... studies on toxicity and deadly levels of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuana, have concluded results similar to these, "Tetrahydrocannabinol is a very safe drug. Laboratory animals (rats, mice, dogs, monkeys) can tolerate doses of up to 1,000 mg/kg (milligrams per kilogram). This would be equivalent ... rate at which they crowding increases every year. One study took data from 1984 - 1999 and concluded, "the number of defendants charged with a drug offense in U.S. district courts increased about 3% annually, on average"(Scalia) and another study evidence showed, ...

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... that legalization supporters make is that prison overcrowding would decrease. The statement has been made for several years, by groups ranging from law enforcement to political, that our local, state, and federal prisons are running out of room because of the number of people incarcerated for drug-related offenses. Now, advocates for the legalization of marijuana have arrived at a solution: Make the ... level, the repercussions would certainly be felt at the state and local level as well. The advocates claim that the workload on local law enforcement will be lessened if marijuana were l...

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... men were given a license to steal and rape." The FBNDD is the organization that proceeded what we now call the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and was responsible for enforcing the new Federal drug laws against heroin, opium, and cocaine. Getting uniform drug laws passed in all States and the Federal legislature was one of Anslinger's biggest concerns as head of the FBNDD. ... Madness", the name comes from the title of a movie produced by a public health group. Today, it is indisputable that existing drug enforcement laws are vastly insufficient. Increased spending for the enforc...

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... . Controlled studies have revealed its therapeutic utility in the treatment of cancer chemotherapy side effects, glaucoma, and spasticity ailments. Federal regulations continue to make research with the drug very difficult, however, and many promising areas of therapeutic application have received little or no attention. These include: asthma, AIDS, epilepsy, analgesic action, tumor retardation, ... too. Dr. Donald Tashkin, UCLA Pulmonary Studies, stated, "Taking a hit of marijuana has been known to stop a full blown asthma attack."" On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administrati...

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... a dangerous and addictive mood-altering substance. Marijuana proponents are using a platform of medical agenda to legalize all marijuana use. Michael J. Meyers, a drug addiction physician at Kaiser Permanente in Carson, California, stated in an argument that this medical agenda of the proponents of marijuana would result in public ... working citizens as living on the fringes of society just because they smoke marijuana cigarettes. They simply prefer marijuana over alcohol as their recreational drug of choice. As long as marijuana is smoked responsibly, it has less harmful side effects th...

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... . Controlled studies have revealed its therapeutic utility in the treatment of cancer chemotherapy side effects, glaucoma, and spasticity ailments. Federal regulations continue to make research with the drug very difficult, however, and many promising areas of therapeutic application have received little or no attention. These include: asthma, AIDS, epilepsy, analgesic action, tumor retardation, ... too. Dr. Donald Tashkin, UCLA Pulmonary Studies, stated, "Taking a hit of marijuana has been known to stop a full blown asthma attack." On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administratio...

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... . Controlled studies have revealed its therapeutic utility in the treatment of cancer chemotherapy side effects, glaucoma, and spasticity ailments. Federal regulations continue to make research with the drug very difficult, however, and many promising areas of therapeutic application have received little or no attention. These include: asthma, AIDS, epilepsy, analgesic action, tumor retardation, ... too.Dr. Donald Tashkin, UCLA Pulmonary Studies, stated, "Taking a hit of marijuana has been known to stop a full blown asthma attack." On September 6, 1988, the Drug Enforcement Administration...

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... are regarded as patients rather than criminals. Accordingly, a comprehensive, differentiated set of preventive measures and care facilities has been established. The judicial authorities have always followed the principle that drug addicts should undergo medical treatment rather than serve a custodial sentence. Despite the sometimes disappointing results of treatment and/or the recidivism that occurs, this standpoint has been firmly adhered ... 100,000 in the U.S. Crime-related deaths as a percentage of population: 1.2 per 100,000 in the Netherlands (1994); 8.2 per 100,000 in the U.S. (1...

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... 1937, it was listed in the U.S. Pharmacopoeia as a tranquilizer (Richardson 42). Physicians of the time also used marijuana to treat headaches, insomnia, and menstrual cramps and the drug was available in most drug stores (Hermes 51). In today's society, patients and doctors argue that it relieves pain, nausea, loss of appetite, muscle spasms, and other symptoms of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma ... out of twenty migraine sufferers are not helped by normally prescribed medicines but are relieved with the use of marijuana. And because marijuana does not impair breathing, Grinspoon recommends the...

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... lead to a sharp increase in its use, but it might be worthwhile because it would reduce the amounts of money spent on government enforcement of current laws, if taxed, it could increase our country's revenue. The government could then focus on cracking down on the harder drugs ... not physically addictive, and in fact many users experience a reverse tolerance, this is where after long-term use smaller amounts of the drug eventually produce the same high.12 Some psychological dependence is possible. Studies have found that the psychological dependency is less than sugar or chocolate ... ...

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... of marijuana intoxication. The amount of THC (which is also the psychoactive ingredient in hashish) determines the potency and, therefore, the effects of marijuana.1 In 2000, state and local law enforcement arrested 734,498 people for marijuana violations. This is an increase of 800 percent since 1980, and is the highest ever recorded by the FBI. As has been the case ... unavailable in Marinol, and patients only have access to their therapeutic properties by using cannabis.3 Patients prescribed Marinol frequently complain of its high psychoactivity. This is because patients consume the ...

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... medical uses of marijuana are analgesic, anticonvulsant, antidepressant, anathematic, appetite enhancer, bronchodilator, preanesthetic agent, to reduce interlobular pressure in glaucoma, sedative-hypnotic and to treat alcohol and drug dependency.) but the only use that has been generally accepted is to prevent nausea and vomiting following chemotherapy for cancer. Both dronabinol (Marinol), the principal psychoactive substances in marijuana, ... marijuana began to seem "especially by the young "as a fairly harmless substance whose bad effects had been greatly exaggerated. But that thinki...

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... other criminal behaviors (Rosenthal and Kubby 27). A perfect example of this can be seen in the 2001 movie "Blow", which stars Johnny Depp who plays a drug dealer (marijuana) who was caught and sentence to prison where he learns to traffic cocaine. "I came here (jail) with a bachelor in marijuana, and left ... marijuana laws. Today, "according to the United States Department of Justice, Federal, State, and local government currently spends over $20 billion per year on drug enforcement (Cussen and Block, par.25). If that money was only used for education, there would be more schools and...

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