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  • Cancer Patients Marijuana
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    Josh LaPlante Tuesday, April 26, 2005 Mrs. Cuellar Drugs and Behavior Making Marijuana Legal? When discussing whether to ultimately make marijuana legal or maintaining the current restrictions on the substance, it is necessary to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages the general public would gain by either decision. You can go almost anywhere and find someone who is either for or against this topic. Some say marijuana is harmless and has definite medical and recreational value. Still, others...
  • Crude Marijuana As A Medical Drug
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    The question of marijuana being legalized for medical purposes has been a very controversial issue for a long time. It's been controversial for the reason of the bad track record that it has sustained over the years. Marijuana is considered to be a schedule one drug. This means that it has a high potential for abuse, lacks an acceptance for legal medical use, and is unsafe for use under medical supervision, as is clearly stated under the controlled substance act. Many individuals who are highly ...
  • Drug Use Including Marijuana
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    What Is Marijuana Marijuana, a drug obtained from dried and crumpled parts of the ubiquitous hemp plant Cannabis sativa (or Cannabis indica). Smoked by rolling in tobacco paper or placing in a pipe. It is also otherwise consumed worldwide by an estimated 200,000,000 persons for pleasure, an escape from reality, or relaxation. Marijuana is known by a variety of names such as kif (Morocco), d agga (South Africa), and bhang (India). Common in the United States, marijuana is called pot, grass, weed,...
  • Irresponsible Marijuana And Other Drug Use
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    In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of Miamis demand for help. In 1981, Miami was the financial and import central for cocaine and marijuana, and the residents were fed up. Thanks to the task force, drug arrests went up by 27%, and drug sei...
  • Legality Of Marijuana
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    The Legality of Marijuana Marijuana, also spelled marihuana is the dried leaves of the cannabis plant. These dried leaves are usually smoked in a pipe or rolled into a cigar or cigarette. Some street names for this individual drug are pot, grass, herb, and ganja. Marijuana can also be taken orally in the form of food or drink to receive the same effect (Britannica). Marijuana is classified as a hallucinogen but not rightfully so because it is not as severe as some of the other drugs in this cate...
  • Medical Usage Of Marijuana
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    Pass The Weed The cries of conservatives across America has grown to a riotous roar. The problem is that the long-standing and unjust prohibition of the psychoactive drug marijuana has been lifted by voters in Arizona and California. Under the new law, doctors can prescribe marijuana to those patients who can possibly benefit from the drug's medicinal purposes. Used for alleviating pain and suffering, the drug can provide needed relief for many people. However, to the concerned, it appears that ...
  • Physical Effects Of Marijuana Use
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    Mary Jane: The Devil Weed ABSTRACT: This paper, entitled 'Mary Jane: The Devil Weed?' attempts to examine what we know about marijuana and what problems are associated with it suse. The paper examines briefly the history of marijuana legislation, marijuana's known effects, and conclusions about its danger. Early in this century, the government waged a war of terrorism on marijuana, or cannabis sativa. 'By 1937, forty-six states had laws against the use of marijuana, and its use had already been ...
  • Claims About Medical Use Of Marijuana
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    Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes In 1936 when Marijuana was made illegal it was considered a medicine in good standing with the American Medical Association. At the time Marijuana could be found in twenty eight different medical products and countless other consumer products. On November 5th, 1996 California and Arizona passed propositions allowing the return of medicinal Marijuana use. The campaign in 1936 to make Marijuana an illegal substance was championed by two large companies, Dupont Chem...
  • Medicinal Marijuana For The Millions Of People
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    Nick Locker English 101 December 2, 2003 Legalize Marijuana After 30 years of marijuana use being subject to such harsh penalties and unreasonable consequences, the world has not yet to agree on the truth about marijuana. I feel that it is a very controversial issue in this day and age with very strong and supportive arguments on both sides of this issue. The issue has caused a lot of political feuds, and it also has increased conflicts between many state governments and the federal governments....
  • Illegal Drug Users Smoke Marijuana
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    The Argument Over the Decriminalization of Cannabis The majority of Americans choose the same issues as the most threatening to the nation. Invariably among these one will see "drugs" as a major concern of most Americans. There is speculation that this is due to a perceived association between drugs and crime (Inciardi 1). A good deal of the argument over government policy towards drugs centers on the least unhealthy and most socially accepted of the illegal drugs, marijuana. Marijuana, scientif...
