Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana has already been accepted by two out of the 50 states. The United States need to start looking at the medical purposes of marijuana and the lives it can change and possibly save. Alcohol has killed many people and yet it is still legal. One needs to drop their preconceived notions and look beyond bad publicity. Marijuana should be legal because it can help America generate additional revenue to contribute toward paying off the deficit, it
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Marijuana versus America Sarah Marcum COM/156 8/7/2011 Crystal Darby
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Marijuana is one of the world’s oldest plants to come to wide practice of production, sale, and consumption originally used for medical purposes. This generated rapidly growing industries based around the variety of uses for the easily grown plant species. Hemp has been used for a variety of everyday purposes in Americas past including paper, clothing, food, and fuel; the economic potential for this plant type surpasses many plants which are considered staple crops today. Marijuana is America’s number
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specifically, marijuana. It’s been stated that marijuana, also known as cannabis and weed, originated in Asia. A record dating back to 4000 B.C. reports that it was used during surgery as an anesthetic. The plant made its way around the world and finally arrived in the U.S. around 1910. It was first outlawed in 1915 in Utah, when it was named as the reason crimes were being committed. By 1937, it was illegal in all states, made official by the Drug Enforcement Agency. Marijuana was and still
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Marijuana Legalization The legalization of marijuana is something that I have always been interested in. In high school, I heard about people first smoking marijuana, and I thought it was so bad because of everything that I was taught in elementary and middle school. Kids always pledged to stay away from any type of drug. Once I knew friends that were smoking and I talked to them about it, they made it seem so harmless, and that’s when I really got curious about it. Then I started to find out more
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legalization of Marijuana. Although this has been a controversy for many years now, in the more recent past there have been great strides toward legalization. The first great step was making marijuana legal for medical use, making marijuana legal for the first time since the early 1900’s. In the last year two states, Colorado and Washington, have completely legalized the drug. Marijuana should be legal because it is not harmful but helpful, could help boost the United States economy greatly, and is
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Stacy Merkerson April 19, 2013 Legalizing Marijuana Marijuana has had a long history in this country. It has been used through the years to treat illnesses and save lives. The use of marijuana currently contributes billions of dollars per year to the United States economy. Although marijuana is illegal, legalizing it would help to boost the U.S economy. It would also contribute to advances in medicine and offer relief for patients
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otherwise known as Marijuana. Abraham Lincoln said, "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason, in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles, upon which our government was founded." This statement still applies in today’s society in regard to the illegal use of marijuana. The ban on Marijuana causes more harm than the plant itself. The legalization of marijuana could benefit
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talking about is marijuana, and surprisingly it is all around us. Marijuana is even referred to in today’s media Mainstream media sources that people enjoy, like music, movies, and TV shows, do not even bother to leave the drug out of their system. Now being a young adult and having my own personal experience with the drug and knowing its effects on others, I wonder why it’s not legal. Why is it that this drug has become illegal all over the world? The debate to legalize marijuana in the United
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April 21. 2015 In recent discoveries, some people have argued whether or not marijuana should be legalized for recreational use. There are a lot of people that disagree and believe that medical purposes are good enough because of the proven results but there are also a lot of people that agree to the legalization of marijuana because of it not being categorized as a harmful drug. This so called “gateway drug” has never killed a single person but citizens with little or no knowledge at all about
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