Legalization of Marijuana Derane Walton English 215 June 11, 2013 Victoria Stewart Legalization of Marijuana Can there be a show of hands how many people here have ever smoked Cannabis sativa, commonly known as marijuana? Well obviously no one would want to admit to a criminal activity in front of their teacher, but why is it that smoking pot is so taboo in our society? After all numerous famous intellectuals support marijuana. Al Gore is considered by many to be the leading figure in climate
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Marijuana is the most abused drug in the United States of America. People believe that by making marijuana legal it can reduce crime and costs of using law enforcement, but the reality is that making marijuana legal can affect many Americans. The cost will just be unbearable due to many addictions, overdose, and juveniles/adults committing delinquency acts because they are under the influence of drugs. Addiction will be the major cause of the United States spending money on overdosed people being
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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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Attempts to completely legalize the use of marijuana, whether for medicinal purposes or not, remain strongly contested in most jurisdictions. However, marijuana is safer than prescription drugs and alcohol. These two are responsible for more than 200,000 deaths a year. Marijuana is safe to use and will not kill you. Medical marijuana is now legal in a majority of states. A small but growing number of states and cities have legalized recreational pot as well. Marijuana still is the most commonly used illegal
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Decriminalizing Marijuana Some of the biggest issues argued about all over congress, the media, and in community is about drugs. One of the primary focuses of the war on drugs is Marijuana. What is marijuana? How is it used? Marijuana remains the most widely used illegal drug and stirs up constant debate everywhere. Marijuana, also known as weed, grass, pot, chronic, joint, blunt, herb, cannabis, hashish, or Mary Jane, is the most commonly used illegal drug in America. It could come in the
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response to the city of Miami’s demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and Marijuana. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug seizures went up by 50%. With that, the need for prosecutors and judges also rose which helped boost our economy (Thirty Years of America’s Drug War). Despite these increased arrests and seizures, marijuana and cocaine still poured into south Florida. At this stage, the root of the problem was the Columbian Cartels
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Running head: LEGALIZING MARIJUANA 1 Legalizing marijuana and why Americans oppose and support idea Melvin S. Walls SS3150 8/19/15 ITT Technical Institute LEGALIZING MARIJUNA
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states have medical and recreational marijuana legalized how long until Idaho is the same way? Three of the surrounding states have marijuana fully legalized, Idaho has voted on bills to get marijuana legalized in Idaho for medical and recreational use. The latest bill failed in the preliminary stages, even though so many people want marijuana legal for medical use only. We will look at how much it would cost, how we could use marijuana and how many kinds of marijuana have tried to get legalized. In
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Marijuana has been illegal in our government and governments around the world since the earliest days. In America, it is now considered as a Schedule I drug, a class that is up there with some of the worse drugs like heroin. People and governments look at the bad side of marijuana and consider to be a gateway drug. Nowadays people are finding that to be completely false. There are many benefits to the legalization of marijuana, with the current drug laws being enforced, it is causing more harm than
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According to www.drugpolicy.org, the first 10 months of legal marijuana sales have resulted in nearly $40 million in tax revenue. This is one of the many reasons that causes me to believe marijuana should be legalized. This is not the only benefit there has been to legalizing use of marijuana in the state of Colorado. In fact, there has been countless benefits from the legalization of just one state. I maintain that marijuana should be legalized for not only medical, but recreational use, for benefits
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