Medical Marijuana If a substance can make someone who is ill feel better, why keep it from him or her? On the surface this sounds right. People who advocate making marijuana legal for medical purposes take this approach. What could it hurt? A closer look reveals that marijuana should not be legalized for medical use, because young people are given mixed signals about drugs, other drugs can be used that are easier to regulate, and there are more harmful side effects. Marijuana is one of the
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government tried prohibition in the 1920’s and the crime rates spiked because people produced, smuggled, sold, and consumed the banned substance. The same goes for drugs. The argument about legalizing drugs has a push-pull correlation and always will. However, the reasons why drugs should be legalized have a stronger defense than why they shouldn’t be. The most heated argument out about drugs as of now is the legalization of marijuana. The financial benefits of legalizing marijuana alone are worth
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LEGALIZING MARIJUANA Legalizing marijuana in all states would benefit the country in many ways, such as Creating thousands of jobs, dealing a massive blow to drug cartels, which would suddenly reduce drug war ,provision of an enormous windfall for the government, which would bring in billions in taxes and save billions more on law enforcement (ending Prohibition played a big part in getting the U.S. out of the Great Depression),allow police, courts and prisons to focus their resources on dangerous
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Ultimately, the federal prohibition on alcohol throughout the 1920s served as a prime opportunity for the already established crime networks to expand their role in American culture and generate profits far beyond their best days in the gambling and prostitution businesses. Organized crime was structured on the local levels and did not have the systems of nationwide communication and dominance that grew to become commonplace following Prohibition. In essence, Prohibition was directly responsible
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In my experiences with higher academia, I have noticed a gradual sway in ideas regarding general approaches to criminal justice from hardline punishment towards the return of rehabilitation. Though this renewal is slowly developing, there still remains a great deal of social stigma in regards to drug use, whether or not the user would be classified as an addict. Established through the insights of the information provided though this course, there are some plausible adjustments to political, educational
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solutions like legalizing marijuana, which might seem outrageous to the average propaganda brainwashed American, but when you look at the real facts, the consequences are not that desperate compared to the benefits, and the current economical situation. Seems to me that legalizing that “devils weed” might just be the best way to climb out of this crisis. To give you some background info on this drug, were going to start from the beginning. During the 1900’s, the popularity of marijuana grew outrageously
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drink substances that make them feel relaxed, stimulated, or euphoric. Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 BC in China. As time went by, "home remedies" were discovered and used to alleviate aches, pains and other ailments. Most of these preparations were herbs, roots, mushrooms or fungi. They had to be eaten, drunk, rubbed
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According to marijuana Addiction Treatment, the National Survey on Drug Use and Health reports that nearly 40 percent of the U.S. population above the age of 12 has used marijuana at some point (2011). The statistics of using marijuana was shocking for me and it made me get interested in various drug issues and the drug policy in America. When I was searching for the drugs, I realized that legalization of marijuana is the hottest issue recently in America. So, I want to discuss about the legalization
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In the perspective of America's war on drugs, marijuana is one of the biggest enemies. And since alcohol and tobacco, two life threatening substances, are legal it is a relevant question to ask why marijuana is illegal. The taxpayers of America can partly answer this question when they fill out their tax forms and when they hear the hash rhetoric used against marijuana by the government. The fact that marijuana is illegal is sufficiently caused by the amount of money, jobs, and pride invested in
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up the topic of marijuana legalization on several indexes of editorials online, I found many interesting sources, including: “Arresting the Drug Laws”, by David Silverberg (2005, p.33), “Limited victory for medical cannabis”, by Andy Coghlan (2003, p.13), and “What Do Student Drug Use Surveys Really Mean?”, by Mike A. Males (2005, pp.31-33). In, “Arresting the Drug Laws”, David Silverberg (2005, p.33) talks about an organization called LEAP, or Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. He starts off
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