Legal Marijuana: Helpful or Harmful? James Nix Soc:102 Amber Anderson May 25‚ 2013 Legal Marijuana: Helpful or Harmful? The year is 2013 and the reality of legalized marijuana in the United States seems to be getting closer with each year. A highly controversial topic because marijuana’s primary use throughout history has been for abusive purposes more than anything else. Marijuana has medicinal uses and the stalks of the plants can be used for making paper or even fibers for ropes or canvases
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Topic: The Effects of legalizing Ganja Narrowed Focus: The Positive Effects of Legalizing Ganja on the economy of a named country. Thesis: Legalization of Ganja would result in benefits to the economy through reduced law enforcement costs‚ spin-off industries and new tax revenue in the United States. Topic Sentence Outline 1. Reduced law enforcement costs Legalization of Ganja would result in a boost in the economy through reduced law enforcement costs. 2. Spin-off industries
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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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LEGALIZING PROSTITUTION Sexual desire is one of the inevitable desires of human in every society‚ especially in monogamous society where prostitution is always needed. A large number of people have a negative‚ unwelcoming look toward sex work which lead to the prostitution criminalising approval. Recently‚ people have seen the need of decriminalizing prostitution and there are piles of argument around this. Legalizing prostitution should be done instantly because of it’s benefits over aspects such
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Prostitution manages to utilize all three‚ thus confirming its dangerous nature. Human trafficking is done to force human beings into prostitution to make money; therefore legalizing prostitution will only further encourage human trafficking. Richard Poulin‚(Professor at the University of Montreal)‚ found that in countries where prostitution is legal; the majority of the prostitutes are foreigners with no papers‚ making them
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Reasons For Legalizing Prostitution 1. Victimless Crime: Prostitution is considered a victimless crime as long as the people involved are consenting adults and no one is hurt. Prostitution does not imply there is always a victim. 2. Free Choice: Consenting adults should have freedom of choice as they see fit‚ as long it is does not restrict the freedoms of others. 3. Free Sex is Legal: Having sex without a fee is legal‚ therefore charging for something that is not illegal should not
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Marijuana laws waste billions of taxpayer dollars to lock up non-violent americans. [1 in 3 adult americans have tried marijuana] and [federal marijuana laws can arrest or imprison everyone one of them just for simple possession.] [These laws are unfair and abuse our criminal justice system.] [Prosecuting and jailing these Americans wastes valuable resources better spent keeping violent criminals off our streets.] As it is‚ [hundreds of thousands of citizens have already been imprisoned - many of
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and Ethical Issues of Medical Marijuana The debate over legalizing the use of marijuana is rooted in real world concerns such as crime‚ violence and public health. It is also a problem rooted in conflicting values. Thus‚ while the courts and law enforcement authorities continue to crack down on marijuana use‚ they also have to contend with a growing public acceptance of marijuana use. This paper examines both sides of the debate to legalize marijuana‚ focusing on the issue of legalizing marijuana
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2013 Ann O’Phelan LA 280 Perspective Journalism Marijuana? What’s the Big Deal About? The big debate in California is wether the state should legalize marijuana‚ and then tax it to bring in revenues to help California climb out of the mountain of a debt it got in. Although Marijuana is deemed as a gateway drug that can lead into harder drugs‚ legalizing Marijuana will help In the past twelve months‚ only two states have legalize marijuana for recreational use‚ and California was not one of
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Strayer University | The legalization of marijuana | English 215 | Bateney Avril Cassandra Dettman7/25/2011 | Fifty years from now‚ the United States (U.S.) population started to know some new drugs like marijuana‚ amphetamines‚ and psychedelics. So the drug started to explode and the U.S. Government needs to find an effective way to solve the problems. In 1973‚ the U.S. created the Drug Enforcement
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