic accidents or crashes report has ever shown any rise in accidents because of cannabis. This means it is just speculation. In fact, some of the most reliable stories show that cannabis users are as likely to meet a crash as any other normal driver.

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3. Addiction: Well, it is true but equally true is the fact that ice creams are addictive too… Likewise, watching television is addictive, Twinkies are addiction and yet we have not made them illegal so far. So, why go all out against cannabis, when there’s alcohol perfectly permitted across the globe, which is known to damage liver, kidney, and have adverse impact on the human body.

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4. Cannabis Negatively Affects a Developing Brain: This myth started back in 2009 when England’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown raised penalties against cannabis claiming it caused schizophrenia and other mental illness. All he was attempting was to gain more votes from the Conservatives.

This led to the exit of his chief medical adviser as well. Since then, there has been no proof or study to support the notion.
So, most of these apprehensions are baseless, and there’s no strong reason to ban cannabis.

As a matter of fact, they’ve plenty of medicinal benefits, and can be used to cure multiple sclerosis, cancer, and several fatal disorders.