... to end the illegal drug traffic within and across the US borders and to stop the consumption of these illegal drugs, of which marijuana is the largest contributor and most widely consumed. Despite the billions of dollars spent trying to stop the supply and demand of these ... other like ailments as glaucoma, muscle spasms, intractable pain, epilepsy, anorexia, asthma, insomnia, depression, and other disorders. Dan Shapiro has gotten relief from marijuana. "When Dan Shapiro was diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease in 1987, he called a friend who had also battled cancer. His friend's advice, S...

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... to chemotherapy, elevated eye pressure due to glaucoma, and loss of appetite and nausea in AIDS patients. Grinspoon makes the point that treatment with marijuana is very beneficial, but because it is illegal, patients must either go without treatment or commit a crime to obtain their medication. The clear ... benefits are extremely difficult to prove, and are at best anecdotal. Perhaps the most compelling argument that Grinspoon makes is that criminalization of marijuana use promotes disrespect for the law and is eroding our fundamental civil liberties. Grinspoon states that (in the yea...

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... it really doesn't exist. Hallucination can be used concerning medical issues. But usually people just use it for sensual pleasure. Is Marijuana good for your health? The answer is no. Marijuana has a long history of medical use, but if you take marijuana just for hallucinations, as many people in our society do, you will start to lose your brain cells, and also it ... alcohol and tobacco. If you use this for sensual pleasure, it will destroy your body and even your spirit. Furthermore, Marijuana leads to harder drugs. Marijuana has for a long time been called the "gateway drug." This me...

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... if consumption could somehow be controlled, it would drastically reduce crime in our cities. In order to clarify, I will provide you truth a few marijuana misconceptions. Marijuana causes no known brain damage short or long term. THC is not addictive unlike any other illegal substance. THC only temporarily causes memory loss of ... government is spending way too much money trying to control a drug which is incredibly hard to control and not worth the time. If Marijuana could be treated more along the lines of alcohol with age limitations and help groups it would make the world generally...

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... serious problems in society: accidents, lost productivity on the job, and wrecked families." Some say that legalizing marijuana will make things worse, and others say these things are only happening because marijuana is illegal. Marijuana actually is less impairing on you perception than alcohol. A study by the British Transport researchers says that ... cannabis combine to affect driving behavior suggests that someone who has taken both may drive less recklessly than a person who is simply drunk." If marijuana were legal we would be cutting back on crime. We would do this because by maki...

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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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... young adults. Indeed, 35% of people between ages 12 and 18 have tried marijuana. Experimentation with marijuana is dangerous because studies show that regular marijuana smokers developed a tolerance to its effects, and that 55% of people who smoke marijuana on a regular basis move on to try harder drugs soon after. Effects of marijuana use include a general diminished ambition and motivation in the user. Moreover, use ... long run, it may cause lung cancer and other respiratory problems to first and second hand smokers. However, pro-marijuana lobbying groups argue that marijuana should ...

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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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... 000054% of all deaths. Out of the 44,727 drug related deaths (which include glue sniffing, use of opiates, etc.), 23 were related to marijuana (meaning that marijuana was present either at time of death or in the system). To help put this number into perspective, in the same timeframe 30,150 people have ... unit. The total income in 1997 for 263,250 units of corn was reported to be $671,288. If one does the math, if as many units of marijuana were produced in Michigan as were units of corn, sold for even half of the street retail price this would show a total income of $334,854,000. ... ...

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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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... a product of the hemp plant and contains the chemical THC that is the most potent of over 400 chemicals found in marijuana and mainly affects the brain. a. Marijuana is a greenish-gray substance consisting of dried-shredded leaves and flowers from the hemp plant. 3. Most users roll it into a cigarette ... bong" or they can eat it by mixing it into different foods called "special food". 4. Some short-term effects of marijuana include distorted perception, increased heart rate, and a loss of motor coordination. 5. One long-term effect is the possibility of lung cancer, and many experts sa...

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... we have been soft on drug crime. Our prisons are filled with people found guilty of possessing a few grams of cocaine or an ounce of marijuana. Nor is it likely that escalating punishment further will help: The Chinese shoot heroin traffickers in the back of the head, then send the family ... therefore separated from the market of hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin."(http://www.mpp.org 04). This proves that marijuana prohibition may increase the likelihood that marijuana users will use hard drugs. Prohibition is at obvious fault. Every year we spend about 40 billion dollars on attemp...

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... assume questions like this would be easy to answer. Should we allow people to just take drugs at will, whether they be soft drugs like marijuana or hard drugs like cocaine? Because society has changed so much since prohibition and the like we could ask whether we have come far enough in ... someone who does so very little for our society, to reap benefits that are typically afforded only to the elite, or allowing soft drugs such as marijuana to be used by those who are knowledgeable enough to make that choice. Taking the balloon out of the sales by decriminalizing might increase use or ....

