we're dependent enough

A little bit of pot never hurt anyone right? Wrong. With every joint smoked an individual harms his lung to the equivalence of smoking seven cigarettes, and loses up to 300 brain cells depending of the poutiness of the marijuana. Doesn’t sound like something the government would approve of does it? Well once again you would be wrong, in Nevada legislation is considering letting up to an ounce of pot legally be bought, sold, and smoked.
Not only is pot unhealthy, but it is also a gateway drug. You very seldom turn on the television and see where someone has died form marijuana overdoes, you hear of cocaine, heroin, meth overdoses and acid related suicides. Now how does this relate to pot? See the thing is that when one starts marijuana- alls good, he gets high, laughs a lot, gets the munches, and then comes off his high all happy, but after a while pot just doesn’t do it any more. His high isn’t as long or as intense so he starts to explore new more powerful drugs to get that same high.
One of the big arguments for the legalization of pot is the fact that it doesn’t hurt anyone but yourself so why is it such a big deal. Well, as I said you don’t turn on the television and here of marijuana related accidents . . . yet. If pot is legalized and more people are smoking, more people are losing brain cells doesn’t it seem logical to assume it will become more abused thus more harmful to the society as a whole? Suppose that pot is legalized, kids smoke pot like the smoke cigarettes then an entire generation will be killing their brains. Test scores will drop, more kids will drop out of school because as a side effect pot doesn’t make you very motivated, fewer going to college all because another substance abuse issue in our country. Car wreck involving pot are very rare now but if a greater percentage of Americans become carefree stoners then it’s safe to say they might be a little more careless at the wheel, especially since the fear of getting busted would be eliminated.
Now I don’t know about you but I think America has enough dependences already. The legalization of marijuana is just one more reason for a father to forget about his kids, One more substance to blame for someone to not be able to hold a job, one more accuses for the drive that accidentally killed a family of four, one more thing for Americans to abuse.