“Marijuana is highly addictive. Long-term marijuana users experience physical dependence and withdrawal, and often need professional drug treatment to break their marijuana habits”, says the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Which is a myth and one example of the lies told about marijuana that make it look so bad. Most people who smoke marijuana smoke it only occasionally. A small minority of Americans, less than one percent smoke marijuana on a daily basis. An even smaller minority develop dependence on marijuana. Some people who smoke marijuana heavily and frequently stop without difficulty. Others seek help from drug treatment professionals. Marijuana does not cause physical dependence. If people experience withdrawal symptoms at all, they are remarkably mild. Another myth that has been told is “Marijuana’s harms have been proved scientifically. In the 1960s and 1970s, many people believed that marijuana is harmless. Today we know that marijuana is much more dangerous that previously believed.”—New York Times. But it is a fact That in 1972, after reviewing the scientific evidence, the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse concluded that while marijuana was not entirely safe, its dangers have been grossly overstated. Since then, researchers have conducted thousands of studies of humans, animals, and cell cultures. None reveal any findings dramatically different from those described by the National Commission in1972. In 1995, based on research, editors of the British medical journal Lancet concluded that “the smoking of cannabis (marijuana), even long term, is not harmful to health”.Marijuana is not medicine—California Narcotic Officers’ Association. Medical marijuana has gotten a lot of attention and caused lots of controversy. “There is no evidence to prove marijuana’s use in chemotherapy. There are numerous alternative drugs that obvi...
