...article in the Time Healthland titled "How a Far-Right Icon came to Embrace Marijuana Legalization." The other day, we got solid proof that the media is biased toward the left. On a cable-news show seen by millions, a white-hair host declared that although the U.S. has 5%of the world's population, it detains a quarter of the world's prisoners. "I just think it's shocking to see how mony of these young people wind up in prison", he said. "And then they get turned into hard-core criminals because they have possession of a small amount of a controlled substance. The whole thing is crazy." It's a sensible position. Strikingly, it came from the host of the Christian Broadcasting Network's "700 Club" - right-wing icon Pat Robertson. He went on to say that mere possession of pot should be decriminalized. The 40 year old "700 Club" isn't known for advancing liberal cause. In fact, four days after Robertson, 81, called for the legalization of marijuana, he said on his show that "if enough people were praying" Jesus Christ might have "stilled" there recent tornadoes that destroyed lives and homes in the Midwest and South. Robertson has crep slowly into his pro-legalization position on marijuana. In 2010, he said on the "700Club" that people shouldn't get long prison terms for taking " a couple puffs of marijuana." shortly afterward, his New York City- based spokesman, Chris Roslan, issueda statement saying Robertson "unequivocally" oppose the use of any drugs. And yet when I...
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...Benefits of Marijuana Legalization Brandy Lacey Hum/114 October 13, 2014 Lanny Brown Benefits of Marijuana Legalization The benefits of legalizing marijuana is an issue that has been all over the news and social media as of late, and I for one have never really been on the bandwagon for being for this, so I decided to do my own research to find out what the hype is all about. In my research I have discovered a lot of information I was not aware of. There are many pro’s to using medical marijuana. Some children who have seizures have been helped by being prescribed hemp oils, chemotherapy patients are being given medical marijuana so they can eat food without getting sick all the time. These are just a couple benefits I have found to legalizing marijuana, and the list goes on and on. Many say that marijuana is a gateway drug, and I have also spent years thinking this, but there is no research to actually back up this statement, it is a biased statement, in fact less than 25 percent of marijuana user’s move on to heavier drugs such as cocaine or heroin. Another misconception is that marijuana is addictive but studies have shown that it is no more addictive than caffeine, even tobacco is more addictive than marijuana and more deadly. So why is tobacco usage legal and not marijuana? Another pro to this is taxing, if the government sells marijuana and places a tax on it similar to cigarettes, it would create more money and help our economy as well as cut out the...
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... Kountz i Outline Thesis statement: Many people argue that marijuana is a mind-altering, dangerous 22, and should remain illegal. This hasty generalization is not correct. Marijuana has many beneficial attributes,18 therefore28 it should be legalized. Marijuana used for health benefits. The applications of Marijuana. Marijuana as a stress reliever. Marijuana increase sick patients appetite. Medical marijuana can improve patients quality of life. Marijuana allows patients to maintain nutrition Marijuanas impact on the United States Economy. If marijuana is legalized it will help stimulate our economy. 1. Legal marijuana will make more business opportunities. 2. Legalizing marijuana will create new jobs. B. Legalizing marijuana would help decrease national debt. 1. Federal government can tax marijuana at a high rate. 2. The federal government can use marijuana tax to go against debt. III. America funds Mexican drug cartels. America pays top dollar for Mexican marijuana. Kountz ii Mexican drug cartels smuggle drugs across the border. American money funds Cartels. Cartels are violent Cartels kill many innocent people. B. America should legalize marijuana nation-wide. 1. Legalizing marijuana would help our economy and patients. 2. Legalizing marijuana will help stop Mexican drug cartels. Notes...
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...Decriminalizing Marijuana When people hear the world marijuana they often associate it with other negative things such as, addiction, gangs, law violations, hallucinations, disorientation, and criminal activity. However marijuana has been used and shown to have positive effects in multiple medical conditions. Marijuana has been found to relieve symptoms of diseases of serious magnitude such as asthma, glaucoma, and muscle spasms are just a few. Marijuana has also been found to relieve a loss of appetite and nausea due to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) wasting syndrome and chemotherapy treatment (AIDS 1). Marijuana has become a major source of relief for many terminally ill patients, as well as people with mental disorders such as depression, and bipolar disorder. Why then if marijuana has multiple positive effects and uses is it illegal? One common answer is that it is a mind altering drug and can be a life treating and can affect health in long term use. This is a weak answer because while marijuana is illegal other substances such as alcohol which is well known to be a mind altering substance and tobacco which is a substance proven to cause health issues including death, are both very legal. Legalizing marijuana and decriminalizing marijuana could have multiple positive outcomes. Legalizing marijuana for medical use would not only give ill patients different treatment options for their illnesses, but the handling and issuing of medical marijuana would generate jobs...
