reasons why the issue about marijuana is controversial:

1-It has been falsely said that smoking marijuana does not affect health. According to studies published by the US Drug Abuse National Institute, among the effects of consuming marijuana are: distorted perception of reality; loss of memory and learning ability; lack of motor coordination; disorientation; inability to think clearly, to react and solve problems; loss of cognitive abilities, which may be permanent; anxiety attacks, paranoia, panic; phobias, hallucinations; increased heart rate and low pressure, which increases the risk of heart attack by four times; low immune system; respiratory problems; cough; pulmonary congestion and cancer, because it contains more carcinogenic substances than tobacco.

2-It would seriously affect the economy to dedicate to the cultivation of drugs - that is, something that will ruin the health and life of the population - land that could be dedicated to food and / or medicinal crops.

1. Legalizing marijuana would not stop the violence; it would only serve to enrich a few landowners who are already rubbing their hands thinking about the profits they will get.

2. More than ninety-nine percent of cocaine and heroin addicts owe this addiction to one day they gave in to the temptation to alienate themselves and allowed themselves to try marijuana. And once they crossed that threshold, they continued to experiment with increasingly stronger drugs. Marijuana is the gateway to more serious addictions.

3. Many people who today do not dare to try marijuana because it is forbidden would do so if it were legal. Soon not only adults, but young people, adolescents and even children, would be consuming it, starting their sad path of addiction and destruction.

4. If, although it is prohibited, tobacco cigarettes are sold to motorists, marijuana cigarettes will also be sold. Now we will not only have to take care of the drunkards they handle, also of the 'marihuanos'! And when the road accidents increase, will the authorities install 'marihuanímetros' next to the 'breathalyzers?'.