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    according to the law on marijuana? It’s true. In 2008 Time Magazine reported that researchers had found more than 42% of people surveyed in the United States had tried marijuana at least once (Lynch‚ 2008). So if marijuana use is so common in the United States‚ why should it not be legalized? In this paper I will discuss both the supporting and opposing positions on the legalization of marijuana. I will also explore the moral and ethical views for legalizing marijuana. Utilitarianism is the

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    I have always been against the use of all illegal drugs including marijuana‚ but while researching this topic‚ I have learned a lot about some of the positives of legalizing marijuana use. Considering it is classified as an illegal controlled substance‚ I have always been under the assumption that marijuana was bad for people‚ no matter what my friends may have said about how good it was. I was peer pressured into trying it when I was fourteen. I knew right away that it was not for me. It made

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    The Modern Prohibition: Legalizing Marijuana The fight over legalizing marijuana has been going on for many years. Many people are not aware of the huge impact legalizing marijuana would have. It has many medicinal uses‚ it is less harmful than alcohol and other legal drugs‚ and keeping it illegal is very expensive‚ and it. Prohibition did not work in the 1920’s‚ and it is surely not working again. One reason why marijuana should be legalized is‚ it would save our government a huge amount of money

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    Marijuana otherwise known as cannabis should be removed from the law system and adjusted in a behavior similar to alcohol and tobacco‚ marijuana has a lot of positive qualities. The life dependency risk for alcohol is fifteen percent and Marijuana’s life dependency risk is nine percent. Alcohol affects a lot more people than marijuana. When people abuse alcohol it is way worse than getting high on marijuana because when people get drunk they want to do crazy idiotic things. There are currently no

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    Illegalization of marijuana The biggest responsibility of the government is to protect citizens from harmful substances and to provide a safe country to live in. Such as protect them from crimes‚ poisonous food and contaminating water. Similarly‚ the ban of marijuana protects citizens from a lot of problems whether health problems or social problems (crimes). Actually marijuana have social and health effects; the social effects of marijuana are crimes because this drug alters the human brain so

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    Do the overall benefits of Marijuana Justify its legality? When we were just little kids‚ our parents and teachers told us that drugs were the devil and that we should never even consider taking them. Marijuana was always on that list of “bad” drugs ‚ while we were told that pharmaceutical drugs can help us if we were sick. Marijuana is classified as a schedule 1 substance in the same category as deadly drugs like heroin and MDMA‚ while addictive pain-killers ‚ anxiety medications (which are far

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    PHI-105 11/20/2012 Beverly Santelli The Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana has been criminalized for enough generations to make it a fear or pride issue in the minds of the lawmakers and the voting public. The Federal government may have just kept it a schedule one drug because it has been one for so long‚ but‚ to legalize it at the federal level instead of various states legalizing it could create new wealth and give our country back its financial independence. However this will only really

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    Legalizing Marijuana The argument of whether to legalize marijuana or not is parallel to the age-old battle of Creationism vs. Evolution‚ everyone has his or her own opinion. Legalizing marijuana is social debate whose outcome could not possibly make everyone happy. This debate is filled with both pros and cons‚ and some would argue that both sides have equally convincing arguments. There are several substantial reasons why marijuana should be legalized. A few reasons why it should be legal are

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    Medicinal Marijuana: The Debate Marijuana or Cannabis sativa is a natural grown plant in which the leaves‚ stems and flowers contain delta-9-tetrahydro-cannibinal (THC). When smoked‚ THC gives the user a type of euphoria or “high” feeling. However‚ many medical professionals and patients claim that this drug also gives users medical benefits for various ailments; and they are fighting to have this drug legalized for this reason. According to the National Academy of Sciences

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    Economic Effects of Marijuana Legalization Nationally: Beneficial or Detrimental? Denzel J. Frazier ABSTRACT Economic Effects of Marijuana Legalization Nationally: Beneficial or Detrimental? If I told you that the antidote for the astonishing United States federal debt estimated to trickle right under twenty trillion dollars. Conspiracy? No such. This substance has crept from the grasp of hippie hopefuls as well as the hip hop underworld

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