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...Speech Research Form NAME: Tiara Jones SPEECH ASSIGNMENT: Persuasive speech SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT: To Persuade my audience to take the steps of legalizing marijuana in Missouri and to support the legalization of marijuana, because of it being able to provide many medical as well as economic benefits for the United States if legalized. THESIS STATEMENT: Marijuana has been regarded as a harmful plant that can endanger lives and is thought to be nothing more than an extra problem to be dealt with in today’s society. However, based on its economic value and medical benefits, the cannabis has proven to outweigh its negatives with numerous other positives. By completing the details for each source below, you will have all the necessary information to complete the bibliography on your working outline. Source 1: Netflix Article title:The Union: The Business Behind Getting High Author: Name of periodical: Surviving Disaster. Volume: 1 Pages: 1hr 44 Date: 2007 Database used: movie Date information retrieved or DOI: Type of supporting material: statistics Specific information obtained (copy and paste): Didnt take notes just listen to repeat information Source 2: Book read Article title: Marihunana the forbidden medicine Author: by Lester Grinspoon Name of periodical: book Volume: Pages: Date: 2012 Database used: n/a Date information retrieved or DOI: n/a Type...
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...Unit 4: Annotated Bibliography Allix Betsinger Kaplan University THESIS STATEMENT: Problems within the economy in the United States could be restored with the help of legalizing marijuana. Taking in marijuana for industrial, medical, and personal use would reassure the growth and stability of the economy as a whole. Rojas, A. (2011). Marijuana uses, effects and the law. Hauppauge, N.Y.: Nova Science. This would be a great book to use for my final project in unit nine because it talks about the effects of marijuana mentally and physically. As it talks about how marijuana affects us mentally and physically I could discuss how it could help many people. It also discusses the laws that are in place now with in our nation. Knowing what laws are in place now would be great to know what needs to me changed to make our great nation even better. Lastly it talks about marijuana being used for medical and recreational use which would be great for my final project. WYATT, K. (2015, February 4). Colorado May Have To Refund As Much As $30 Million In Pot Taxes. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/04/colorado-pot-taxes-back-to-residents_n_6612292.html This is a great news article I found. It discusses how Colorado has made a lot of tax revenue just off of marijuana. With that being said because it is not legal federally they can’t use it for schools and other great things. Instead they have to give it back to the people. It discusses how every...
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...The American Medical Association (AMA) makes claim the use of marijuana is a dangerous drug and as such is a public health concern and that the sale of marijuana should not be legalized. The report shows where the American Medical Association makes several statement to the public that the American people need to be on the side of science and oppose efforts to expand marijuana use and addiction. They also state, “There is no current scientific evidence that marijuana is in any way beneficial for the treatment of any psychiatric disorder. This article offers no substantial information in regards to how harmful the drug really is. (Sabet, 2013) If the drug offer no scientific evidence of beneficial properties, than and they cannot offer any substantial information on how harmful the drug really is, than why not legalize it for adult consumption. Here is one piece of evidence of beneficial properties that the report does not show, there has yet to be a single case where a person has overdosed from the consumption of marijuana. This fact alone shows that the use of marijuana over conventional alcohol has its benefits. Although, marijuana use does have some sort term dangers. Some discomforts from the use of smoking marijuana include dry mouth, dry eyes, increased heart rate and visible sign of intoxication. Others problems include impaired short term memory, difficult thinking and problem solving, anxiety, paranoia, impaired muscle coordination, increased susceptibility to infections...
