... year 2002, a survey taken in 394 schools with more than 43,000 students shows that 41% of 12th graders annually use any form of illicit drug and 25.4% of those have used them within 30 days of that survey. These numbers have grown since the year 1994, when annual use ... Americans spent a total of 7 million dollars on marijuana(www.nida.nih.gov/infofacts/costs.html). Marijuana is under the category of a cannabinoid along with the drug hashish which is an oil extracted from marijuana where one drop of the oil is about as potent as 3 marijuana joints. Marijuana can either be used ... and ...

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... marijuana poses health risks. It contains many toxic chemicals including some of the cancer causing agents found in tobacco. According to the National Drug Information Center of Families in Action they point out various health risks that marijuana poses. The harmful effects of marijuana on the Endocrine ... new support for medical research, not use drugs such as marijuana. Secondly, marijuana is a gateway drug. Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug in the United States and tends to be the first illegal drug teens use. Police Chief Lawrence K. Mahuna said, "In the early 80's, th...

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... because of its "very strong" addictiveness and toxicity. The authors point out that government's base their decisions whether or not to prohibit a drug on its ability to induce dependence. They conclude that the official classification for some drugs is incorrect."" These are two very different sides. Yet ... better in five out of seven comparisons of long-term damage to health. For example, the report says that while heavy consumption of either drug can lead to dependence, only alcohol produces a "well defined withdrawal syndrome". And while heavy drinking leads to cirrhosis, severe bra...

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... untrue. I am going to prove that the decriminalization of cannabis will have a positive impact on Canada's health care and economy. Decriminalizing the drug will allow suffering Canadians to use marijuana as substance possibly enhancing their lifestyle. Many provinces in Canada feel that their courts are overflowing with cases ... history when the Ontario Court of Appeal struck down the federal criminal law banning marijuana announcing that it fails to permit medical use of the drug. Judgement gave Ottawa one year to revise the law, or growing and possessing marijuana will remain to be ...

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... Psychologists study mental processes and behavior. Anthropologists would look into the cultural background of marijuana and find that Marijuana is the most widely used drug in North America after a alcohol and cigarettes, which are both legal. Both of which are considerable worse for you health wise. Anthropologists would ... (www.drug-statistics.com) if the Canadian government was to legalize marijuana they would stand to make an enormous amount of profit from the taxes looking at the amount of money coming from marijuana in BC. This money could be used to help with more illicit drug t...

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... as the Physicians Association for AIDS Care, National Lymphoma Foundation arguing that marijuana should be legalized in order to treat terminally ill patients. Many anti marijuana agencies such as the Drug Enforcement Agency and police department argue that marijuana shouldn't be legalized because there is no hard core evidence that proves that marijuana has medical value. This is what brings me ... is derived from the dried and cut leaves of the hemp plant known as "cannabis sativa". The main active chemical is THC(delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol). It is the most common used illicit drug ...

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... ; is used to refer to dependence in its chronic. Therefore if marijuana becomes legal this can lead to less access to teenagers or individuals who consume excessively. For instance, most drug dealers usually sell drugs no matter whom, their goal is to sell it and get the profits. So if the marijuana becomes legal then it would only be acquired in ... authorized places where it would be regularized and also there would be a consumer control that can help to reduce the black market or illicit business. On the other hand the government allows people to consume alcohol, smoke cigars and join...

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