... blunts over joints because with a blunt they can smoke more. Next came the idea of using a pipe to smoke marijuana. A pipe is used to smoke tobacco just like it is used to smoke marijuana. There are many kinds of pipes from basic pipes to pipes that have al kind of weird designs. The ideal ... the same material a screen door is made out of. The screen is used so when a person inhales the smoke they don't inhale the marijuana. If a pipe has no screen someone could suck a little tiny fireball write into his or her throat. Nowadays pipes are what people use the most to smoke ... marijuana....

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... people disagree with them, their whole motive is to keep the country moving forward instead of stepping back. In his article "We Need to Legalize Marijuana Now,"" Ken MacQueen wrote, "Persons using this narcotic smoke the dried leaves of the plant, which has the effect of driving them completely insane"" ... are just trying to get the things they want and need to survive that they probably would otherwise have if they did not begin using marijuana. Edmund Hartnett, deputy chief and executive officer of the narcotics division in the New York Police Department stated, "Opponents to legali...

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... put into pipes or formed into cigarettes for smoking"(Encyclopedia Britannica). The intoxicating chemical in pot is THC or Tetrahydrocannabinal. The use of marijuana has been practiced for thousands of years. Numerous different cultures have had their own different uses for the drug. Snyder explains, "Marihuana ... in smoke to your body it is causing your lungs to deteriorate. In the article "Facts Parents Need to Know About Marijuana" the author explains, "Marijuana users may have many of the same respiratory problems that tobacco smokers have, such as chronic bronchitis and inflamed ...

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... , the medical use of the cannabis plant goes back at least 5,000 years to ancient China. It was used by most of the world's cultures for its healing properties (Medical Marijuana Cases 1). Today such conditions as Migraine headaches, Glaucoma, Cancer, Epilepsy, Asthma AIDS/HIV, Spinal injury, Muscle spasms, Insomnia etc., could be treated for symptomatic relief with cannabis or cannabis ... ever being caught. According to a report from the Center of Juvenile and Criminal Justice, Californians" much heralded "three strikes you"re out", twice as many people have been imprisoned for marijua...

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... radioactive materials in the lungs. After time the radioactive materials mutate and become cancer causing. These cancer-causing materials are not present in marijuana. My friends that smoke tobacco all have bad lungs. When playing sports or just walking stairs they get out of breath. My friends that only smoke ... , patients with glaucoma, even headaches. Friends have said when they awoke in the morning with a hangover all they did was smoke some marijuana and the hangover was gone. Tobacco on the other hand has no medical uses. In my mind it makes no sense. Tobacco should be illegal and ...

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... Around 50,000 people die each year from alcohol poisoning. Similarly, more than 400,000 deaths each year are attributed to tobacco smoking." By comparison, marijuana is less dangerous, non-toxic, and cannot cause death by overdose or miss use. The smoking of cannabis even long-term, has yet been proven ... judge cannabis as less of a drug threat then alcohol or tobacco. Our public policies should reflect this reality, not deny it. All around the world marijuana has its numerous nicknames. To many it's known as Mary Jane, reefer, pot, cush, sticky icky, bud, chronic, and the sweet cheeba....

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... a new material that could be used for countless industrial uses would be made available, and thousands, if not millions of criminals would be released. II. Medical Marijuana The marijuana plant has almost endless medical applications. Cannabis has been proven to be an effective treatment for several debilitating as well as life threatening diseases. A. Can treat Cancer 1. ... Chemotherapy patients B. Treats Aids C. Provides natural pain relief D. Effective in treatment of multiple sclerosis 1. Calms nerves 2. Prevents spasm III. Other applications Along with the numerous medical applica...

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... immune system. Those so-called facts that were being taught to the American public were myths. According to John P Morgan the myth that marijuana kills brain cells came from a brain imaging technique called pneumoencephalography, which forces air into patient's brain through the spinal column, that has been ... is a statistical association between common drugs and uncommon drugs, an association that changes over time as different drugs increase and decrease in prevalence. Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the United States today. Therefore, people who have used less popular d...

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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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... future. Works Cited: Schmalleger, Frank. Criminal Justice Today: An Introductory Text for the 21st Century. 5th Edition. Prentice-Hall. 1999. Legal Defenses to Crime: Individuals are exempt from prosecution regarding marijuana for medicinal purposes. Most of these exemptions are in fact tied to state registry programs, which is able to allow patient's credentials to be easily verified. A simple defense to a charge ... of marijuana possession, the defendant will only then need to provide a small amount of evidence at trial in support of the defense, that this possession was for legitimat...

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