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  • People Smoke Marijuana
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    Sociology 1010 The Legalization of Marijuana Yes, I believe it is a great idea to legalize marijuana. What a great idea! Think of all the good benefits that could come about. The government could tax marijuana like they do tobacco, and it could help our economy out. Think of all the money that could be gathered with this taxing. The prison and jail populations would decline simply because a number of people in prison are there solely because of a marijuana conviction. This would cost tax payers ...
  • Toxins In Wild Plants Like Marijuana
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    THE RECREATIONAL POISON The debate is whether or not marijuana and other drugs should be legalized for personal use. The marijuana plant may serve several beneficial uses to us, but there is one use in which it is only harmful. Marijuana should not be legalized for personal use because people do not understand, or care about the effects it causes on them and the people around them. While the War on Drugs attempts to dissuade people from using drugs primarily in economic terms (Boyle, 3), I want ...
  • People Use Drugs
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    Drugs in America Today in America a lot of young people experiment with illegal drugs. Some people try drugs for recreational purposes, others are addicted to drugs and can't survive without them. Usually it all starts from recreational purposes, and people who can not control their recreation become a drug addicts. There are many different types of drugs, but all drugs are similar in that they change one's understanding of the environment, feelings, senses and mood. Some drugs cause physical ad...
  • High Prices Cause Drug Addicts
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    REFORM DRUG LAWS This paper will prove that Americas drug laws are ineffective and cause more harm than good. The notion that a state of freedom exists in America is completely voided by narcotic laws. Narcotic laws cause a black market, which raises the prices of drugs to astronomical levels. These high prices cause drug addicts to turn to crime in order to support their habit. There exists substantial evidence that marijuana is less harmful than legal product like alcohol or nicotine. The war ...
  • Non Medical Use Of Drugs
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    In 1900 there were more people addicted to drugs in this country than there are today. Charles White bread said in a speech at the California Judges Association 1995 annual conference that there were between two and five percent of the entire adult population of the United States addicted to drugs in 1900. There were two principal causes of this dramatic level of drug addiction at the turn of the century. The first cause was the use of morphine and its various derivatives in legitimate medical o...
  • Legalization Of Marijuana For Medical Use
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    In today's world, most families have a love one struggling to live with cancer, HIV, glaucoma, or multiple sclerosis. Most of us, here in the United States, have watched a love one endure the pain of chemotherapy, uncontrollable muscle spasms, or blindness. Our love ones not only suffer physical pain, but mental anguish as well. Our dying loves ones are at war with our Federal Government. They are fighting for a chance at a better quality of life. They are fighting for the legalization of mariju...
  • Legalized Soft Drugs In Amsterdam
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    Economics of Legalized Marijuana in Amsterdam 1. What resources are involved in legalized soft drugs in Amsterdam? There are many resources involved in the market of soft drugs. Whether it be human resources or the plants itself. The use of cannabis products has been legalized; every town has at least one "hash and coffee shop", and the possession of less than 30 grams is not prosecuted by the police. In spite of the liberalization of the use of soft drugs, trafficking in cannabis products is st...
  • Dangers Of Drug Use
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    Decriminalization vs. Prohibition The idea of Drug Prohibition made sense: lower the availability of drugs by the use of law enforcement. Unfortunately, Drug Prohibition means heavy costs while proving to be ineffective and counterproductive. I was thirteen when I saw drugs for the first time. I was with some of my friends that live down the road from me. They asked me if I wanted to get high with them. At the time, I didn't know what getting high meant, so I asked them. One of them pulled ut a ...
  • Legal Drugs In Use
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    Why Drugs Should Be Legalized! Man, as a creature, is inherently bored. Since the dawn of time, it has been the natural instinct of man to find alternative methods to enhance his being. The many means by which man has turned to include sex, gambling, and the consumption of substances beyond the requirements of nutrition. The consumption of substances can be further broken down into legal and illegal substances. The question then becomes, who are we to place labels on certain substances by deemin...
  • Legalization Of Marijuana
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    There is a large drug problem facing the United States today, and this problem extends to all citizens. Its not just the poor and the uneducated who are effected by this problem. The most largely used illegal drug in the United States is Marijuana, and thus is the drug law enforcement and the media tends to target the most, costing the taxpayers lots and lots of money. I will show you that Marijuana is not as large and evil as it may appear, and that if legalized the economy would be strengthene...
