After the legalization of medical marijuana, doctors instead of curing the patient’s illness by prescribing medical marijuana by law are generating a large amount of harmful side effects and addictiveness to patients. Even though, medical marijuana is legal and it’s passed by legislation, doesn’t necessarily mean that it cannot have negative influence on the society. Legislation by passing and legalizing the medical marijuana didn’t really maintenance the negative influence on society and side effects
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Society as a whole has always looked down on marijuana because it is considered a drug. What people do not understand is it can be used for medicinal purposes. Marijuana is more than just a drug people sit on the couch and smoke. The medicinal use of marijuana is the act of smoking the substance as a pain reliever prescribed by the doctor. Several countries and some states in the United States have actually passed this plant with a forward thinking perspective. They are looking further down the road
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The Legalization of Marijuana in the United States and the Positive Effects it produces for the United States Brandie N. Krantz Ashford University ENG 122: English Composition Instructor Imani Muhammad December 1st 2014 The Legalization of Marijuana in the United States and the Positive Effects it produces for the United States Marijuana should be legalized in the US because it would aid in alleviating symptoms of certain medical conditions, reduce the cost of manpower associated with prosecuting
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The Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana has become one of the most controversial topics of our time and with legalization just around the corner, it is time for people to decide where they stand. If we legalize marijuana, we are only opening up the pathway for more overdose and reckless behavior. Marijuana is an addictive drug that is just as dangerous as alcohol and tobacco. Just because the efforts to banish the drug have failed, that by no means acts as a smart pathway for
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Marijuana has been legalized in states like California and Colorado, congress has been involved since president George W. Bush and in present time Trump seems to be letting the states handle it, rather than the federal government. Trump’s Administration has stepped in and promised to “get tougher” on drugs including marijuana (National Review). Many people in the federal government would like to step in but they may not exercise their power if it was never granted. In 2013 Deputy Attorney General
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Jennifer Boyd PHY-105 Shelley Evans 05/08/2016 Should Marijuana Be Legal? Marijuana has long been labeled a Schedule I drug by the US government. A Schedule I drug, has no medical benefits, known to have high a potential for abuse, and is declared not safe even with medical supervision. How can that be you ask, when many studies have shown the benefits of the use of marijuana for certain medical conditions. It is prohibition at its finest, serves no purpose and is a violation of our rights
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Medical Marijuana In 1972, the United States put marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act. They believed it had no probable medical use. Since that time 23 states as well as Washington DC have legalizes the use of medical marijuana. The legalization of Marijuana has been an ongoing topic for the past couple of years in the United States. Several different opinions have been made but ultimately it comes down to people who are pro marijuana and those who oppose it. Some argue that
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Legalization of Cannabis Amanda Philmon Com 156 October 09, 2011 Diana Marquez Legalization of Cannabis The controversial issue of legalizing cannabis is a topic worth discussing. Let’s look at each aspect of health risks and benefits to the 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
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Article Rebuttal: Legalization of Marijuana BCOM/275 November 1, 2011 Dave Moses This term paper is to examine an article based on an argument to legalize marijuana. In this article the author looks at the benefits of legalizing marijuana. One of the first items that is examined in the article is the taxation that the government could place on marijuana if it were to be legalized. The author examines when the marijuana tax act and how when it was implemented in 1937 it had an impact and was
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was the legalization of marijuana here in America. Washington and Colorado recently became the first two states to legalize the recreational use and sale of marijuana. This article touched on how those states came to legalize recreational use, what the future holds for these states since they’ve legalized marijuana, and how the other 48 states can and/or will go about legalizing marijuana. One stated premise I found in this article was that Washington passed a law legalizing marijuana before
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