More recently, Congress passed amendments in 1998 to the Higher Education Act which denies federal financial aid to any student with any drug conviction, even for a single marijuana cigarette.5 R. ... While the scientific community has yet to achieve full consensus on this matter, the majority of epidemiological and animal data demonstrate that the reinforcing properties of marijuana in humans is low in comparison to other drugs of abuse, including alcohol and nicotine. ... Other compounds such as cannabidiol (CBD), an anti-convulsant, and cannabichromine (CBC), an anti-inflammatory, are unav...

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 Imagine a drug that is less addictive than nicotine, safer to use than alcohol, and can even help in relieving the pain in cancer, glaucoma, and AIDS patients. Now, imagine that same drug being banned from the United States. Yes, this drug is marijuana, Mary Jane, reefer, pot, green, an...

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The Legalization of Marijuana for All Purposes Drugs are major problem in our society today. Although the Canadian government has taken measures against drugs, in stiffening laws concerning the cultivation and trafficking of drugs and various media awareness programs, the problem continues to get worse. The government is exercising many options to control the problem or even solve the problem. It seems as if the "war on drugs" is a futile war or at least next to impossible to win. The government should consider using different options than ones they have used in the past. ...

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A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The "war on drugs" was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel that this media frenzy was caused, in large part, by the government of the United States of America. Others feel- that this heightened media coverage is a direct result of the consequences of drugs and drug abuse. For whatever reasons that the media was there, the participants in this pro and con ...

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For many years, the United States government has prohibited drugs such as marijuana from sale in the marketplace. With prohibition, marijuana use has decreased only minimally. Because of prohibition, the media has publicized only the bad aspects of marijuana use. What many people do not realize are ...

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