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... old and back in junior high, one of my friends was "into" illegal drugs. This one friend (I will exclude her name and just call her friend) kept insisting that I try marijuana. She would say that it would make me feel good, relaxed, and forget about situations that were troubling me. But I realized that after the effect of the drug, the problem ... and her parents were away for the weekend. She invited me for a sleep over and my parents gave me permission to go for that one weekend. That is when I tried marijuana for the first time. It was an experiment I will never forget because as so...

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... part of the demand side of the drug equation. The percentage of our citizens that consume drugs is not the central problem. Quoted from the Internet source, www.legalization.com/marijuana . The worlds war on drugs is corrupt. The drug war corrupts itself. One corruption was alluded to earlier disproportionate penalties that destroy good people instead of bad drugs. When laws ... as heroin, but actually delivered a legal product such as quinine the penalty for selling heroin would apply. No physical evidence was even required for conviction. In Ohio a sale of fake marijuana netted the de...

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America's Choice There are many illegal substances in America. Harmful-substances which include, But are not limited to, marijuana, cocaine, herion, LSD, exstacy and speed. One of these drugs however, is in fact very legal and widely available. Speed can loosely be put into two categories legal and illegal. ... other illegal drugs seem to turn their users into criminals and unproductive members of society. Speed makes you work harder, get more accomplished and above all make money. Now if marijuana helped to make people perform better at work it isn't hard to imagine the harsh laws against ...

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... drug trade market is the second largest business in the world, bringing in over 500 billion dollars a year. The government has gone in and waged war against Columbian drug lords. Marijuana became the most popular drugs, due to the rise in usage, the federal government attempted to cut off the supply at the Mexican border. They have seized and destroyed billions ... of Prisons, total sentenced drug offenders went from 3,384 in 1970 to 55,624 in 1998 because of the stricter penalties enforced by the government. People have been arrested for marijuana alone, which doesn't include other ill...

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... p.1) Amsterdam is a city of 727,000 and total of 5,100 hard drug users. I must say those are good numbers. Would the Amsterdam model be a useful government response to hallucinogen and marijuana use in this country? Why or why not? Amsterdam's coffee shops and cafes are worldwide known for the tolerated exchange of hashish and ... marijuana. The United States drug policy stands by the zero tolerance rules. Our drug culture does not believe in any such thing as a use of an illegal drug, only abuse. So, ... ...

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... of politicians and bureaucrats who claim they want to end substance abuse. The Controlled Substance Act of 1970 significantly increased penalties for the possession and trafficking of such drugs as marijuana, LSD, and cocaine. Many other stricter bills were also passed since then that has had absolutely no impact on the drugs issue itself. The war on drugs is a great miss ... . Dennis also stated, "Suburban students who were DARE graduates scored higher than suburban students in Control group on all four major drug use measures." When asked about the availability of marijuana 88.5% of se...

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... every other kids, in a world where one wrong move can break apart ones bright future, I am surely pleased to have overcame my childhood without laying a finger on any illegal substances. Marijuana, a lethal enemy to the mind, is the most commonly used drug amongst illegal drug consumers according to the Narconon Southern California inc. But today, we are not only facing the ... schools students are still at the time of growing and hence would not be able to clearly identify the differences of neither what is good or bad. Researches says that marijuana experimentation amongst high school...

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... South America . . . Americans will get a hold of it. The world needs to get together and decide which "drugs" are worth prohibiting, it also needs to decide which uses are tolerable. Marijuana, for example, is not even considered a drug in many countries and appears to have many medical uses. Morphine and other opiates are used in hospitals around the world and saves ... ...

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... the drug had fallen into decline. However, its value had become a primary source of fiber and there is record of The United States declaredhemp cultivation dating back to Neolithic times. marijuana as an illegal drug in 1937. It has been a source of great controversy Another popular drug widely used in the United States is cocaine.ever since. Cocaine is extracted from ... ...

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... aspect of the legalization of drugs is the effect it would have on the nation's economy. Taxes on tobacco and alcohol attain money for the country. Taxing substances such as marijuana, heroin and cocaine would bring in much needed money to the government. This would lower the demand of money from income and property taxes. Also, drug legalization would reduce the ... ...

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... . and if drugs ever are legalized they will be dispensed as alcohol So it seems reasonable to conclude that at least four to six million people will become potheads if marijuana is legal, and that coke addicts will number somewhere between 8.5 million (if regular usage doubles and 70 percent become addicted) and 42 million.). The number of people abusing legalized drugs ... ...

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... illegal substances are carried over the border every day. In fact, as of September 2003 a 300 meter long tunnel was found that was being used to transport large amounts of marijuana, cocaine and illegal immigrants. I think something must be done to stop this drug trafficking along the U.S. border. There are thousands killed everyday by these drugs, so it could be said ... ...

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