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...Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana, also known as cannabis, hash, or weed, is the new trend rising in America. This psychoactive drug has been used for thousands and thousands of years; from Ancient China, to Colonial America. It has recently come into the light because of the legalization of the plant in two states: Colorado and Washington. This law legalizes the use of the plant for recreational purposes, and allows the growing of 12 plants in each household for personal use. How will this affect our economy? What are the health benefits / advantages? The use of the Cannabis plant throughout history is surprisingly large. The earliest documented use of it was in Ancient China, around 4000 B.C. To most cultures, Marijuana was viewed as a gift, or treasure, from the Divine spirit. It was used during ceremonies, ingested for deep meditation, smoked for pleasure, or used as clothes. The Chinese emperor and herbalist Cheng-Nung wrote about its medicinal uses 5000 years ago, stating its effects on malaria, and many other illnesses. In England, King Henry VIII required the cultivation of one quarter acre of it for every sixty acres of farming land. When the Pilgrims landed in early America as early as 1632, the Native American people taught them about the farming of Marijuana. The first president of the United States, George Washington, grew Indian Hemp, or Cannabis sativa, on his farm. Marijuana is the dried blossom of the Cannabis sativa and Cannabis indica plants. Parts...
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...Legalization of Marijuana The plant cannabis sativa, better known as marijuana or hemp, has been used by many in different ways. It has been grown to provide food for villages and towns, and used for cloths, sails on early ships and most commonly rope. Many famous writings were written on hemp paper such as The Bible and a draft of the U.S. Constitution (Cronin, 1993). For many years people have smoked marijuana for recreational purposes. Although it was illegal to possess, smokers may still have partaken in the ritual of getting high, stoned, bombed, blitzed are only some of the terms that are used. Many will claim that marijuana is not a bad drug and many will say it is. In this argument we will identify that if it is true to fact or is it just a ploy by the government to keep it illegal. The use for medical purposes has also come to scrutiny as well. The majority of Americans choose the same issues as the most threatening to the nation. Invariably among these one will see “drugs” as a major concern of most Americans. There is speculation that this is due to a perceived association between drugs and crime (Inciardi, 1999). A good deal of the argument over government policy towards drugs centers on the least unhealthy and most socially accepted of the illegal drugs, marijuana. Marijuana, scientifically known as Tetra-hydro-cannabinol (THC), belongs to its own group among other legal and illegal drugs. It is neither a narcotic, such as heroin, nor a stimulant, such...
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...The Medical Marijuana Controversy Medical Marijuana is a large controversial subject in today’s society. You may hear about it in the news, on the radio, in a magazine, it is a matter you hear about on a daily basis. As you may know Marijuana has been used for as long as we have known it for recreational and enjoyment purposes. Only in the last decade have you heard of the drug has being more commonly used for medical purposes such as cancer, HIV and other severe medical conditions. These controversies consist of the two opposing views on medical Marijuana; those who support it and its legalization and those who are against it and believe it should be banned. According to thorough medical research and studies, Marijuana does show signs of relief and treatment for numerous medical conditions. Diseases and illnesses such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, Arthritis, HIV/AIDS, depression and many more effect are large percentage of people in the United States today. With very few or no treatments and cures for these illnesses, medical Marijuana has become an alternative for people suffering. Marijuana contains an active ingredient known as THC or tetrahyricannabinol. This ingredient provides the “high effect” after smoking the drug. The American Cancer Society states how clinical tests established that, THC reduces pain and other symptoms of cancer. With this being, the FDA has approved the THC in Marijuana for medical and therapeutic uses. (Tashkin) Although Marijuana might have a...
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...settlers brought the marijuana plant, commonly known as hemp, to North America in 1611, and throughout the colonial period, hemp fiber was an important export. Indeed, in 1762, 'Virginia awarded bounties for hemp culture and manufacture, and imposed penalties on those who did not produce it.” (Jamestown Settlers Bring Marijuana to North America). Booth (2005). Medicinal Cannabis….what's all the hype? The therapeutic qualities are marvelous. Cannabinoids offer the following for patient’s antipastic, analgesic, antiemetic, neuroprotective, and anti-inflammatory actions. People who suffer from psychiatric diseases have found relief with their conditions ranging from depression, anxiety, bipolar, and similar mood disorders. The National Institute of Health, also known to many people as NIH. This organization states that medical marijuana helps a great deal with chemotherapy, and nausea. Letting the cancer patient consume food. They have also found that people who suffer from epileptic seizures that use medicinal cannabis helps to prevent them altogether. (Potter, 1998). Cancer patients who are going through chemotherapy suffer from vomiting, pain, and loss of appetite. Using medicinal cannabis to help treat these symptoms, gives cancer patients relief in knowing that they do not have to suffer from a disease that is already possibly killing them slowly. Patients with breast, cervical, colorectal, brain, leukemia, lung, and prostate cancer; use medicinal marijuana to help alleviate...
