... been proven to have minimal negative effects, must also be proven as a positive treatment if it is to become legalized. Therefore, if more people become educated in understanding more about marijuana and its positive uses, it is only a matter of time before this issue erupts into a national debate. Statement of purpose Through various research and personal interpretation, it has proved ... affect the treated patients due to their current state of existence and their inability to be treated with any other drug that would bring them so much relief. (Budney) Medical marijuana is perceived a...

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... for many, many years and has been proven to be safe for medical uses. Despite its useful medical effects for relieving pain and nausea, marijuana is a psychedelic drug that will be looked down upon because of false claims about it. The value of helping the medical world would far ... out weight its potential to be abused. Even though marijuana was illegal, its use continued in the United States. Ernest L. Abel, author of the book Marihuana states, "In 1972, the National Commission ... be the plant that could save the world but we would never know it because the first thing people think ...

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... paying for this drug over the counter and therefore boosting the economy tremendously. Cigarette sales account for $2,885,663,000 profit annually, but imagine if marijuana were taxed and sold in stores. The profit that could result from its sale could have a major impact on our economy. This money would be ... going to the government as opposed to private drug dealers working in the black market. Along with boosting our economy the legalization of marijuana would open thousands of jobs for the unemployed across the country. If the plant was legalized, it would have to be harvested, packa...

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... medical relief"(Kieffer, Par1) meaning that the constitution does not claim to regulate or ban any drug. Banning a product or substance like marijuana will just make history repeat itself just like the Prohibition era when the manufacture or sale of alcohol was illegal. Kieffer quotes "We ... being said federal governments cannot regulate laws drugs but only the states legislatives can. Just like in California where citizens exercise the use of legalized marijuana for medical purposes to help cancer patients. The war on drugs has had a dramatic use when it comes in for the cost of ... ...

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... focus mainly on my qualitative responses because the answer to those questions give a more in depth view as to whether or not people believe marijuana should be legalized for recreational and medical uses in all states and whether or not they would use the drug if made legal. The ... she believes that the legalization of the drug would cause an obesity problem in our nation. Lastly a 26 year old Caucasian male stated that marijuana is dangerous because it causes people to be lazy and lose ambition. As I reviewed the survey after they handed them back I began to ... a new marketplace i...

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... society which to me, today's kids are tomorrow's future leaders, you honestly don't want the leaders of tomorrow stoned. If by legalizing marijuana leads to the future leaders of tomorrow becoming slow to learn individuals then the future of this country doesn't look too bright. As far as ... I found that proves this argument effective was said by Maia Szalavitz of Time Magazine who wrote, "So what accounts for the massive correlation between marijuana use and use of other drugs? One key factor is taste. People who are extremely interested in altering their consciousness are likely to wa...

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... "political world" we use "liberty" more often than those who try to exercise our liberalism. I am at liberty (freedom) to voice decriminalization of marijuana, as well as my fellow pot smoking Americans. We would like full use of our liberalism without conditions. Therefore I step ahead of the rest and ... . The executive branch would contribute towards the legalization not only because of pay raise, but because they get to put all the regulations on marijuana use, marijuana plantations; such as how it's grown, how much is grown, and who gets to be licensed to plant, grow, and process it...

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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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... increase the use of substance and further increase problems in society, legalization could in fact be more beneficial than harmful. Actually, there are several benefits with the legalization of marijuana and some of which include: making our streets and homes safer, increasing the economy's revenue, putting an end to prison overcrowding, saving our tax money, crippling organized crime ... , promoting health and safety, reducing official corruption, and using marijuana for medicinal purposes. Legalizing marijuana would first greatly increase our economy's revenue and promote consumer healt...

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... body weight. B. Patients suffering from cancer 1. 1 in 3 patience discontinue chemo despite a 50% chance of improvement because they cannot handle the side-effects of the treatments. 2. Marijuana is often the only way to help counteract vomiting and nausea associated with chemotherapy. C. Patients suffering from glaucoma 1. According to the New England Eye Center, over 3 million Americans currently ... suffer from glaucoma. 2. Doctors and researchers report that marijuana is effective in lowering internal eye pressure associated with glaucoma. Thus reducing the threat of blindness. D. M...

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... body weight. B. Patients suffering from cancer 1. 1 in 3 patience discontinue chemo despite a 50% chance of improvement because they cannot handle the side-effects of the treatments. 2. Marijuana is often the only way to help counteract vomiting and nausea associated with chemotherapy. C. Patients suffering from glaucoma 1. According to the New England Eye Center, over 3 million Americans currently ... suffer from glaucoma. 2. Doctors and researchers report that marijuana is effective in lowering internal eye pressure associated with glaucoma. Thus reducing the threat of blindness. D. M...

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... while legal immigrants may even be deported back to their original country (Nadelmann). Under the federal Higher Education Act, young students are forbidden from obtaining student loans if convicted for marijuana possession, while many other irrational criminal offenses remain undetected by the Organization (Nadelmann). Without student loans, the majority of college students could not afford a Universities tuition cost, so for ... student loans to be revoked for such a insignificant offense is rather illogical. The prohibition of marijuana, to contrary belief, leads to an increase in cr...

