November 2011 Marijuana: Cause and Effect Today in America‚ millions of American citizens are both confused and outraged by the fact that there are still laws that are preventing people from using one of the most popular and controversial‚ illegal substances in the world: marijuana. According to recent polls‚ fifty percent of Americans want marijuana to be completely legal and decriminalized (Blodget)‚ and a whopping eighty percent of Americans want it to be at least legalized for medical use (RangelMD)
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Medical marijuana is the snake oil of the 21st century. Snake oil‚ popular in the 18th century for the relief of pain and disease‚ was proven to have no real value or any remedy. Much like snake oil‚ medical marijuana has no value as medicine. Marijuana is a Schedule 1 narcotic and is among the list of some of the most potent drugs that can be taken. The DEA‚ Drug Enforcement Agency‚ considers it lacking medical merit and having a high potential for abuse as it can be addictive and people can become
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Most marijuana‚ also called medical cannabis‚ that’s sold legally as medicine has the same ingredients as the kind that people use for pleasure. But some medical marijuana is specially grown to have less of the harmful and dangerous chemicals. But even though it can have less chemicals‚ it still comes with many consequences‚ especially if the user takes more than the prescribed amount. Plus only some medical marijuana is grown to have less of these chemicals. Medical marijuana is harmful to the
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Medical Marijuana Laws and their Effects Keith Reese COM/156 7/23/2014 Jennifer Preus Medical Marijuana Laws and their Effects In 1936‚ George Herliman produced the propaganda film “Tell Your Children”‚ later titled “Reefer Madness”(“IMBD”‚ 1990-2014). This film‚ financed by a church group to display the exaggerated consequences of marijuana usage‚ was intended to inspire fear in parents and children alike. Though marijuana legalization has become a front burner topic‚ one would
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Medical marijuana should be legalized because it can relieve pain‚ as in‚ nausea‚ vomiting‚ and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis‚ cancer and AIDS‚ it is less toxic than most drugs that physicians prescribe to patients every day. The Pain Management of America said “There are few things more frightening in life than receiving a cancer diagnosis. Fortunately for cancer patients‚ medical marijuana may be an effective cancer treatment and an alternative to many drugs currently
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Medical Marijuana 1 Medical Marijuana COM/156 UNIVERSITY COMPOSITION AND COMMUNICATION II October 26‚ 2013 Christy Spindler Medical Marijuana 2 Many people have a very slanted and negative view of marijuana‚ and it’s medical uses. There is so many advantages as well as disadvantages to using medical marijuana‚ over traditional medications. The use of medical marijuana goes back farther in to United States history than many believe.
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Beavan Professor Hoffman English 103 10 November 2013 The Great Debate over Medical Marijuana Over many years and especially in recent times people have been debating whether or not marijuana should be legalized for medical use. Those who support legalization claim that marijuana has legitimate medical benefits. Many argue that marijuana is a better alternative than pills because it is less addictive and no known marijuana overdoses have been reported‚ as opposed to the numerous that are reported
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Medical Marijuana A debatable topic in the United States has been the talk of making Marijuana legal for medicinal purposes. Included in the legalization of marijuana contains the right to sell‚ grow‚ use or buy marijuana. The origin of marijuana‚ cannabus satiba‚ came from Eastern Europe‚ India and Iran. Marijuana is the dried blossom of cannabis sativa and cannabis indica plants‚ leafy annual plants with parts that are used for as herbs‚ animal food‚ medicine and as
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Pot. Dope. Cannibis. Grass. Marijuana. For years there has been a negative stigma attached to this plant‚ but that’s exactly what it is‚ a plant‚ something that grows in the ground‚ and it is not inherantly evil like some people believe. It is the use or misuse of it that is good or bad‚ not the plant itself. I think that it is time we look past all that we have been told about the dangers of marijuana and see that it actually has legitimate medical uses. And I believe that if it was something developed
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Marijuana Legalization Marijuana should be legalized and taxed by the government because it has a low risk of abuse‚ and it can be used for many medical reasons. Prescription drugs kill about 100‚000 people in the world each year. Off the top of your head‚ do you know how many deaths are caused by using marijuana‚ either medically or recreationally? According to statistics‚ marijuana has not yet been recorded to be a cause of any death‚ ever. Not only are marijuana’s
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