  • People In Jail For Drug Use
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    ... This nation's so-called war on drugs has been a miserable failure. It hasn't'worked. The drug problem is getting worse. I think it is the number one problem facing this country today. I think that we as people and our politicians really need to put all of our options into perspective, and one of the things we need to talk about. Common sense or logic would dictate that when you take this issue on, when you talk about legalization or decriminalization, if you are going to talk about that, you...
  • First Drugs
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    substance Abuse Substance abuse is just one of the problems facing the United States today. Even though it seems like a big problem, it actually first started in the 1800's when the first drugs were smuggled. This only began the never ending path of illegal drugs flowing through the U.S. In the 1950's, a therapeutic drug was introduced called Phencyclidine (PCP), later nicknamed angle dust. Doctors soon found that the drug caused hallucinogenic side effects. It was then pulled. The drug soon rea...
  • Gateway Between Marijuana And Hard Drugs
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    Kelsey Liles Pat Patterson Engl. 1301.0816 March 2002 American Drug Abuse Our society has found itself directly in the middle of a transcontinental drug surge. An estimated 23 million of the world's population regularly take illicit drugs, and the Drug Enforcement Administration estimated that 13.6 million of those who habitually used illegal drugs in 1998 were Americans. Even in our current everyday motions of life and productivity, we have set the path for self-destruction. "We awake to the ki...
  • Drugs Throughout The 1980's
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    History Colombia was one of the three original countries along with Ecuador and Venezuela that emerged from the collapse of Gran Colombia in 1830. Over the last 40 years, there has been a campaign to overthrow the government partially because of the drug trades throughout Colombia. The movement does however lack support from military and support from the necessary influences. In recent years, there have been challenges for control of the territories throughout Colombia and also for the drug trad...
  • Current General Drug Policies
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    Lately it seems that drug policy and the war on drugs has been in the headlines quite a lot. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the policies that the United States government takes against illegal drugs are coming into question. The mainstream media is catching on to the message of organizations and individuals who have long been considered liberal 'Counter Culture's up porters. The marijuana question seems to be the most prevalent and pressed of the drugs and issues that are currently be...
  • Use Of Marijuana
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    Thesis Marijuana is a substance that has become very much a part of American culture. Nearly 65 million Americans have either used it occasionally or regularly. The use of marijuana hit mainstream America about thirty years ago and it has been accepted by a large segment of society ever since (Rosenthal 16). The debate on whether this substance should be legalized or not remains avery hot topic today. Despite government efforts to isolate and eliminate its use, it is clear that the use of mariju...
  • Marijuana And Thc Preparations
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    Marijuana is the common name given to any drug preparation from the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa. Various forms of this drug are known by different names throughout the world, such as kif in Morocco, d agga in South Africa, and ganja in India. In Western culture, cannabis preparations have acquired a variety of slang names, including grass, pot, tea, reefer, weed, and Mary Jane. Cannabis can be smoked, eaten in cakes, and drank in beverages. In Western cultures marijuana is prepared most often as...
  • Thc Receptor Site In The Brain
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    Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug. It is considered to be a drug that is very addictive, and bad for you. Even though scientists have proven that it is not addictive, and that it is really no worse for you than other socially acceptable drugs like caffeine, tobacco, and alcohol. There are many common myths about it, and about the people who use it. Some of which include, that marijuana is a gateway drug that leads to the use of harder drugs like heroin, LSD, and cocaine. Others say ...
  • Marijuana Tax Act
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    In this attempt to define Marijuana this paper will discuss it in all aspects possible, including street / slang terms, how it is used, what it is used for, and how it affects the body. Mainly due to its variety of uses, Cannabis has been taken across the Globe. We cannot know for certain which use of the plant came first, but remains of hemp fibers have been found in the earliest archeological sites in Asia. "There is evidence of fiber in China dating from 4000 B.C., and hemp rope and thread fr...
  • Marijuana For Medical Use
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    Fredrick Campbell, an attorney, stated legalizers's pir it perfectly by stating, "Legalization would not mean that addictive drugs would be legally available to everyone. The purpose of legalization would be to place better controls on access to such drugs. Addiction would be recognized as a disease or physical addiction... For non-addicts, the substances would remain illegal in the some way that it is now criminal to sell or use prescription drugs without a prescription". Legalization simply me...

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