Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized Most people believe that drugs such as marijuana, molly and cocaine should be illegal. They say that these drugs are dangerous and that people should not use them. However, we have to keep in mind that people have every right to do what they want to their own body. Of course, by people it is inferred that we mean adults. Children cannot be permitted to use drugs because they lack the ability to fully understand the consequences of drug use. Adults have the capacity
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be a beautiful thing. Why Marijuana Should Be Legal On Thursday, 24TH of Oct 2013 The Huffington Post reported that a Gallop poll released on Tuesday showed that Americans for the first time in history, are more in favor of legalizing marijuana than criminalizing it with 58 percent in favor of allowing the plant to be legal. 2013 has been a changing mark in the success of legalizing marijuana. Two States passed a law decriminalizing the drug. Both Colorado
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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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Employers and Medical Marijuana: How Employers are Coping with Medical Marijuana Legislation Maxwell Schulbaum November 9, 2014 AMBA 600 Introduction Marijuana is perhaps the most widely known, yet misunderstood drugs in our society. While still illegal under the Federal Controlled Substance act signed in 197 classifying it as Schedule 1 narcotic along with cocaine and heroin (Chang, 2013). Despite this, there has been a remarkable shift of public opinion not only supporting the decriminalization
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confining this paper to discussing the laws prohibiting marijuana use, I will concede that it fits the first two categories above; i.e. it is by law, illicit, and by its nature, mood-altering. With the third category we enter upon shaky ground. There is no scientific proof that the prolonged use of marijuana exacts a greater physical toll on the user than the equivalent abuse of nicotine or alcohol. Under the name Extract of Cannabis, marijuana was once widely used medicinally in the United States
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Legalize Marijuana Should Marijuana be legalized nationwide? That is the question that many states and citizens are asking themselves. The main negative towards this movement is that it is a drug, but isn’t alcohol a drug too, and that is legal. What makes marijuana so bad? To the uneducated person, they will simply give you a answer of, “It is a drug and it’s a gateway drug.” Is this what the world has become to just take what other people say as gold, and not to question it. I say that this
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Legalizing Marijuana: An Ethical Perspective In today’s society, many ethical concerns arise on a daily basis, especially when it comes to the topic of legalizing marijuana. Many individuals have relied on the fact that marijuana was illegal, when determining whether smoking it should be considered unethical. However, many studies have shown that the effects of marijuana are not as detrimental as they were once made out to be. Legalizing marijuana can be an extremely controversial topic because
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The Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana, also known as Cannabis, is a psychoactive drug for medicinal purposes. The English term marijuana originates from the Mexican Spanish work marihuana. According to the United Nations, marijuana is the most widely used illicit substance in the world. In modern times, marijuana has been used for such cases like recreational, religious, spiritual and medicinal purposes. However, most of today’s people use marijuana for own self-satisfaction and psychoactive
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Position Paper: Legalizes Marijuana Paul Frenzel DeVry University Professor Spruell 27 Nov 2012 It has been said over many years of debates, that a person truth is their perception as they interpreted it. I would have trouble believing that a better statement could be found for the issue of legalizing Marijuana. With modern medical science not only dispelling some the myths but finding new positive uses for the natural occurring plant. However with the new positive information coming to
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Ty Heasley Professor Brown Sociology 1 December 2013 Legalization of marijuana The word "marijuana" has raised a concerned eyebrow in almost every American home today. Those that oppose legalization of the plant automatically believe its use is to smoke it, but those that do not choose to use marijuana are thought to be in favor of keeping it illegal. However, based on its economic value and medical benefits, the cannabis has proven to outweigh its negatives with numerous other positives
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