There has been a phenomena in the Hmong community that is similar to the Gold Rush in 1849 in California, the Hmong has been featured in the news lately that they moved to California all the sudden to grow Marijuana. Personal story, whenever I went home for break or a visit, I would hear my parents talk about their coworkers or distant relatives that migrated to California to grow Cannabis or to work in the someone else’s Cannabis farm. Recently, there has been Hmong people appearing on the news and social media such as Facebook, therefore, I would like to focus my topic of Cannabis on the Hmong community, Cannabis, and the media.…
In “Why I Changed My Mind on Weed” written by Sanjay Gupta, she talks about how medical marijuana is a solution for their problems, marijuana is hard to research and there is a small percentage of people that are dependent on it. Medical marijuana ds the solution for their problems. For example, “a girl used to have 300 seizures a week, but then with medical marijuana it went down to 2-3 a month” (Gupta 38). Marijuana is hard to research because “you need weed and weed is illegal”(Gupta 39). Second of all, “ you need approval, they need the approval of the National Institute on Drug Abuse which studies drug abuse not the benefits” (Gupta 39).…
The Gullah culture started with the transportation of African slaves to the Sea Islands of South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The Sea Islands served as an excellent location for the Gullah culture because of its separation from the mainland. The African slaves, who came from different regions in African, brought with them their language, culture and traditions. Collectively these traditions and languages have merged into one to form Gullah. The Gullah culture has survived over the years by Gullah elders passing down the language and traditions to their children. However, over the past fifty years the Gullah culture has started to die. Three significant factors…
The Aryan Brotherhood, also know widely as The Brand, Alice Baker, AB, or One-Two, is the Nation’s oldest major white supremacist gang and national crime syndicate. The Aryan Brotherhood gang was founded in 1964 by Irish bikers as a form of protection for white inmates in newly desegregated prisons. The founding location of this gang was at the San Quentin State Prison in California. The idea of the AB was initially to have a safety line so to speak when prisons were desegregated. They band together to make sure no one from another raced messed with them. Today, things have changed. They are now operating in and out of…
The North had great advantages in manpower, material, and organization. It had more than twice the population of the South, and many more factories to produce war supplies. The U.S. government had been functioning well for many decades, and the national level had sufficient powers under the Constitution to wage war effectively.…
There is a huge number of African Americans who are employed in common labor, in which most of them are now engaged, sure that there is no desire for the advancement of Negroes in their employ because they have difficulty with people of their own race. In other words, they have not yet been able to adjust or accept taking orders from another person of their own race.…
due to cultural and ethnic beliefs in the African-American culture average products for each group are:…
All throughout society, the opinions of legalizing marijuana conflict with one another, placing people in the position to be on one side of the argument or the other. People either want to see the government legalizing it to the community or are totally against the subject; there is not really any ground in-between the matter. When I think of this topic I see it from two different perspectives, a symbolic interactionists point of view and Functionalism. To the symbolic interactionist’s perspective, people attach meaning to symbols and than they act according to their own interpretations of the meaning. In the case of legalizing marijuana half of people see the image of a cannabis leaf and they automatically jump to the conclusion that the location of this symbol represents something terrible and illegal, avoiding it so that they are not integrated with its stereotypes. On the other hand the other half of people interpret the symbol of a cannabis leaf as a refuge for others in need of medical assistance, providing a helpful treatment the relives multiple symptoms. They see a cure the will prevent pain instead of an illegal drug for teens. Another symbol that is often associated with marijuana is a pipe. There are glass, clay, and even wood pipes all of which are affiliated with the use of the “ganja.” The people who visualize a cannabis leaf as being a symbol of delinquent’s also see pipes as a negative and choose not to be associated with the stereotypical marijuana instrument for fear that others may judge. Others in everyday society don’t think anything of a pipe; they accept that there are many purposes of this instrument and most of the time it is used only for smoking tobacco. This fraction of people acknowledge that there is more that just one function of a pipe and to compare one to a million shows a lack of understanding among society and how one minded many can be.…
Heritage makes up a large portion of our History. Combine that heritage with race and you have a foundation for establishing different beginnings of races that can trace their early origins back to the beginning of the United States. A giant melting pot as it has been described due to all of the immigration that occurred in the early nineteenth century. African Americans have established an enormous role in the beginnings and the history of the America. Their continuous fight for equality and rights as American people have spanned many years. The actions against African Americans immediately following the conclusion of the civil…
When I came to the United States in 2010, I was teased for being African not by white students but by black Americans; they were always trying to play with my intelligence. Many African Americans are ignorant about African immigrants; they think we want to kill them so that we can eat them. I remember back in high school, a black student once asked me if I had seen a Lion or a Tiger. I told her, “Yes, we all lived together in our tree house.” In Africa, we admire the American struggle for civil rights, but when some of us came to America and discovered that black is not so beautiful, we insist on maintaining a separate identity. African immigrants and African Americans have shared complexion, but their cultures are diverse because of food tradition,…
Cannabis, better know as Marijuana, has been around since 2900 B.C. A Chinese Emperor Fu His, referenced the plant as being, “a popular medicine that possessed both yin and yang.”(ProCon.org) In America, the use of Marijuana and the concept of it has been kicked around and jumbled for hundreds of years. It has been generalized and put in a box. Beginning with George Washington, he grew Marijuana on his private plantation for thirty years. In the early 1900’s states began outlawing the herb, starting with Massachusetts in 1911. Ironically, the first arrest ever made for possession of Marijuana was in Colorado. Today, Colorado along with Washington has legalized the recreational use of Cannabis. In 1970, Marijuana was labeled as a schedule one drug that had “no accepted medical use.” In 2013, that myth has been thoroughly shot down as propaganda as we can see by the uprising in Medicinal Marijuana Dispensaries across the country. However, some people still believe the plant is a harmful and a dangerous drug. It is one of the oldest, and most effective natural medicines in human existence. Marijuana does not affect everybody the same way.…
Marijuana can be used as a medicine and also as a recreational drug which are the positive aspects of it. Most of the people use it as it is good for them because they have made an informed decision. Mainly, to those natives American who are suffering from serious ailments. It even provides relief from various diseases such as nausea, spasticity, pain and other diseases that aren’t treated successfully with conventional medication.…
Novak, William. (1980). High Culture: Marijuana in the Lives of Americans. University of Illinois at Chicago. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.…
The Baha’i faith is very in tune with the modern word because it internal structure is different. Baha’i institutions are democratically elected councils or appointed individuals. Their role is to encourage action, foster individual initiative, and promote learning within the Baha’i community as a whole. They invigorate individual and collective efforts to contribute to the well being of society. In the Baha’i elections, electioneering, campaigning, nominations, and parties are prohibited(Baha’i library).Some current social structure are neglecting the spiritual reality. Consequently, social institutions such as government, economy, and educational system are erected on the foundations of competition, domination, and greed, and serve to perpetuate such.…
Japan’s history with relation to marijuana is different than in the United States. Prior to occupation by US forces, nearly 200,000 farm households cultivated hemp (Fulford 2003). It was not until the US imposed anti-narcotic laws that Japan faced issues of legal/illegal debate. During WWII, Japanese Imperial Army soldiers were allowed to smoke marijuana to ease the stress of battle. The smoke of the marijuana plant also held spiritual values in some religious ceremonies. In 2003, Yasunao Nakayama was approved to cultivate marijuana for experimental and commercial purposes. In fact, at the time of the article, his vehicle was powered by hemp oil. While the country’s roots include the acceptable…