People against marijuana often use the point that marijuana is addictive. While this is not fully true, it is one of the main problems marijuana is not legal. Again, ignorance. No one has ever recorded that they had withdrawal symptoms after using cannabis, like people get from drugs
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issue which means bills, but having something so simple like Marijuana is worth it especially saving money. Another disease that gets treated with Marijuana in a type of way is Glaucoma. This quote shows how Marijuana is treatable in a way, “Marijuana use can be used to treat and prevent eye disease Glaucoma.”(Welsh 1) People have diseases a main one is definitely Glaucoma, which affects how you see and how things are just presented. Having Marijuana could help with it; the more it’s thrown out how good
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I love getting high. I need to. I do it almost everyday after school, to destress from my curricular activities and forget my problems. It started off slow, a little here a little there. 20 minutes a day turned into 30. 30 into 40, and all of the sudden I’m spending an hour higher than the debt ceiling in 2011. That’s only on the weekdays. If I don’t get high I feel terrible. Some nights, I can’t sleep and I have to escape the house to get wired. My mom tells me it’s getting in the way of
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Intelligence and Marijuana Use Intelligent quotient (IQ) tests are used to tell the level of intelligence of the person by asking mathematical and logic questions (Kowalczyk, 2015). There are different intelligence quotients for different age groups which are comparable throughout the different stages of cognitive maturity. A person within one standard deviation of IQ for their age group is considered to have an average IQ score. Heavy marijuana users experienced a loss of IQ points where
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Medical Marijuana Marijuana legalization one of the most argued and discussed subjects worldwide. The topic is argued for it to be legal for medical uses, and recreationally. Opposing these arguments are the ideas that it’s a “high potential for abuse,” and it is harmful to those who ingest the drug. On the other hand, don’t a majority of prescriptions, drugs, and medicines that are legal, and are heavily used, all have a “high potential for abuse?” Medical marijuana being legalized for specific
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and around the world. Those who support its legalization, for medical or for general use, people against it believe the others fail to realize that the greatest costs of marijuana are not related to its prohibition; it is marijuana itself. Every tenth of marijuana users develop dependence over time. They point to the fact that stopping
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Hundreds of thousand of children have been forced to become child soldiers. A Long Way Gone and Lord of the Flies both share an essence of innocence that they are forced to let go of. A Long Way Gone portrait Ishmael Beah’s young life in Africa as a child soldier. Ishmael, while away from his village he learns it had been attacked by rebels and cannot return home. When the rebels arrive at the village Ismael has been staying in, he and manages to evade the rebels but must be nomadic. However, when
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Many high school students all over the country know someone that uses or abuses at least one drug. Not only are drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, and methamphetamines bad for you, over the counter drugs such as painkillers can be just as bad. Some people even make the choice to use steroids to have an advantage in athletics or just to look more physically fit. Drugs have been a serious issue for student athletes for a long time and are still an issue today. Drug testing of members of high school
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Jesus Cisneros Block: 4 10/26/14 Medical Marijuana Medical Marijuana has been a controversial topic in America since the 1940's. Both sides of the argument over wether this Class 1 narcotic should be legalized or not, bring solid information to the table for debate. Medical Marijuana proves to be more beneficial than detrimental to a patients health over long or short term usage. Legalization of this drug could boost the U.S. economy into an upward direction. Although Marijuana can be helpful
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A hot button topic in politics for the better part of the last decade has been the debate over the legalization of marijuana. Now of course, each side of the debate has its merits. Yet, the fact is that marijuana has been used by normal, everyday people since 6,000 BC and possesses many upsides. Marijuana, before being deemed illegal by governments around the world, was once used as a major trading currency. Marijuana does more good than harm and I am up to the task of proving that to anyone reading
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