... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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