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Marijuana and Ethics

            Ethics is defined as the system of human mental activities that allows us to assign a degree of "goodness" or "badness" to a situation, action, or idea based on the societal perceptions of the time. Most of our ethical views are based on whether something hurts something that is alive or more importantly whether it hurts another human being. So where does the medicinal use of marijuana fall in the question of ethics? Its hard to say, marijuana is a very complicated drug containing more than 420 different chemical, 61 (called cannabinoids) are unique to marijuana, and up until recently many of these so called "facts" that were known about this drug were really just opinions of people trying to sway society towards the direction of there view on whether marijuana should be accepted or not. But now there is more and more research being done on this mystery drug and we are beginning to see the real facts, some of which are good and some are bad. .
             Marijuana could be considered, and is by many, more of a beneficial herb than a harmful drug. Just like any other drug (caffeine or pain relievers for example), marijuana is not harmful if used in moderation, and many doctors will agree on this point. Marijuana is safer, less addictive, and has many more benefits than some legal drugs used in today's medicine, such as morphine or cocaine. According to Marijuana As Medicine marijuana is one of the safest therapeutical drugs known and could be used to replace as much as thirty percent of all prescription drugs on the market today.
             Marijuana posses many medical benefits which could be used by wide variety of patients. In fact Physician's Association for AID's Care and National Lymphoma Foundation, among others, all support the movement for legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes to treat the terminally ill. For people with glaucoma, when marijuana is smoked it has been shown to reduce the intraocular pressure that causes damage to the optic nerve.


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Daily across the world millions of people are smoking marijuana. ... Smoking marijuana is not a safe or effective medicine. ... It is hard to find out whether alone marijuana causes cancer because many people who smoke marijuana also smoke cigarettes and use other drugs. ... When these people who our children are taught to look up to and respect are saying it is ok to legalize drugs, this is putting bad ethics in our youth's minds. ... If these children are brought up believing that the use of marijuana is acceptable think of the ethics that their kids will be brought up believing. ...

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2. Overview of Legalizing Marijuana

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3. The Ethics Of The Drug War

The Office of Government Ethics, also known as the OGE is a small agency within the executive branch of our federal government. It was established by the Ethics in Government Act of 1978. Originally part of the Office of Personnel Management, the OGE became a separate agency on October 1, 1989 as part of the Office of Government Ethics Reauthorization Act of 1988. The Office of Government Ethics exercises leadership in the executive branch to prevent conflicts of interest on the part of Government employees, and to resolve these conflicts of interest that do occur. ... Increased use of mari...

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4. Ethics and College Football

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5. Drug Policy Paper

The drug market diminishes the standard morals and ethics of a society with the beneficiaries being crime syndicates and drug dealers. ... The Boggs Act intensively increased the penalties for marijuana use. ... Numerous Vietnam veterans returned with heroin and marijuana habits. ... In 1977, President Carter shared his idea for the decriminalization of marijuana. ... Marijuana was connected cocaine as a gateway drug, thus the federal government strayed from marijuana decriminalization. ...

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6. Cannibis and Cognitive thought process

These subjects were recruited from recovery centers, confidentiality and consent were considered and accommodated in accord with ethics rules of the United States. A control group of 33 people was formed to isolate the effects of marijuana from other confounding variables. ... Long-term marijuana users are more likely to suffer memory loss and slowdown in mental processes. ... Also, any relation between age and marijuana use and cognitive process slowdown should also be investigated. Finally, less frequent use of marijuana (once a month or less) should also be put under study to determine ...

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7. Ethics of drug use

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8. Hippies

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9. Developmental Stages of Life

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