... of marijuana in the paper dated June 1994, "Issue 8 Should Marijuana Be Legalized as a Medication?" A web search reveals that Grinspoon is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard with a long history of pro-drug publications. A search on Voth reveals that he has had a number of positions with anti-drug organizations and causes, as well as a similarly long ... history of anti-drug publications. An interesting side note is that it appears that St. Francis Hospital in Topeka, Kansas (Voth's employer at the time this paper was published) no longer ... and for those who administer it...

• Word Count: 1189
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... Cancer, Glaucoma, Alcoholism, Epilepsy, AIDS, and Multiple Sclerosis. Medicinal use of marijuana dates back to the ancient Chinese Emperor Chen Nung, over 5000 years ago (Grinspoon 3). Until recently in history have civilizations considered marijuana use unacceptable and an act of intolerable proportions. The benefits of marijuana in the pharmaceutical aspect is tremendous, one affordable herb could easily replace numerous overpriced ... chemical component is THC or tetrahydrocannabinol. There are also a little over 400 other natural chemicals that make up cannabis sativa (Mechoulam 7). ...

• Word Count: 1279
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of lawbreakers. Current legal drugs such as alcohol and tobacco have a far worse effect on the body than marijuana. No evidence exists that anyone has ever died of a marijuana overdose. Tests performed on mice have shown that the ratio of cannabinoids (the chemicals in marijuana that make you stoned) necessary for overdose to the amount necessary for intoxication is 40,000 ... 5.4% were for marijuana sale/manufacturing and 39.9% were for possession. There were more than 700,000 marijuana arrests in the United States in 1997. This was the largest number in U.S. history. Of these arrests,...

• Word Count: 2648
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... adopted statutes that decriminalized use of marijuana, although most all of them re-criminalized marijuana use in the 1980s and 1990s."(Joy,17) Now that we have gone over a brief history of marijuana in the US we can get to the matter at hand. The most widely accepted argument for the legalization of marijuana is the medical use argument. Pain is ... here: The drug war mandates marijuana treatment, then its advocates point to the fact of that treatment to justify the drug war. Also, people who test positive in employment urine tests often have to get treatment to keep their jobs, and pa...

• Word Count: 2154
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Throughout history marijuana has been used to serve many purposes in many different cultures. The purposes have changed over time as the culture changed. Marijuana, whose scientific name is Cannabis sativa, was ... for glaucoma. A person with glaucoma has too much pressure in the eye. Greunwald says, "Reduced intraoccular pressure was discovered accidentally during trial on the affect of inhaling high doses. During tests intraoccular pressure dropped 45%." It seems that marijuana is the "jack of all trades" when it comes to medicine. However, abuse of the drug causes a prejudice against its ...

• Word Count: 601
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... , industrial, and restricted recreational use. When marijuana was banned in 1937, one of the main arguing points for its illegality was "Marijuana is the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind. Most marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations ... . Marijuana is a significant cause of emergency room admissions o The government counts an emergency room admission as marijuana-related if marijuana is found anywhere on the patient ...

• Word Count: 1594
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate