People will go behind the law and smoke anyway, so why is it illegal? If we legalized marijuana, and stopped arresting people for possession, the government, and taxpayers, could save a fortune on the cost of prisons and put the money they save to good use; such as health care, better, cheaper education, or raising the minimum
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Many people are told to them that drugs are harmful and can get in trouble for using it, some drugs can even cause death to themselves. The question here is why people do or take drugs even though they are told that it's harmful to them? The video from "The Drunken Debate", one of the people from the video brought up a good point by saying that depending on the group you are hanging out with, you are more inclined to do drugs. If you are surrounded by people who thinks drugs are bad, you will likely
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A study conducted by Pew Research Center concluded that about six in ten Americans are in favor of marijuana legalization. Marijuana use being illegal has brought danger to our communities. In addition to that, the legalization of marijuana would create a new field of business. The legalization of marijuana would also make marijuana readily available to those who need it. Marijuana should be legalized and regulated by the U.S government because doing so would make american communities safer, stimulate
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and strength of the effects. Festivals are events mostly situated in nature or deep in woods. These events include different type of spiritual and prehistoric music, with many different colors, painting, and art. These events are specialized for the use of psychedelics, and have different properties
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Marijuana has been around for a very long time. It was originally used for its great relaxing properties. Later on many governments banned the sale and use of it. Lately, there has been a growing debate on whether or not to legalize marijuana with people taking either side and arguing the risks and benefits of it. Marijuana has some benefits, however, there are some problems with it also. The problem with marijuana is that is hard to test, however, some of the presidential candidates would like
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ations, over 158 million people from countries around the world use marijuana. Today, over 90 million United States citizens have admitted to using the drug at least once. While these are just statistics, it is common knowledge that marijuana is one of the most popular, and accessible drugs in society today. So why is it “illegal” in the majority of our states? The United States Congress placed marijuana in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act in 1970 because the drug was considered to serve
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resulting in crop breeders being able to somewhat control the THC and CBD contents of specific strains. Dispensaries are stores that sell cannabis products for either medicinal or recreational use. Currently only limited states in the U.S. have legal dispensaries for medicinal use and even limited for recreational use. The only states that currently have operational dispensaries for both medicinal and recreational
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drug until the early 1900’s. Its known uses go back further than 7,000 B.C. and it was legal as recently as when Ronald Reagan was a child. America’s first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law “ordering” all farmers to grow Indian hempseed. The majority of the united states has not legalized marijuana however there are 21 states that have legalized marijuana for medical purposes. Four states that allow recreational use and the District of Columbia have legalized
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would benefit our country in many different ways. The legalization of marijuana has the potential to have a positive impact on the United States because it would allow the United States government to spend less on enforcing laws against recreational use, could possibly save American’s money on pharmaceutical drugs, and could create tax revenue for the United States government. BODY According to the American Civil Liberties Union, from 2001 to 2010 there were approximately 8.2 million drug related
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Kristine Chin Ms. Williams English 10 September 19, 2015 A Long Way Gone: Socratic Seminar Topic 4 Notes What does the destruction of Ishmael’s cassette when he joins the army symbolize? • Cassette symbolizes innocence/ his childhood o “The four of us had started a rap and dance group when I was eight” (Beah 6) Raps during childhood o Reminder of his childhood “We loaded out backpacks with notebooks of lyrics we were working on and stuffed our pockets with cassettes of rap albums” (7) • Carries
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