Ever since Colorado Government passed the laws to bring legal marijuana to our state there has been an uprise in conflict throughout the state, because there are many people for it and there are many people who are against it. ... Ever since Amendment 64 "The regulate marijuana like alcohol" law has passed people around our state have not only taken advantage of this but a lot of people have continued to do it illegally because of how easy it is to access. ... Affecting people just right outside of their homes which brings up the issue of property owners rights. ... One being the i...

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Just following the turn of the century, a new climate of temperance swept the nation and in 1914 Congress passed the Harrison Act, banning opiates and cocaine, and the prohibition of alcohol soon followed in 1918, making the U.S. officially a "dry" nation. ... The lawsuit was filed January 14, weeks after several advisors of the Clinton Administration made a public response to Proposition 215 (which would, were it to pass, make it legal for doctors to discuss and recommend marijuana to their patients) at a December 30 press conference. ... (ACLU) Between 1978 and 1996, legislature in 34 sta...

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Why do we use drugs? There are many different opinions as to why people use drugs. Some of the most widely used drugs today are heroine, cocaine, nicotine, alcohol, and marijuana. These drugs each have there own history, and they all have addictive qualities. Heroine comes from the opium poppy...

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Possession of marijuana was made a crime within the United States in 1937 when Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act. ... The prohibition of marijuana increases the incidence of crime, has huge economic cost, and prevents medical patients from benefiting from the drug's therapeutic properties. ...

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A fact: marijuana is one of the safest drugs on the market. It causes no deaths per year whereas aspirin causes two thousand deaths per year (Rosenthal 56). Pot, another name for marijuana, is a drug made from the dried leaves and flowering tops of hemp plants. It has many psychological and physica...

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Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act, which effectively criminalized marijuana. ... United States allows the use of alcohol and tobacco which do nothing but harm people, but will not allow the consumption of an herb that has medicinal properties. ...

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Definition The use of illicit or illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a manner or in quantities other than directed. History of Drug Abuse Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 B.C. in China. But not until the 19th cent. A.D. were the active substances in drugs extracted. ...

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The Legalization of Marijuana for All Purposes Drugs are major problem in our society today. Although the Canadian government has taken measures against drugs, in stiffening laws concerning the cultivation and trafficking of drugs and various media awareness programs, the problem continues to get worse. The government is exercising many options to control the problem or even solve the problem. It seems as if the "war on drugs" is a futile war or at least next to impossible to win. The government should consider using different options than ones they have used in the past. ...

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