Form NAME: Tiara Jones SPEECH ASSIGNMENT: Persuasive speech SPECIFIC PURPOSE STATEMENT: To Persuade my audience to take the steps of legalizing marijuana in Missouri and to support the legalization of marijuana, because of it being able to provide many medical as well as economic benefits for the United States if legalized. THESIS STATEMENT: Marijuana has been regarded as a harmful plant that can endanger lives and is thought to be nothing more than an extra problem to be dealt with in today’s
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Legalizing Marijuana Autumn Donton Soc 120 Tori Taylor February 17, 2013 What are the prevailing issues for and against legalization of marijuana? Just because something is “illegal” does not mean it is bad; likewise, if something is “legal” does not mean it is not bad. Unlike law, ethics tries to determine what is right and wrong regardless of any law that may, or may not, already exist relating to the issue at hand. By 1890, hemp had been replaced by cotton as a major
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Christianne Marie L. PHIL 1 SY1325 PROF. OCHANGO POSITION PAPER “Should Philippines legalize Marijuana for curing diseases?” INTRODUCTION Definition of Terms Cannabis- commonly known as marijuana and by numerous other names, is a preparation of the Cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug and as medicine. (Wiki) Legalize- is the process of removing a legal prohibition against something which is currently not legal. Disease- an illness that affect a person, animal, or
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Legalizing Marijuana: Could It Help Society? Living in Colorado for the past year has brought up much controversy about the legalization of marijuana. Many argue that the legalization of marijuana is detrimental to our society. It can be argued that it is a “gateway drug”, that marijuana could lead to more incidences of drug-related incidences, and that if it is legalized it can be more easily attained which will lead to more abuse of the drug. On the other hand, the legalization of marijuana will
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The Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana is a very prominent and controversial issue in society today. Although many slanderous claims have been made about cannabis in recent history, the truths are slowly starting to resurface. Unfortunately, these truths are under heavy criticism due to the stereotypical view of what people view as the typical “pot smoker.” This skewed perception of a lazy and unmotivated America is the result of over seventy years of propaganda and misinformation spread by private
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LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA FOR MEDICAL USES The legalization of marijuana for medical purposes has been questionable for many years, and it has been an active debate in the United States even up to now, with many different issues on which people have many different opinions. There is opposition to the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes because it has the potential to be used incorrectly, however it is also considered that there is the potential for marijuana to be used in relieving
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Rebekka Sherry English 1108 Essay #3 28 April 2015 The debate for marijuana legalization has been getting more and more attention as more and more states are opting for legalization for not only medical purposes but also recreational purposes. Since it was outlawed in “1937 when congress enacted the marijuana Tax Act made it a federal crime to possess,” (Alex & Alexander pg1 13s) people believed that marijuana was a terrible drug that did harmful things to our bodies, and that it lead
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become controversial. Legalizing marijuana is a controversial topic; however, there many positive arguments to support the idea of legalizing marijuana. First of all, it’s very expensive to keep marijuana illegal. According to Jeffrey Miron, a senior lecturer at Harvard University who studied about the impact of drug legalization, it cost the government almost about 20 billion dollars every year for keeping marijuana illegal. There is no good reason for marijuana not to be legal. From a philosophical
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Timothy Miller The belief that Marijuana was one of the most important crops to the common wealth, continued throughout the 19th century. As production increased, more states like Illinois, California, and Nebraska began to grow Hemp, with more domestic Marijuana available, creative ideas for Marijuana use increased. In 1841, Congress ordered the Navy to buy domestic Hemp, and in 1843 they appropriated fifty thousand dollars to purchase American Hemp. Marijuana Production was a hard and tedious
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Was Prohibition Really Prohibiting? America during the early 1900’s was not the most sober of times. People were drowning themselves in alcohol. They would not be considered today’s “ I might have a beer or two” kind of people, but rather like “ When are we getting the next barrel of beer” kind of people. In fact, some would say that they were drinking up to three times as much as us today. Along with that, they also started drinking whenever they could because no legal age limit was set until
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