What is the most asked question among people that are somehow connected to any drug consumption? “How long a specific substance stays in the system?” – this is the question that everyone wants to know the answer to. Of course it is pretty hard to determine and put a number to it, but in most cases it does not take too long to get completely clean. As you might know, out of all the toxins, metabolite of marijuana is the hardest to get rid of because it is fat soluble and store in fatty tissues of a body. There is a fear that with the official decriminalization of marijuana there will be a blast of everybody taking up the habit. However, statistics show that it is not likely to happen at all.

Back in 1999 Federal Institute of Medicine released findings of a study that showed that less than 10 percent of people who had ever smoked marijuana developed dependency to it. For comparison – 34 percent of cigarette (and tobacco in general) smokers and 15 percent of alcohol consumers had met the clinical criteria of dependence. Therefore, legal consumption of the drug will not lead to constant use, and certainly will not cause more people to get seriously involved.

Despite the fact that various studies have proven that cannabis is no more harmful to a human body than currently legal alcohol and tobacco, the fears of skyrocketed demand in the drug after legalization postpone the matter further. As though more facts are needed to prove that legalizing the substance would not cause the increase of the consumption, nor would addiction increase.