... state and because it is almost impossible to reverse the laws. According to Ferner, Matt "Legal Marijuana In Colorado Has Already Generated 15 Million for Schools" Huff Post 20 Feb 2015. Web. 4 March 2015, since the openings of legal dispensaries which started January 1st 2014 15.6 million dollars in ... taxed revenue has been generated for our public schools, which goes to the schools across Colorado and buildings which are deteriorating. Most people say there is no turning back because the rise of legal marijuana on its way ... hand are the ones who are trying to put a stop to the laws...

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... Donald Tashkin, UCLA Pulmonary Studies, stated, "Taking a hit of marijuana has been known to stop a full blown asthma attack." On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known....[T]he provisions of the [Controlled Substances] Act permit and require the ... . D.A.R.E. is especially popular among the children themselves. Most D.A.R.E. officers are friendly, affable officers, and develop good rapport with the kids, who are charmed ...

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... Tashkin, UCLA Pulmonary Studies, stated, "Taking a hit of marijuana has been known to stop a full blown asthma attack." On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration's Chief Administrative Law Judge, Francis L. Young, ruled: "Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known....[T]he provisions of the [Controlled Substances] Act permit and require the ... . D.A.R.E. is especially popular among the children themselves. Most D.A.R.E. officers are friendly, affable officers, and develop good rapport with the kids, who are charmed by tal...

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... number are punished with probation, fines, and civil sanctions, including having their property seized, their driver's licenses revoked, and their employment terminated. Under federal law, possessing a single joint (or less) of marijuana is punishable by a fine from $1,000 to $10,000 and up to a year in prison ... live in public housing, the arrest of any family member for a drug offense can cause eviction of the entire family. Under state and federal law, mere investigation for a marijuana offense can result in the forfeiture of property, including cash, cars, boats, land, and houses....

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... time, loss of hand eye coordination, and impaired vision due to dryness. This once again also brings up the point of addiction. There are studies conducted at schools such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and by the government that show that marijuana has no long term effect of addiction in humans. It is free will that ... drug charges. Over half the men and three quarters of women in jail are there due to these non-violent charges. Possesion is nine tenths of the law is true. If caught with marijuana, the average first time offender is looking at mandatory jail time, and for what, a harmful...

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... to the prohibition of alcohol by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1919, but Prohibition was repealed in 1933. In the 1930s most states required antidrug education in the schools, but fears that knowledge would lead to experimentation caused it to be abandoned in most places. Soon after the repeal of Prohibition, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics (now ... substances. Types of Abused Substances There are many levels of substance abuse and many kinds of drugs, some of them readily accepted by society. Legal Substances Legal substances, approved by law for sale over the cou...

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... number are punished with probation, fines, and civil sanctions, including having their property seized, their driver's licenses revoked, and their employment terminated. Under federal law, possessing a single joint (or less) of marijuana is punishable by a fine from $1,000 to $10,000 and up to a year in prison ... live in public housing, the arrest of any family member for a drug offense can cause eviction of the entire family. Under state and federal law, mere investigation for a marijuana offense can result in the forfeiture of property, including cash, cars, boats, land, and houses....

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... for many reasons, including, that marijuana is an effective medicine and it has the potential to generate millions of state tax dollars that could be used to help fund Oregon schools and infrastructure. It is also the cause of far less violence, death, and health issues than its legal partner, alcohol. There are many people in the US that believe marijuana ... use and possession should be against law, yet they see no problem with alcohol use. Perhaps what I have to report would make those who feel this way change their opinion about marijuana legalization. The U.S. Centers for Disease ....

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... ,000 people arrested for marijuana related crimes were under the age of 21 (26). "For most of these youths, their pot bust is their first time in trouble with the law" (Rosenthal and Kubby 26). Perhaps not all of these youth arrested go to jail, but the ones that do get incarnated, have not only been victimized by unconstitutional marijuana laws ... billion per year on drug enforcement (Cussen and Block, par.25). If that money was only used for education, there would be more schools and colleges with more classes, smaller class sizes, and up-to-date advances allowing schools to be more e...

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... industry being run by the black market, often gangs and criminals taking in the profit instead of the government that could use it to make new schools, streets and public parks. Legalizing marijuana keep the police going after the real law breakers all the while keeping an unregulated market out of their control. While a flood of extra money and more time on ... law enforcer's side, the bigger concern of marijuana is its rising influence and possession in the hands of minors, especially since a third of high school seniors smoked it in the past ... ...

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... do to their body. Former Hawaii Governor, Benjamin Cayetano signed a bill on Wednesday, June 15th 2000, legalizing the medical use of marijuana, making his state the first to pass such a law through the legislature. While Hawaii joins seven other states like Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, Oregon, Maine and California, as well as the District of Columbia they are other states who ... was based on interviews with methamphetamine users and found users reported eradication had increased the price of marijuana. The users said they then tried ice, which was available to them. Law enforc...

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... and other harmful drugs, accounting 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 by vessels operating in the eastern ... from trafficking them. The reason why Americans are getting a hold of all these drugs are because of the many drug dealers that are distributing them on the streets. Under the law, anyone who has ever ...

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... government this simple act of plant-touching has something inherently wrong with it, and so does the consumption of this plant in the privacy of one's own house. Obviously the law is not there to protect others from someone else's harmful plant-touching activities. It is there to protect me from myself. There are many problems with the government thinking it ... to try other drugs after finding out that marijuana was nothing like how our D.A.R.E officer presented it to us. The D.A.R.E program is a bad idea gone bad, and many high profile schools (including my own) have canceled the prog...

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... are no help to reestablishing a healthy economy. If the states drafted a plan to save their budgets through marijuana, profits could be made and a positive net income to be spent on schools or social services. Much like in the lottery and state liquor and cigarette stores, marijuana could be sold in packs with minimal markup and could still beat out any possible ... be stablished much like on the street where a pack of marijuana cigarettes could be marked with a strength range depending on the strength of the plant matter. With marijuana a lesser problem, law enforcement could concentra...

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... believed that if youth did not hear about marijuana, they would not become curious and experiment with it. Therefore, in the 1930's, discussion about marijuana was forbidden in all public schools, and from 1934 to 1956, the Motion Picture Association of America banned all films showing the use of narcotics (www.legalize.com). The strategy did not work as well as ... drug ineffective. Marijuana, however, when smoked cannot be vomited back up, and smoking marijuana relieves the nausea much faster than any pill. Although the legal drugs are considered safer by law, there is a better unders...

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