recorded death due to excessive consumption of marijuana, society fears its legalization increases youth intake, health problem, and violence. In the article “Teens will suffer if R.I. decriminalizes marijuana”, the author Brendan P. Doherty argues that use of marijuana results in effect to brain, violence, and public safety (par 1). Doherty is a law prosecution veteran and a criminal investigator (par 4). He is experienced in operating drug arrests and interviewing teens, adults, and juveniles indulged
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The issue of legal marijuana use whether it be medicinal or recreational, is nearly impossible to avoid. Every year more and more states are voting for and passing their right to tax and regulate cannabis. Montana has a unique story when it comes medical marijuana. In 2004 voters legalized the use of medical marijuana by a 62 percent referendum vote. By 2011 Montana witnessed a seismic shift in marijuana law, commonly known as Senate Bill 423, or SB423, this bill made it much harder and less appealing
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the recent years of why the codeine ban is such a great initiative by the Australian government. From February 1st this year the Australian government and department of health issued that over the counter codeine sales will be banned. This means to use these depressant drugs you will have to attend your local general practitioner for a prescription. An outrage was heard and people from all over Australia, different ages, races and genders all believed they are being hard done by from this so called
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issue which means bills, but having something so simple like Marijuana is worth it especially saving money. Another disease that gets treated with Marijuana in a type of way is Glaucoma. This quote shows how Marijuana is treatable in a way, “Marijuana use can be used to treat and prevent eye disease Glaucoma.”(Welsh 1) People have diseases a main one is definitely Glaucoma, which affects how you see and how things are just presented. Having Marijuana could help with it; the more it’s thrown out how good
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I love getting high. I need to. I do it almost everyday after school, to destress from my curricular activities and forget my problems. It started off slow, a little here a little there. 20 minutes a day turned into 30. 30 into 40, and all of the sudden I’m spending an hour higher than the debt ceiling in 2011. That’s only on the weekdays. If I don’t get high I feel terrible. Some nights, I can’t sleep and I have to escape the house to get wired. My mom tells me it’s getting in the way of
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Intelligence and Marijuana Use Intelligent quotient (IQ) tests are used to tell the level of intelligence of the person by asking mathematical and logic questions (Kowalczyk, 2015). There are different intelligence quotients for different age groups which are comparable throughout the different stages of cognitive maturity. A person within one standard deviation of IQ for their age group is considered to have an average IQ score. Heavy marijuana users experienced a loss of IQ points where
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Medical Marijuana Marijuana legalization one of the most argued and discussed subjects worldwide. The topic is argued for it to be legal for medical uses, and recreationally. Opposing these arguments are the ideas that it’s a “high potential for abuse,” and it is harmful to those who ingest the drug. On the other hand, don’t a majority of prescriptions, drugs, and medicines that are legal, and are heavily used, all have a “high potential for abuse?” Medical marijuana being legalized for specific
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and around the world. Those who support its legalization, for medical or for general use, people against it believe the others fail to realize that the greatest costs of marijuana are not related to its prohibition; it is marijuana itself. Every tenth of marijuana users develop dependence over time. They point to the fact that stopping
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Hundreds of thousand of children have been forced to become child soldiers. A Long Way Gone and Lord of the Flies both share an essence of innocence that they are forced to let go of. A Long Way Gone portrait Ishmael Beah’s young life in Africa as a child soldier. Ishmael, while away from his village he learns it had been attacked by rebels and cannot return home. When the rebels arrive at the village Ismael has been staying in, he and manages to evade the rebels but must be nomadic. However, when
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Many high school students all over the country know someone that uses or abuses at least one drug. Not only are drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines bad for you, over the counter drugs such as painkillers can be just as bad. Some people even make the choice to use steroids to have an advantage in athletics or just to look more physically fit. Drugs have been a serious issue for student athletes for a long time and are still an issue today. Drug testing of members of high school
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