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... of the population approves of, to be illegal? One possible solution that is rarely talked about is the fact that the government could tax marijuana if it was legal. The tax could be something outrageous and noone would complain because the drug would then be legal. The tax could ... help pay for any problems that the legalization of marijuana would cause. This money could also go towards better research on the drug in order to further our knowledge of this drug. Non-violent ... number has steadily increased every year from about 350,000 arrests in 1992. Also, since 1992, over six million...

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... spent on enforcement, and will therefore increase our countries revenue and lessen drug related crimes. There are rarely any deaths caused by the smoking of marijuana, however cigarettes, which are legal, cause millions of deaths per year. Alcohol, another legal drug, also causes millions of deaths per year, ... possess, even when the use of this substance could cure their illness or prolong their life. Many people have been apprehended by authorities for growing marijuana, even though it was for their own private medicinal use. A woman in New York was incarcerated for growing a ten-foo...

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... others now available legally. There may be dangers to drug use, but there are also dangers in using alcohol and tobacco. By reasonable standards, marijuana is a mild drug compared to other legal ones, such as alcohol and cigarettes. Consumption of alcohol can cause deterioration to the liver as well ... harm others, as opposed to most crimes. Criminalizing drug use fails to reduce it. One third of those over the age of twelve have used marijuana (Nadelmann 1). Not only does making drugs illegal infringe on peoples rights and freedom to choose, it also creates a black market as well as d...

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... the other hand, legalization is the complete elimination of cannabis as a criminal offense no matter the charge. It would be legal to consume and have marijuana with nothing but some age restrictions and other safety precautions. The full on legalization is a possibility for the state of Virginia, however so is reducing ... because of the fact that smoking weed doesn't do anything positive for its non-medical consumers (Thimmesch, 2013). Many states feel that legalizing marijuana completely would add to the already declining state of our country. It is known that more people would pick up...

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... illicit drugs would be substantial" (Debate, 4). "The taxes generated by sales could then be used support health programs" (Scriven, 191). Ralph Nader, a 2000 presidential candidate said, "legalizing marijuana, would allow the government to regulate and potentially tax its use like tobacco products" (Brilhart, 2). Legalizing drugs would be beneficial to the government because they would be able to put ... drug-related criminals in prisons. Ant-drug laws have unfairly targeted minority groups. "Historical evidence suggests that the anti-Mexican rhetoric in general and laws regulating the u...

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... with him, celebrating my birthday. At sixteen he was well into the drug and drinking scene, but he also suffered from asthma. Smoking substances such as marijuana is extremely harmful on your body, but someone with asthma is at a higher risk to its harmful effects. The night he died he and his friends ... it was an acute asthma attack; nothing could have saved him- except for taking better care of his body. No one with asthma should be smoking marijuana. That was the one thing that may have prevented this tragedy. Some of the decisions my cousin made for himself were not the best. The a...

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... years. But when laws begin to affect a large number of white middle and/or upper class Americans, the laws begin to change. An example would involve the spread of marijuana use. There used to be Strict laws prohibiting the use of marijuana were imposed because the majority of users were lower-class minorities. But during the 1960s and 1970s, the use of ... marijuana spread throughout the young middle and/or upper class white Americans causing the judicial system to ease the laws affecting marijuana use. When the effects of a criminal law reach the sons and daughters of the white majorit...

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... are legalized and regulated by the government. Legalization will take time to put into place. You will not be able to go the local supermarket and pick up a bag of marijuana on your way to buy bread and milk. Firstly there needs to be a significant amount of money spent on the research of all drugs currently in the market in order ... to determine which will be legalized and in what form and potency. Although it seems as though Marijuana and Cocaine would be the two drugs that would be legalized, there has not been a sufficient amount of work done in this area. The long and short-term e...

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... and transit nation as the world's second largest cultivar of opium, significant money-laddering center, producer and distributor of ecstasy, major supplier of heroine and the largest forgiven supplier of marijuana and methamphetamine to the US market (CIA 2007) Still, according to Mexican law, not one of those actions are legal. With an estimated (and most likely understated) 200,000 people ... harness it and allow it to flourish, contribute to society, and legally contribute to the economy. In 2015, 15 years after the democratic transition, talks about the benefits of legalizing Mariju...

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... that, in addition to labeling the results usage of a certain drug may have, it must also be made clear which results it will not have. He uses the example of marijuana, stating that it is not dangerous and addictive, but on the other hand, how a drug such as speed or heroin is extremely addictive and have caused many deaths. It may ... a legal drug policy for several years. In the Dutch drug policy, drugs are divided into two categories: "hard drugs" (such as heroin, methamphetamines, cocaine) and "soft drugs" (such as hash, marijuana, fungus). When Vidal speaks of labeling drugs, we co...

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... has been a sixty percent decrease in alcohol-related traffic fatalities involving young drivers. (NHTSA, Feb. 1997) Since then, the number of DWI (Driving While Intoxicated) arrests, youth suicides, crime, and marijuana use has gone down in drastic numbers. In 1987 alone, 1071 lives were saved as a result of this one law. (NHTSA, Feb. 1997) There was also a sixteen percent decrease in ... is true that teens are going to drink whether or not there is a law against it, there have been substantial decreases in alcohol-related traffic accidents, crime, youth suicides, and marijuana use sinc...

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