  • Marijuana Use In College
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    Marijuana can be found on every college campus in the United States and is the drug of choice coming in right behind alcohol. Harvard School of public health conducted a survey over the last eleven years and found that marijuana use in college has gone from 26.4% in 1989-1991 to 33.6% in 2000 (web). According to a similar study, the majority of students on college campuses that use marijuana will also participate in other high risk activities. This destructive behavior includes things such as ci...
  • Every Drug User In The Country
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    When and where will the senseless persecutions of America's Marijuana users end These Marijuana smokers are typically middle class males, between the ages of 17 and 39, and one in three have no prior felony charges on their records. (HRW World Report) However, each year, hundreds of thousands of them are arrested and thrown into jail, alongside murderers, rapists, and child molesters. The "Marihuana Tax Act" was passed in August 1937, and took effect on October 1, an incident which would forever...
  • Legalization Of Marijuana
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    There is no denying that the drug problem in our country today has reached epidemic proportions. The problem has gotten so out of hand that many options are being considered to control and / or solve it. Ending the drug war may not seem to be the best answer at first, but the so-called "war on drugs" has actually accomplished very little. Different options need to be considered. Legalization is an option that hasn't gotten much of a chance, but should be given one. It is my position that marijua...
  • Legal Pill Form Of Marijuana And Prohibition
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    Marijuana has been a very controversial issue. Many speculate that changes in the laws concerning the possession of marijuana (see Appendix A) are long overdue and our society can no longer postpone this decision. Three possible changes to the law (legalization for medical purposes, decriminalization for medical or general reasons, and full legalization) are being considered. According to an Angus Reid survey in October, public support for legalization is swelling in Canada. A slim majority of C...
  • Use Of Marijuana
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    Crime or Past Time According to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Presently, law enforcement arrests a marijuana smoker every 45 seconds in America at a tremendous cost to society. The marijuana issue often times goes in many directions such as legalization, decriminalization, and prohibition. There are good arguments to all three directions. The key to which direction to choose is not that easy. One must way the positives and the negatives of each direction befo...
  • Marijuana's Classification As A Schedule One Drug
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    Marijuana has become one of the most controversial drugs in America. Ever since its cultivation began around 1611, marijuana has puzzled people with its effects. Many question marijuana's classification as a schedule one drug. A schedule one drug is one that has a high potential for abuse and no medicinal value. Some argue that the war on drugs, in particular marijuana, has cost taxpayers billions and is wasting funds that could be used on more important tasks such as improving transportation or...
  • Known Consequences Of Drug Addiction
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    Foreword: There is no culture in the history of mankind that did not ever use some kind (kinds) of drugs. Despite the well-known consequences of drug addiction, millions of people constantly consume different legal and illegal drugs. Affecting people's mind and changing their behavior, drugs become one of the most threatening factors of social risk, resulting in increasing rates of mortality, aggressive and criminal behavior, and dissolution of social ties. This paper is devoted to comparison of...
  • Effectiveness Of The War On Drugs
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    Incarceration rates in the United States are rising at dangerous levels causing great concern for the future of corrections. Legislators are being provoked by negligent public opinion to adopt a "get tough" attitude on all types of crime, despite the fact it has been proven incarceration rate and crime rate are not inversely proportional. Criminologists have looked toward technological advances in surveillance and modern correctional facilities to combat overcrowded prisons. However, the solutio...
  • Marijuana On Cancer Patients
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    Marijuana Legalization We live in the land of the free, free to say what we want, to buy what we want, and to do what we want. One can get drunk, smoke a cigarette, and shoot a gun all at the same time with no worry of being punished (unless of course any of these actions harms someone else). These things are all dangerous, and yet all legal. However, if one was to grow a plant (marijuana) in his or her backyard and smoke whatever that plant yielded, they could be arrested. Who is the government...
  • Consideration The Decriminalization Legalization Of Marijuana
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    Decriminalize Marijuana For The Good Of America Decriminalize Marijuana For The Good Of America Decriminalize Marijuana for the Good of America Currently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inner-city problem, but in reality they affect all of us – users and non-users. I believe ...

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