... to chemotherapy, elevated eye pressure due to glaucoma, and loss of appetite and nausea in AIDS patients. Grinspoon makes the point that treatment with marijuana is very beneficial, but because it is illegal, patients must either go without treatment or commit a crime to obtain their medication. The clear ... benefits are extremely difficult to prove, and are at best anecdotal. Perhaps the most compelling argument that Grinspoon makes is that criminalization of marijuana use promotes disrespect for the law and is eroding our fundamental civil liberties. Grinspoon states that (in the yea...

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... it really doesn't exist. Hallucination can be used concerning medical issues. But usually people just use it for sensual pleasure. Is Marijuana good for your health? The answer is no. Marijuana has a long history of medical use, but if you take marijuana just for hallucinations, as many people in our society do, you will start to lose your brain cells, and also it ... alcohol and tobacco. If you use this for sensual pleasure, it will destroy your body and even your spirit. Furthermore, Marijuana leads to harder drugs. Marijuana has for a long time been called the "gateway drug." This me...

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... if consumption could somehow be controlled, it would drastically reduce crime in our cities. In order to clarify, I will provide you truth a few marijuana misconceptions. Marijuana causes no known brain damage short or long term. THC is not addictive unlike any other illegal substance. THC only temporarily causes memory loss of ... government is spending way too much money trying to control a drug which is incredibly hard to control and not worth the time. If Marijuana could be treated more along the lines of alcohol with age limitations and help groups it would make the world generally...

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... serious problems in society: accidents, lost productivity on the job, and wrecked families." Some say that legalizing marijuana will make things worse, and others say these things are only happening because marijuana is illegal. Marijuana actually is less impairing on you perception than alcohol. A study by the British Transport researchers says that ... cannabis combine to affect driving behavior suggests that someone who has taken both may drive less recklessly than a person who is simply drunk." If marijuana were legal we would be cutting back on crime. We would do this because by maki...

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... Mirrors: The War on Drugs And The Politics of Failure Bertram, Blachman, Sharpe, & Andreas. Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial Reinarman & Levine. Crack in America Zimmer and Morgan. Marijuana Myths, Marijuana Facts Section 1: Discussion of the Problem 1. The history of drug policy began in 1969 under the presidency of Richard Nixon. Nixon was looking for a way to decrease crime in the ... known as the Community Project for Restoration. This plan consisted of removing the bad residents from the community and providing them with opportunities for improvement. Bill Clinton believed in...

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... compulsive in exercising or even become an extreme sex enthusiast. Let me first talk about the drug classification called hallucinogens. This classification of drugs includes LSD, mescaline, psilocybin, and marijuana. These drugs can either be man made or grown naturally. Moreover they can be taken orally, injected, or eaten. Hallucinogens produce radical changes in the mental state, involving ... legitimate supplies, primarily veterinary clinics. Its appearance is similar to that of pharmaceutical grade cocaine, and it is snorted, placed in alcoholic beverages, or smoked in combination...

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... The legal acceptance of alcohol, however, does not exclude it from the category of a "drug," even in the eyes of the Food and Drug Administration. The prohibition of marijuana is historically counteractive and a direct defiance of First Amendment rights. This prohibition has denied thousands of critically ill patients a drug that would effectively treat their illness and relieve their pain ... is little proven danger of physical or psychological harm from the experimental or intermittent use of natural preparation of cannabis," and recommended then that the personal and medical use of m...

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... by pacifying the user, interfering with muscular coordination, reducing psychomotor activities and generally producing states of drowsiness lethargy, timidity and passivity." When also examining the medical affects of marijuana use, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "A careful search of the literature and testimony of the nation's health officials has not revealed a single human ... 1840 As the drug war hysteria begins to subside, it becomes increasingly obvious that there must be a serious re-examination of the laws prohibiting "soft drugs", such as marijua...

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... by pacifying the user, interfering with muscular coordination, reducing psychomotor activities and generally producing states of drowsiness lethargy, timidity and passivity." When also examining the medical affects of marijuana use, the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse concluded, "A careful search of the literature and testimony of the nation's health officials has not revealed a single human ... 1840 As the drug war hysteria begins to subside, it becomes increasingly obvious that there must be a serious re-examination of the laws prohibiting "soft drugs", such as marijua...

