“Don’t touch marijuana, don’t even come close to it; it will lead you to use hard drugs like heroin and cocaine!” This is the fear-based statement I always heard through my youth and is often fed to other kids in an attempt to keep them safe and prevent them from making decisions that they will regret in the future, but how true is it? Marijuana is currently legal for medical use in sixteen states, most often to counter the side effects of cancer-treating drugs. Unfortunately, marijuana is highly criminalized
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of Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana has been debated for decades all over the world, and it still unsure what is the best option for the people, either make it legal or keep it illegal like in almost all the countries. But here I am going to explain and show you some facts of each side of the coin. For the pro side there are many aspects that show how legalizing the marijuana can bring more benefits than keep it illegal; for example, there is evidence that show how marijuana helps some illness
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Health Marijuana Legalization 11-2-15 People say that marijuana is a helpful medical drug, similar in significance to chemotherapy. It helps people calm down and sleep better, in some cases. It has been helpful in suppressing nausea in chemo patients, and even helps with seizures. There may be a place for marijuana use in medicine, although that use is different than recreational marijuana use. Some say that recreational use it isn’t as harmful or bad for you as alcohol and other hard drugs. Maybe
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legalization of cannabis. Legalizing cannabis could have a positive effect on the crime rate in America as the statistics will show this. The most beneficial part of legalizing cannabis will be the economic gains that will come from legalizing marijuana. While there are some health risks associated to the legalization of cannabis the benefits of a decrease in crime and increases in the economy greatly out weigh the cons to legalizing cannabis. There are many health benefits and risks to
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The Economy of Marijuana The United States offers its citizens a vast variety of freedoms. People have the freedom to vote for their leaders, the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, and also the freedom to possess vices. They have the freedom to gamble away all of their belongings, drink away their livers, and smoke tobacco until cancer takes their lives, yet the ownership or use of marijuana is prohibited by law. In 1937, the Marijuana Tax Stamp Act was passed with the help of untruths
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Marijuana & Teens Easy accessibility has made smoking marijuana popular among teens. Some parents may disagree that marijuana is easy for teens to gain access to, but “the frequency of teens smoking marijuana has increased to 80 percent” (CBS News Staff, 2012). This percentage rate makes it much more believable that teens are gaining access to marijuana at an alarming rate. Many teens develop interest in smoking marijuana from either imitating the behavior of their parents, peer pressure, or
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Removal of Marijuana as a Schedule I Drug The argument for or against the legalization of medical marijuana has been in existence for decades with no sign of resolution. Ever since Congress passed into law the Controlled Substance Act in 1970, placing marijuana as a Schedule I drug, the debate has grown ever larger, with feelings strengthening on both sides. Recently the argument for medical marijuana has come into the debate, with more and more evidence supporting it. People in support of keeping
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Edwards 11/28/12 Medical Marijuana Legalization The debate over whether marijuana should be legalized has long troubled many American citizens. There are many political aspects that have to be taken into account when making a big federal decision such as this. However, long before America was even an idea, many cultures had harnessed the plant, and used it for many primitive medical procedures. Within certain states it is legal to use marijuana for medical treatments, but this
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Carlos Johnson Jr. Speech 101 Persuasion speech Marijuana is a mixture of dried and shredded leaves, stems and seeds and flowers of the cannabis sativa plant. This drug can either be brown, gray, green or purple. It has multiple names; cannabis, grass, marijuana and weed are only a few of them. Marijuana can be used in multiple ways. It can be smoked through a water pipe, “joint”, smoking paper used to roll it into, or as a “blunt,” which is a hollowed out cigar filled with the drug. It can
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Wr-121 2:00 p.m. Rise with Red Eyes Marijuana has been unjustly criticized for the past century. In the 1950s, the U.S. Congress was advised that marijuana incited, “many of our most sadistic, terrible, crimes… such as sex slayings” (Manderson 1). I myself have chosen to experiment with this allegedly vicious substance and have never had any deliberation of committing anything resembling a “sex slaying”. Possibly a slaying of a 1-pound bag of Doritos and a 12 pack of grape soda, hardly
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