Cannabis: an expensive, can ruined someone’s life. Cannabis is also known as weed and in a lot of people’s opinions cannabis is one of the most dangerous drug in the world. They are right. This drug can lead to on harder drugs for example crystal meth or ‘meow meow’ otherwise known as M-cat. This is otherwise known as a gateway drug. Cannabis being a gateway drug in many occasions has lead people to these deadly drugs. With it being the most attainable drug this truly can be called silent killers as many of the people who take it are unaware of the future issues.
For example why cannabis should keep it legal, John Triggs said “I though cannabis was cool probably because it was illegal” also if cannabis is illegal all the smokers in high school and lower school will straight go to harder drugs. 20% of teenagers are smokers however 50% of teenagers have smoked at least once. This tells us that if cannabis is illegal all the teenagers will start smoking cannabis instead normal cigarettes and the bad thing is that cannabis is worst than cigarettes. It has higher chance to get lung cancer or other diseases.
According to the daily mail news there is about 30,000 people kill a years from cannabis. Medical experts blame the Home Secretary for creating confusion about the risks posed by the drug - leading young people wrongly to believe it is harmless. They claim David Blanket’s decision to reclassify cannabis as a class C drug - putting it on a level with anabolic steroids and prescription painkillers - sent out the wrong message and played down the devastating health effects of its regular use.
Professor John Henry, a leading authority on the drug, said the change - due to take place this summer - had undermined doctors' efforts to highlight the risks. He said: "Cannabis is as dangerous as cigarette smoking - in fact, it may be even worse - and downgrading its legal status has simply confused people. Researchers