Why give money to the scum of the earth when it can go to the government to aid in the betterment of the country .yeah? ... Teenagers this day in age have had the most difficult time dealing with emotional trials than have any other generation throughout the history of mankind. ... Television, the Internet, game consoles, and other leisure time activities utterly devour either the teenager's and/or the parent's time completely, thus muting any sort of family communication. ... Teenagers consider themselves to be helpless victims undergoing the tragedies of society, and that they must...

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The human cost of arresting, arraigning and jailing these offenders each year will drastically go down should marijuana be legalized. ... Legalizing marijuana will force the government to rethink its tough drug policies and this will go a long way in easing relations with these countries (Gerber 86). ... Research has shown that smoking pot daily interferes with the brain development among teenagers and can cause psychiatric disorders. ... Once marijuana is legalized, its use will definitely go up at all ages as it will be easier to access it and less expensive thus its abuse will increase lead...

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This is a scene similar to what thousands of teenagers will experience until marijuana is legally accepted into the mainstream. Teenagers like to experiment, especially with anything considered to be rebellious or outside the norm of society. ... Family farms are being closed at an alarming rate with over 300,000 such farms going out of business in the past 10 years. ...

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Therefore if marijuana becomes legal this can lead to less access to teenagers or individuals who consume excessively. ... On the other hand the government allows people to consume alcohol, smoke cigars and join the army wherein is possible to go to war and relatively is permitted to kill, without mention that you can join the military from the young age of 18. ...

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Apparently legalization of medical marijuana and/or decriminalization of the substance isn"t going to destroy societies and ruin their youth as shown by the trend in Amsterdam and the Netherlands. ... People consider it a gateway drug because adolescents often smoke marijuana before they go off into worse and more abusive/addictive drugs. Ask yourself a question, "What percent of teenagers who smoke marijuana for the first time hadn"t ever drank alcohol or maybe even smoked a cigarette?" Mind you doing that is illegal too, since teenagers aren"t old enough to drink or smoke. ... (WorkSh...

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Locals were paranoid about going into the out-of-doors. ... While most marijuana users do not go on to use more dangerous drugs, most heavy drug users started with marijuana. ... Marijuana in Hawaii is the second most significant drug threat to the state and is frequently abused in Hawaii, especially by teenagers. ... According to one study, marijuana use by teenagers who have prior serious antisocial problems can quickly lead to dependence on the drug...

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For the sake of argument, if the government had the moral legitimacy to control substances, there would be very little "controlling" going on. ... Surprisingly, years after the policy change, drug usage among all age groups including teenagers declined from 10 per cent to 6 percent. ...

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Great musicians (from all genera, not just rap) use marijuana to make their musicsuch as musicians like Tom Petty, Beatles, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, James Brown this list could keep going. ... Cancer is always going to be a risk with smoking. ... However, studies done in America during times when drug laws would go slightly laxer in a state showed that lethal crashes decreased. ...

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