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... binge leads to crashing (anxiety, depression, suspiciousness, sleep craving) and withdrawal (absence of pleasure in all things, lack of motivation, and boredom). Many users take other drugs ( alcohol , marijuana , heroin ) to attenuate these effects. A dangerous combination of cocaine and heroin, known as a "speedball,"" is used by some. Withdrawal usually results in further use, often spurred by a ... it affects short-term memory and comprehension. Heavy smokers often sustain lung damage from the smoke and contaminants. Regular use can result in dependence. marijuana Section: History of...

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... the 1980's because the government began to realize the weaknesses of there approach (Caulkins, 9). The main drugs the government has focused on are marijuana, heroin, cocaine, crack cocaine, LSD, various tranquilizers, and hallucinogens. The goal of the war on drugs is to decrease usage by ... . Not only would there be more money to be put towards important issues like the national debt and security, but legalization of marijuana would also decrease or eliminate drug specialist's positions within the DEA and other governmental organizations. It is well knows that the government ... users...

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... pain of multiple sclerosis, to alleviate the symptoms of glaucoma, and to improve appetite dangerously reduced from AIDS, are only some to mention. Medical marijuana has taken its toll in improving the health of all. But why is it, that if some is caught in possession of this drug, ... The duty of a police officer is to protect the lives of others. They are not really protecting us when they are focusing on searching for marijuana victims. Marijuana is a harmful drug, yes I agree, but people are doing it illegally anyway. Not like they are going to stop because it is illegal ... Study ...

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... a product of the hemp plant and contains the chemical THC that is the most potent of over 400 chemicals found in marijuana and mainly affects the brain. a. Marijuana is a greenish-gray substance consisting of dried-shredded leaves and flowers from the hemp plant. 3. Most users roll it into a cigarette ... bong" or they can eat it by mixing it into different foods called "special food". 4. Some short-term effects of marijuana include distorted perception, increased heart rate, and a loss of motor coordination. 5. One long-term effect is the possibility of lung cancer, and many experts sa...

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... that admit to cocaine and heroin uses were Caucasian. They stated that the sixty seven percent of the individuals in the U.S. who admitted to regularly smoking marijuana were white, and that less than seventeen percent were black. The media regularly depicts blacks as the ones who are smoking pot, and shooting heroin, when ... January of 1920. However this Act was repealed in 1953 with the ratification of the 21st amendment. Then came the Marijuana Tax act in 1937, this made registration and taxation of marijuana buyers and sellers mandatory and imposed criminal penalty for failure to c...

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... in office. The media reported false reports of crime connected to drug use, which would gain him political benefits. Even though Ansliger admitted that marijuana wasn't addictive, he categorized it with heroin. He said it was " about as hellish as heroin". The Harrison Act had been under ... new bill was introduced that would impose a transfer and occupational excise tax on dealers. In August of 1937, President Roosevelt signed the bill, which would ban marijuana, and it took affect on October 1, 1937 (1). A dollar transfer tax was charged for registered users, and a one hundred tax for...

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... $BCT (J, when there were almost half million addicts, and 1945, when the population of addicts was around 40,000 to 50,000. The recreational use of other drugs, such as marijuana, cocaine, stimulants, hallucinogens, and sedatives are used frequently today in the United States. Since 1960 $BCT (J, the use of most illegal drugs increased wide renege of unconventional behavior, including the ... the 1960 $BCT (J and the1970 $BCT (J, actual use of drug did not decline. The late 1070 $BCT (J and early 1980 $BCT (J represent another turning point in the recreational use of marijuana, hallucin...

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... assume questions like this would be easy to answer. Should we allow people to just take drugs at will, whether they be soft drugs like marijuana or hard drugs like cocaine? Because society has changed so much since prohibition and the like we could ask whether we have come far enough in ... someone who does so very little for our society, to reap benefits that are typically afforded only to the elite, or allowing soft drugs such as marijuana to be used by those who are knowledgeable enough to make that choice. Taking the balloon out of the sales by decriminalizing might increase use or ....

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... types of drugs in today's society. Some are beneficial to society, such as medication, other drugs such as cocaine, marijuana and heroin are harmful to society. In America, these drugs are becoming more and more accessible by the public each year ... for 75% of the world's cocaine. In Colombia there are 50,900 hectares of coca, 2180 hectares of opium poppy and 5000 hectares of marijuana. Law enforcement and intelligence community sources estimate 65 percent of the cocaine shipped to the United States moves through the Central America-Mexico corridor, primarily ... easily being noticed, ...

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... 400 million tons of cargo. Another 157,000 smaller vessels visit our many coastal towns. In the middle of this large trade, drug traffickers conceal cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine and numerous other types of illegal drugs for shipments for distribution in U.S. neighborhoods. Diverse groups traffic and distribute illegal drugs. Criminals operating from South America smuggle ... through Mexico (they also frequent the Canadian border as well, but not as frequently as they do the Mexican border). These criminal groups have smuggled heroin and marijuana across the Southwest bor...

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... it did not prohibit the legal supply of certain drugs, especially opiates. In fact, even the people who wrote the Harrison Act and the Marijuana Tax Act in 1937 agreed that a general prohibition on what people could put into their own bodies was plainly an unconstitutional infringement on personal ... tax it is - by rather indirect logic- allowed to regulate what anyone may put into their own bodies. (Whitebread, Speech, pg 44) Marijuana was outlawed in 1937 as a repressive measure against Mexican workers who crossed over the border seeking jobs during the Depression. (Musto, pg. 54 ... ...

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... old and back in junior high, one of my friends was "into" illegal drugs. This one friend (I will exclude her name and just call her friend) kept insisting that I try marijuana. She would say that it would make me feel good, relaxed, and forget about situations that were troubling me. But I realized that after the effect of the drug, the problem ... and her parents were away for the weekend. She invited me for a sleep over and my parents gave me permission to go for that one weekend. That is when I tried marijuana for the first time. It was an experiment I will never forget because as so...

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... part of the demand side of the drug equation. The percentage of our citizens that consume drugs is not the central problem. Quoted from the Internet source, www.legalization.com/marijuana . The worlds war on drugs is corrupt. The drug war corrupts itself. One corruption was alluded to earlier disproportionate penalties that destroy good people instead of bad drugs. When laws ... as heroin, but actually delivered a legal product such as quinine the penalty for selling heroin would apply. No physical evidence was even required for conviction. In Ohio a sale of fake marijuana netted the de...

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America's Choice There are many illegal substances in America. Harmful-substances which include, But are not limited to, marijuana, cocaine, herion, LSD, exstacy and speed. One of these drugs however, is in fact very legal and widely available. Speed can loosely be put into two categories legal and illegal. ... other illegal drugs seem to turn their users into criminals and unproductive members of society. Speed makes you work harder, get more accomplished and above all make money. Now if marijuana helped to make people perform better at work it isn't hard to imagine the harsh laws against ...

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... p.1) Amsterdam is a city of 727,000 and total of 5,100 hard drug users. I must say those are good numbers. Would the Amsterdam model be a useful government response to hallucinogen and marijuana use in this country? Why or why not? Amsterdam's coffee shops and cafes are worldwide known for the tolerated exchange of hashish and ... marijuana. The United States drug policy stands by the zero tolerance rules. Our drug culture does not believe in any such thing as a use of an illegal drug, only abuse. So, ... ...

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... that, in addition to labeling the results usage of a certain drug may have, it must also be made clear which results it will not have. He uses the example of marijuana, stating that it is not dangerous and addictive, but on the other hand, how a drug such as speed or heroin is extremely addictive and have caused many deaths. It may ... a legal drug policy for several years. In the Dutch drug policy, drugs are divided into two categories: "hard drugs" (such as heroin, methamphetamines, cocaine) and "soft drugs" (such as hash, marijuana, fungus). When Vidal speaks of labeling drugs, we co...

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