Through these 70 plus years of banning marijuana we have been misinformed with false scare tactics, myths, and just strange hyperboles over exaggerating, weed we have been told the strange myths that smoking marijuana can cause men to grow breasts. But on a serious note there are some points that seem logical when said. For example, “ Drunk driving is just as bad as driving while high.” now marijuana does in fact impair the driving skills of one, but not in a similar way as alcohol. Marijuana gives you a high that makes you more cautious of your surroundings which is why drunk driving kills more than 20 people a day and marijuana studies have not found similar results. In addition, we all have seen the brute force the Mexican cartel can create, as a matter of fact people feel as …show more content…
But to see what made marijuana illegal we must read what was said in the letter that was given to congress in 1971 by Assistant Secretary of Health Dr. Roger Egeberg and sent to Congress. The letter stated “Since there is still a considerable void in our knowledge of the plant and effects of the active drug contained in it, our recommendation is that marijuana be retained within schedule 1 at least until the completion of certain studies now underway to resolve the issue.” In other words, Marijuana was classified as a schedule I drug do to a lack of evidence of it even being harmful. “The original plan was for it to remain under Schedule I only until the National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse released its recommendations as to how to proceed. When that commission subsequently concluded that there wasn’t any medical basis for banning marijuana and suggested that it be decriminalized, then-President Richard Nixon ignored the recommendation, and the drug remained