Michael Walker WR 121 8/8/10 Essay #4 Rough Smoke 101 Marijuana is by far the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States and in most other countries as well. More than 100 million Americans have tried marijuana‚ and more than twenty million have smoked it in the last year‚ but does marijuana really affect people and their thinking process‚ and should pot be legal in the United States. (Armentano Paragraph 3) I believe that marijuana should be legal because people should live
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Opening Statement - Put criminals out of business instead of in jail. Phillip Morris a positive advocate in society goes after the green. We can finally be seen as a company that is an asset to society instead of the big bad tobacco wolf. We are losing profits on tobacco products. We are the only tobacco company that is international and have the worse results on the S & P 500. Every time you turn on the television there is an anti-tobacco advertisement. The Government resorts to taxing our
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“cannabis.” Cannabis comes from the cannabis sativa plant. This plant is mainly grown in China‚ Africa‚ and some parts of the Caribbean and South America. In China the plant’s original usage was the strong hemp fiber that came from it‚ it was good for making fishing nets‚ and clothes‚ you can still find hemp fiber being used in ropes. Also many ancient civilizations soon discovered the hallucinogenic power the plant had when inhaled into the body‚ many Chinese‚ even the Indians began to smoke cannabis because
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What is exactly marijuana? According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (2014)‚ marijuana‚ which also called weed‚ is a dry‚ shredded green and brown mix of leaves‚ flowers‚ stems‚ and seeds form the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. In addition‚ the main chemical in marijuana is produced by leaves and buds primarily of the female cannabis plant‚ the plant is also contains more than 500 other chemicals‚ including over 100 compounds that are chemically related
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People have been arguing that “weed is a gateway drug” and that it turns people into “lazy hippies” since the early 1930s. In fact‚ prior to this time period hemp‚ and marijuana‚ was widely used as well as grown for numerous sectors of the economy along with recreational consumption. The Marijuana Tax Act was passed by Congress in 1937 (Marijuana Timeline); effectively criminalizing all uses of the plant. Since this time‚ cannabis has been a topic of discussion and of course‚ argument. Recently‚
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Marijuana is a misunderstood drug that is thought of as a dangerous‚ when it is in fact anything but that. Marijuana is a drug obtained from dried parts of a hemp plant called Canabis Sativa. It is ingested by rolling it in tobacco paper or smoking it through a pipe. For centuries‚ marijuana has been used by different nationalities for religious‚ recreational‚ and medical use. While it is currently illegal in the United States‚ marijuana is legal in European countries such as Holland and Belgium
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Michele Sanchez ENC1101 Professor Goldberg December 15‚ 2014 Legalization of Medical Marijuana My father is a diabetic and is currently a medical marijuana patient in California due to his poor eating habits. He was prescribed medical marijuana to lower and control his insulin level. In a multicenter collaboration‚ researchers found that regular marijuana use was associated with better blood sugar control in diabetics‚ according to an Elsevier press release (Rizk‚ par.2). The team was able to
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of Minn. partying with (white) female students‚ smoking [marijuana] and getting their sympathy with stories of racial persecution. Result: pregnancy" and "Two Negros took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days under the influence of hemp. Upon recovery she was found to be suffering from syphilis." 2 In 1996‚ Proposition 215 was passed in California and this allowed for the medical use of marijuana. Since then‚ 22 other states‚ D.C‚ and Guam have enacted similar laws. These laws have
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Bob Marley one stated‚ “herb is the healing of a nation‚ and alcohol is the destruction". Marijuana is a green or gray mixture of dried‚ shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa that is typically smoked but can mixed and cooked in food. It contains the mind altering chemical THC or tetrahydrocannabinol. Marijuana looks like a mixture of dried leaves‚ sticks and flowers. It can range in color from green to brown. There are over two hundred names for the drug; weed‚ Mary Jane
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