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- 81: Marijuana: The Legalization
- Marijuana: The Legalization Their Side: After the sustaining vote in November of 1996 and coming into effect the beginning of this year, marijuana is now legal to medical patients in California and Arizona. Proposition 215 reads as follows: The people of the State of California hereby find and declare that the purposes of the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 are as follows: (A) To ensure that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the ...
- 82: Legalization of Marijuana
- Legalization of Marijuana One debate that keeps coming up time and again is the topic of the legalization of marijuana. Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug. Nearly one in three teenagers have at least tried marijuana by the time they graduate high school. It is also gets the most publicity for its legalization. ...
- 83: Why Drugs Should Be Legalized!!!!
- ... alcohol abuse, 400,000 from cigarette- related illnesses and less than 3,000 from illegal drugs. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop testified that tobacco is just as addictive as heroin and less so than marijuana. Illegal drugs are by no means good or safe, but they cause far less medical damage than either alcohol and nicotine-legal intoxicants. Over 40 million Americans now use drugs occasionally, but most do so ... increased and penalties for consumption were drastically reduced. According to Richard J. Bonnie, there was no correlation between the laxative laws and increased use. The only drug that saw any kind of increased use was marijuana, a basically harmless drug. One must also consider the economic possibilities that accompany the decriminalization of drugs. The nation's GNP (Gross National Product) only counts legal transactions. If drugs were legalized, a significant effect ... still exist. Decriminalizing drugs is just a form of damage control that will hopefully lessen the negative externalities on society. The aforementioned arguments, however, cannot even be applied to the case for the decriminalization of marijuana and hemp products. Marijuana does nor cause crime or aggressive behavior. In fact, the use of marijuana makes an individual more passive and less likely to engage in any form of violent behavior. Marijuana ...
- 84: Marijuana
- Marijuana The purpose of my paper is to prove that marijuana effects teens and their mind. Marijuana is a tobacco-like substance produced by drying the leaves, stems, flower tops of the Cannabis sativa (Indian Hemp) plant (Fact Sheet, 1). It is smoked or eaten to get hallucinated and receive pleasure. ...
- 85: Legalization of Drugs
- ... alcohol abuse, 400,000 from cigarette- related illnesses and less than 3,000 from illegal drugs. Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop testified that tobacco is just as addictive as heroin and less so than marijuana. Illegal drugs are by no means good or safe, but they cause far less medical damage than either alcohol and nicotine-legal intoxicants. Over 40 million Americans now use drugs occasionally, but most do so ... increased and penalties for consumption were drastically reduced. According to Richard J. Bonnie, there was no correlation between the laxative laws and increased use. The only drug that saw any kind of increased use was marijuana, a basically harmless drug. One must also consider the economic possibilities that accompany the decriminalization of drugs. The nation's GNP (Gross National Product) only counts legal transactions. If drugs were legalized, a significant effect ... still exist. Decriminalizing drugs is just a form of damage control that will hopefully lessen the negative externalities on society. The aforementioned arguments, however, cannot even be applied to the case for the decriminalization of marijuana and hemp products. Marijuana does nor cause crime or aggressive behavior. In fact, the use of marijuana makes an individual more passive and less likely to engage in any form of violent behavior. Marijuana ...
- 86: The Physical and Psychological Effects of Marijuana
- The Physical and Psychological Effects of Marijuana Introduction Marijuana has been used as a drug since the beginning of time, yet there are still many mysteries about its health effects on humans. Marijuana, or cannabis sativa, is a preparation of the crushed flowers and buds of female hemp plant. The existence of the plant has been reported as early as 1500-1200 BC. in China, and cannabis ...
- 87: For Information on the Medical Uses of Marijuana
- For Information on the Medical Uses of Marijuana In reaction to medical cannabis access referendums on the ballots in Arizona and California, former presidents Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, and George Bush signed a letter stating that they ``categorically oppose'' access to cannabis for ... because the scientific literature overwhelmingly confirms that cannabis is both an effective and safe medicine. The Cannabis Safety Profile The journal PHARMACOLOGICAL REVIEWS [2] reports that decades of research prove that, "Compared with legal drugs...marijuana does not pose greater risks." Yet based upon mortality statistics, we can safely conclude that cannabis is one of the safest medical drugs known, for, while prescription drugs, defined as safe by the FDA, kill ... year, cannabis kills 0 per year [3]. When we know the facts we can understand why in 1988, after extensive review of the scientific literature, the DEA's own administrative judge Frances Young concluded that ``Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances know to man.'' [4] Opponents of legal cannabis access would have us believe that there is not enough research available to determine its safety. Nothing could ...
- 88: If Marijuana Were To Be Legal
- If Marijuana Were To Be Legal Drugs are a major influential force in our country today. The problem has gotten so out of hand that many options are being considered to control it or even solve it ... accomplishing a lot but this is not true. Different options need to be considered. Legalization is an option that hasn't gotten a chance but should be given one. Although many people feel that legalizing marijuana would increase the amount of use, marijuana should be legalized because it will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement and it will increase our country's revenue. There are also many benefits that can be uncovered to help ...
- 89: Legalization of Marijuana
- Legalization of Marijuana What is marijuana? According to Harvard Medical Professor Lester Grinspoon, it is a "miracle drug", one that prevents blindness, acts as an appetite stimulant for AIDS patients, and prevents muscle spasms in epileptics. When speaking of the same ... crimes and insanity. How can two such highly respected experts have such night and day outlooks on the same thing? While Anslinger presided as America's leading anti-drug official his McCarthyish hunt down of Marijuana users led to the downfall of many well respected Americans. During the 1900's the United Stated has committed itself to and unprecedented war on marijuana that is costly, unjustified and impossible to win. ...
- 90: Marijuana And Its Effects On Humans
- The Health Effects of Marijuana on Humans Tim Murphy Introduction Marijuana has been used as a drug since the beginning of time, yet there are still many mysteries about its health effects on humans. Marijuana, or cannabis sativa, is a preparation of the crushed flowers and buds of female hemp plant. The existence of the plant has been reported as early as 1500-1200 BC. in China, and cannabis ...
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