As of Nov. 20‚ 2013‚ gay marriage has been legalized in 16 US states (CA‚ CT‚ DE‚ HI‚ IA‚ IL‚ MA‚ MD‚ ME‚ MN‚ NH‚ NJ‚ NY‚ RI‚ VT‚ and WA) and the District of Columbia. 33 states have gay marriage bans through either laws or constitutional amendments or both. Proponents argue that same-sex couples should have access to the same marriage benefits and public acknowledgment enjoyed by heterosexual couples and that prohibiting gay marriage is unconstitutional discrimination. Opponents argue that
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Drug Legalization Strong drug enforcement in the United States is correlated with the reduction in crime ‚ drug use‚ and drug addiction growth rates. The impact on tougher drug sanctions has been overshadowed by a myth that U.S. drug enforcement has become too lenient. This myth has been promoted by the multi-million dollar pro-drug legalization lobby‚ civil libertarians‚ and misguided academic researchers to the public with limited review and challenge. Attacks on drug enforcement
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Adedeji Taylor 10/16/2014 Legalization of marijuana. Growing Up‚ everyone said that‚ “Drugs are bad for you”‚ time and time again. Now as a kid you don’t really understand the reasoning behind it‚ they listen to your authority figures regardless. This people are being told this their entire life‚ when they get older they realized that people would still use drugs even though it’s illegal. Why would someone go against the law and jeopardize his life just to use drugs‚ the drug that I am talking
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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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Legalization Ariel Bryant Mr. Elsey ENC 1101 3/12/2013 Relieving pain‚ slowing the onset of Alzheimer’s disease‚ and fighting depression are some of the benefits marijuana can offer patients‚ some studies claim. Now‚ a group of pot activists is envisioning a new benefit: legal profits. 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 hemp for rope-making. "The flowers... contain
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Comp1 Professor Smith Legalization of Marijuana Have you ever wondered why marijuana was illegal? Keeping marijuana illegal costs tax payers a bunch of money‚ and is not even an effective way to solve the problem of marijuana use. People have the right to choose for themselves if they want to use marijuana or not. The use of marijuana does not affect anyone but the person using it‚ so why not let them use marijuana if they choose to. According to the Marijuana Legalization Organization‚ the criminalization
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The Legalization of Marijuana Many years ago the average person did not think of marijuana as a harmful drug‚ but as a useful substance. The fiber of hemp is used for medicine‚ paper‚ fuel‚ and food. George Washington‚ the first President of the Unites States of America‚ even encouraged people to sow the Indian hemp seed everywhere. Marijuana was not prohibited in the United States until 1937 when Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. Today‚ many American citizens want this
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number of heroin addicts (“Against the Legalization of Drugs Pg.150”). This number staying the same indicates that the system we have now is working in the sense of not raising the addiction number. In Harlem many young blacks were on heroin in 1970 to 1971 but the rate decreased from eight percent to three percent in 1975 to 1976. When asked why they stopped using heroin more than half of them mentioned “trouble with the law” or “high cost” (“Against the Legalization of Drugs”). With hard drugs being
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MARIJUANA LEGALIZATION Recently‚ the issue of whether to legalize marijuana has arisen due to its benefits and the ineffectiveness of the current prohibition on it being recognized. There has been vehement argument about this idea weighing its advantages and disadvantages‚ and it has no sign of coming to an end soon because it is hard to decide whether it is worthy of a risk. It is undeniable that marijuana legalization will bring us a lot of benefits‚ which Joe Klein mentioned in his article “Why
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marijuana that conclude two sides . One side determines the numerous of health benefits that come with the legalization and consumption of marijuana and how alcohol and tobacco is far more damaging . Also‚ legalization of marijuana would boost the poor economy of the U . S . On the other hand one side reveals the use and legalization of marijuana would increase marijuana use within adolescents that would lead to further brain developmental
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