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...| Marijuana Legalization: Why Marijuana Should be Legalized in All Fifty States English 102 Final Paper Table of Contents I. Introduction …………………………………………………………………………… 1 II. Is Marijuana a “Gateway Drug?” ……………………………………………………... 2 III. Arguments against Legalization ………………………………………………………. 3 VI. Recent Legalization Efforts …………………………………………………………… 4 V. Medicinal Uses of Marijuana …………………………………………………………. 5 VI. Economic Arguments Against Criminalization ………………………………………. 7 VII. Marijuana Cultivation and DTO ……………………………………………………... 8 VIII. From Decriminalization to Legalization …………………………………………… 8 IX. Conclusion …………………………………………………………………………… 10 Marijuana Legalization: Why Marijuana Should be Legalized in All Fifty States I. Introduction The issue of marijuana legalization in the United States is a charged one that brings forth supporters and opponents arguments alike. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) Uniform Crime Reports, one marijuana-related arrest occurs every forty-two seconds in the United States. The government conducted over 1.53 million drug-related arrests in 2011, 90% for possession alone, and nearly 50% due to marijuana (FBI Uniform Crime Report). State governments are currently responding to shifts in public opinion, especially given the recent legalizations that passed in Colorado and Washington. According to Gallup Polls, more Americans supported the legalization of marijuana than not in 2011 (50% vs. 46%)...
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...Jacob Frederick 5-29-12 Buller Composition II Marijuana: Medicine or Menace? I have had strong feelings about this issue before it was even brought up as a topic for debate in our class. My opinion on the topic has not changed in the slightest, but I did learn a lot of interesting details concerning it. I have always felt that marijuana should be legalized, or at the very least, people with serious medical conditions should have access to it. And marijuana doesn’t even have to be legalized in my opinion, but it should definitely be decriminalized. I don’t think anyone who wants to smoke a plant that they grow themselves should have to suffer consequences, considering they are responsible in their recreational smoking. I do feel that if it were legalized, that there should be an acceptable age limit to buy and/or consume marijuana, comparable to that of alcohol. There are beneficial as well as harmful effects concerning marijuana, but that goes for a lot of things people do in everyday life. And I feel that a lot of time has been spent shining the spotlight on the harmful effects of marijuana, while little research has been done or even allowed, on the benefits of marijuana. While preparing for the debate, I encountered many sources on each end of the spectrum; including some in the middle. Many of the sources I looked at seemed rather credible, but others were most definitely biased. One example of a blatantly biased comment was, "Most pot smokers drink alcohol heavily...
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...Debating in a theme about marijuana is controversial and opinions may vary. This article will refute the article from Bill Frist, MD titled Should marijuana be a medical option? The following discussion is intended to refute Bill Frist opposition to marijuana as a medical alternative and his reasoning to caution others not to utilize marijuana. The first argument to rebuttal is the former senator indicating that “There is no evidence that this (marijuana) is helping patients or that it really relieves pain” (Bill Frist, 01). Bill Frist validates his argument as a physician with a degree in Medicine, his participation in the Senate as Senator, and many other key positions in the government system. The level of credentials for MD Frist is of high ranking credibility. However, the article was submitted in 2009; about 4 years ago. Perhaps, at the time there was not enough collected information, or the data was omitted, or ignored. The article is also a personal opinion sent via email, which deducts reliability to the statement. Researched to rebuttal the argument in question is reported in Toke of the Town. An article by Steve Elliot from 2012, Worth Repeating: Suicide Rates Fall in Medical Marijuana States includes researched facts and statistics. Elliot’s article is based on a research conducted by Ron Marczyk, R.N., retired health education teacher. The research included the following arguments: • “Marijuana improves the "psychological well-being" of young adult males and saves...
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