On the other hand, marijuana is bad for society because it causes an increase in crime and it has side effects on the people who use it. People are affected by marijuana because it has pharmacological effects on the human body, that is, the physiological or biochemical changes produced by the drug in the body, but they cannot understand how marijuana affects them. affected. According to “Marijuana Mess” written by Kristin Lewis, it talked about a teenager, Matthew, who took marijuana at the age of twelve. Matthew said: “I would steal from my family to get money to buy marijuana. I would steal from my friends. I would do whatever it took to get high. All I wanted to do was smoke weed” (2010). In other words, it proves that marijuana affects people's thinking and causes them to do something unusual. Additionally, Matthew purchased a lot of marijuana from drug dealers to sell at school and in shopping malls. Additionally, the article shows that marijuana affects people's brains, so they can no longer control themselves to do anything. Then the second paragraph mentions that people have lost their jobs from smoking marijuana, so they have no income to support themselves; therefore, more people who use drugs end up homeless because they spend all their money on drugs and have no money to live their lives. Then they have to steal something to continue living as before and use that money to buy