... systems, including getting high, creating a feeling of euphoria, or having stomach ache effects. It seems that weeding out can release them from stress and reduce social pressure. If a person uses marijuana in a proper way, it may decrease his anxiety and improve mood. Meanwhile, it can also enhance the brain excitability and increase creative ability, so people can make quick responses and ... his short-term memory and forget what happened the last night after getting high. As time goes by, he will find it difficult to learn or remember new information. Second, marijuana overdose will ...

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... his findings (Huffington Post, 2012). Miron's findings break down the revenue savings into different distinctive areas. 7.7 billion dollars would be saved annually just by ending the enforcement efforts to maintain marijuana's prohibition. Miron suggests that up to 6 billion dollars a year would be added to the United States economy. Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-CA), who introduced Proposition 19 to legally cultivate and ... all deaths for the year 2009 has legal prescription drugs positioned above half of all deaths which includes alcohol, illicit drugs with zero deaths being attributed...

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... this drug was harmless, but it has been proven that it can be used for medical uses. There are many slang terms used for marijuana, some of the most popular are pot, weed, cannabis, Mary Jane, hash, dope, bud, green, smoke, just to name a few. There are many ... . I also think some drug crimes and innocent killings would go down an enormous amount. Almost every American in today's society has used marijuana at some point in his/her life. Marijuana use is one of America's largest drug problems today. Our nation has been fighting the war on drugs since the 1960's; however, people ... mai...

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... health risk. These arguments usually take place with someone who does not know the facts firsthand and there for exaggerate a little. It has been said that one marijuana cigarette (Joint) which is 0.4 grams -half the weight of a cigarette, which is equal from 16 cigarettes a to a pack of cigarettes (20 cigarettes ... to this country, not to mention legalization would create about 60,000 retailers and about 100,000 jobs. Another major argument is about the effect marijuana has on the user's brain, according to many people "pot kills brain cells" but according to government experts it does ...

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... reasons that it should not. Through out this essay, I am going to compare and contrast some of the pros and cons of the legalizing of marijuana. Many people think that the legalization of cannabis would lead to health problems, such as, the use of a harsher drug and to psychological and personality ... The government seems to be always looking for new ways to tax people. Instead of spending all the money they spend on arresting people in possession of marijuana, the Government should put it on a shelf at the store and tax it like any other merchandise. Of course, just like acohol and cig...

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... Health Organization states that "it is doubtful the cannabis use produces amotivational syndrome." To sum up the article holistically I"ll leave it to the Advisory Committee on Drug Dependence, "marijuana's dangers had previously been greatly exaggerated." I've always believed in the free will approach on the consumption of drugs, but I understand the reasons why the government has put restrictions ... on certain drugs. After investigating marijuana I don't believe the government has any solid reasons on why this specific drug should be illegal. This summer I participated in legalization...

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... doses, anxiety, panic, and depression may be enhanced. Impaired short-term memory, disturbances in thought patterns, and lapses in attention may also occur. If marijuana is taken in very large doses, stronger distortions of time and space can occur. The person will start to see illusions, and they will become mentally ... that you want to quit. It is the hardest step to do, but it is the most important. People can become angry and violent when quitting marijuana, but you have to be patient with them. Giving up gradually is the best way. If you just abruptly stop, there is a very good ch...

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... is often as effective as NSAIDs or acetaminophen in osteoarthritis, and there have been no reports of death from cannabis.""(Grinspoon/Baklar, 1997, p.35). This statement clearly indicates that marijuana is a safer alternative medication to drugs already on the market for arthritis treatment. This, of course, is only one of the many beneficial uses of the drug, and properly ... in some cases implying no charges at all. Marc Schuckit, a professor at the University of California School of Medicine, stated in a newsletter that "the 1970 Uniform Controlled Substances Act listed marijuana as...

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... . An age requirement of twenty-one would be put on those who wish to purchase marijuana. There would be a limit on how much marijuana a single person could have concealed on him/her at one time. If marijuana were legalized the government could then heavily tax the sale of marijuana and use the extra money to improve drug rehabilitation programs for people who have uncontrollable ... their own choices. It would be like signing a peace treaty in the war against drugs. People who are against the legalization of marijuana believe the war on drugs is a never-ending campaign. They seem to thin...

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... society-beating out the economy, violent crimes, poverty, illiteracy, domestic abuse, and TV violence. I do not believe there is any reason that marijuana should be illegal. The government has done studies, but what they say does not support the real evidence. There is an abundance of evidence out ... growing up being a child of the 80's, is that drugs are bad. There has been a "War on Drugs" campaign alluding to that marijuana is the cause menacing our society. So this "war" has continued with clever advertising slogans such as: "Just Say NO to Drugs" ... legal. I suppose if the d...

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... revolted against prohibition. Yes I will agree that if any of these substances are abused, various negative effects can affect the user, but with marijuana (with the proper funding from the government) can be used for medical benefits, money used toward the "War on Drugs" can ... his bipolar disorders instead of the prescription drugs because he says the drugs are harder on him and make him feel no emotions. Medical marijuana is a very flexible drug, cheap, and has fewer critically damaging side effects than prescription drugs. It can help cancer patients with many ... such as heroin)...

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... sclerosis, paraplegia, quadriplegia, AIDS, chronic pain, migraines, purities, menstrual cramps and labor pains, depression and other disorders. For people with cancer, marijuana can even be life saving. This is because through chemotherapy, many patience experience loss of appetite and extreme vomiting to the point of where there ... people more concerned with peace than with the war in Vietnam. The government thought that this was due to the "horrible" side affects of marijuana, which left people in a dazed state, not knowing what they were really talking about (Cantil 78). So, the go...

