Marijuana Brain Scans

This video is about the effects that marijuana has on the brain (or at least that is what is says it is about). The only problem is that it only says a little bit about the effects of marijuana on the brain. It talks mostly about alcohol and methamphetamines and how these drugs have an extreme effect on the brain. The effects include the decrease in the amount of brain tissue which could result in mental and pyschiatric problems. The part that talks about marijuana's effect mentions that marijuana causes the brain tissue to decrease which leads to a decrease of memory and motivation.

Well, I want the right to lose my motivation and memory. How can it be the government's right to tell me that I shouldn't smoke marijuana because I can lose my motivation. That means they should just make fattening food illegal because it gives people diseases. They should make exercise illegal because one could get injured in action. They should make sex illegal because it spreads viruses and diseases. I think your probably getting my point that we should have the right to receive the consequences of our actions if we know the consequences. Everything can possibly harm individuals, but the government can't stop them from happening by making them illegal. I want the right to harm myself with marijuana, even though I feel it is pretty close to harmless.