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... cannabis as less of a threat ... than alcohol or tobacco." (The Lancet; The Lancet is a British medical journal). There has been a myth that marijuana leads to harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin. The cannabis-using cultures in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America show no tendency for other ... drugs. The gateway theory took hold in the sixties, when marijuana became the leading new recreational drug. It was challenged by events in the eighties, when all of a sudden cocaine was being used more a ... lot more than smoking pot, in which that didn't marijuana with the name ...

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... it will keep using it., and although there may be an initial increase in it's use, the number of people using it will gradually decrease as people get used to Marijuana and it becomes an every day thing. For instance, during prohibition people were still illegally using alcohol, and after prohibition its use increased, but gradually decreased and fit into every ... 's revenue. These solutions would have almost immediate positive effects on our country, and would positively impact it like nothing else seen for decades. The benefits of legalizing Marijuana are pure and simple. Making Marij...

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... remember her telling me that if the cancer didn't kill her, the treatments would. All this changed when we started providing her with some marijuana after her chemo treatments. Her appetite improved, she was not nauseous and her pain was reduced so much that the overall quality of life improved ... company just a few months longer. Meanwhile, the black market would disappear overnight. Some arrangement would be made to license the production of marijuana cigarettes. Thousands of dealers would be put out of business, and a secret part of the economy would come into the open. It ... inc...

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... of prohibition with the 21st amendment, alcohol consumption doubled while prohibition decreased use by 50 percent.(Light) They also cite that use of marijuana peaked in 1979 when there was a decriminalization of drug use by eleven states. When researching to find if a particular solution will ... be of use, it is important to look at historical examples and learn from them. In Liverpool, England, after a recent legalization of marijuana in a regulatory program that focuses on the medical benefits, most drug pushers have left town because there is no longer a market for them ...      ...

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... and it will increase our country's revenue. There are also many benefits that can be uncovered to help people if legalization of marijuana is given a chance. Legalizing marijuana would increase our economy's revenue. During Prohibition alcohol use was still sold and used, but people were doing it illegally. ... drug users in Trenton alone" (Long 128). All of this money could be used on better things. By lifting the ban on marijuana use and treating it like other drugs such as tobacco and alcohol, the nation would gain immediate and long-term benefits. This change ... income taxes.. Se...

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... this substance would save the government and its tax payer's money by decreasing the number of incarcerated persons who remain imprisoned for offenses related to marijuana. Right now, over 50% of convicts in the U.S. have been incarcerated for minor drug offenses, the majority merely for possession. It ... as narcotic awareness programs. The Netherlands came to serve as sort of the pioneer in soft-drug legalization when they first de-criminalized marijuana in the 1970s. Since that time, the number of cannabis users has steadily decreased, and it has also become the lowest in ... inclu...

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... and it will increase our country's revenue. There are also many benefits that can be uncovered to help people if legalization of marijuana is given a chance. Legalizing marijuana would increase our economy's revenue. During Prohibition alcohol use was still sold and used, but people were doing it illegally. ... drug users in Trenton alone" (Long 128). All of this money could be used on better things. By lifting the ban on marijuana use and treating it like other drugs such as tobacco and alcohol, the nation would gain immediate and long-term benefits. This change ... income taxes.. Se...

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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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... medicinally for nausea and glaucoma patients but the government can not tax it so it is illegal. There have been a large number of marijuana-law-reform advocates preaching for decades that pot is relatively harmless and has no negative impact on public safety. Studies done by the Canadian ... Senate's Special Committee on Illegal Drugs show marijuana is not a gateway to the use of hard drugs. "Data from population surveys shows that out of 100 cannabis users in adolescents, about ... 10 will become regular users and five will move to using other drugs". (p.3). The studies also show tha...

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... greater dangers, such as traffic safety, abuse, and other more serious crimes. The FBI reported that by 1996, arrests had increased to 9.9% of all combined arrests. Drug offenders, primarily marijuana, now constitute for about 23% of all prison populations in 1995 (Faley, Jonathan. (1997). Fact Sheet: Drug Data Summary. White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. 1-4. ... from http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov). Due to this, the nation's prison population has risen 5.2% (Gilliard, Darrell. (1998). Prisoners in 1997. Bureau of Justice Statistics. 1. Retrieved from http://www.mar...

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... drugs are seen everywhere, People know all about it, or so they think they do. The most popular drug in todays society is that know as marijuana. Many people have strong and different opinions about this topic, about the laws surrounding it, and also about the misconceptions that we know. Weather you ... to do with drugs. But to changing times and differences these are always being amended. The largest is set to take place this year. The DECRIMINALIZATION of marijuana. There is allot of ignorance in our society so I will clear up a few things. First, decriminalization vs. legalization; D...

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... United States which deals with the use of drugs, our solutions to the problem and our responses to the attacks against the legalization of marijuana. Although, legalization will increase use of the drug. However, many supporters of continuing the illegalization of drugs believe that by legalizing drugs ... end of prohibition with the 21st amendment, alcohol consumption doubled while prohibition decreased use by 50 percent. They also cite that use of marijuana peaked in 1979 when there was a decriminalization of drug use by eleven states. When researching to find if a particular solution...

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... the business of growing cannabis have created a stringent compliance structure that involves heavy security around the plants, inventory reports, and detailed delivery systems accounting for every gram of marijuana and every plant grown. This information is available to the Colorado authorities 24 hours a day. They are promoting compliance, transparency, and trust within the law enforcement community. ... while generating more than $6.3 billion in revenue if it is taxed like cigarettes and alcohol (Martin 2009). According to former San Jose Police Chief Joseph D. McNamara, marijuana pro...

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