Grounds for Medicinal Marijuana In a little under a month California will be voting on Proposition 19. If approved‚ this proposition will legalize marijuana for recreational use; the drug will be taxed heavily‚ and would apply DUI to marijuana users. However‚ California is the only state “progressive” enough for this act. In fact‚ 36 states have not even legalized cannabis for medical use ("14 Legal Medical Marijuana States and DC”). The medical community continues to advance our ability
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Unit 3 Assignment: The Legalization of Marijuana Tierra J. Neal Kaplan University Professor Eboni Green Health Policy March 22‚ 2016 Unit 3 Assignment: The Legalization of Marijuana In 1970 when the Controlled Substance Act was in the process of being drafted‚ marijuana was placed in Schedule I category with the advice from the Assistant Secretary of Health; Roger E. Egeberg. In the United States when drugs are placed on the list of Schedule I‚ this means the drug or
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Medical Marijuana for Cancer Marijuana is the dried buds and leaves of assortments of the Cannabis sativa plant‚ which can develop wild in warm and tropical atmospheres all through the world and be developed industrially. It passes by numerous names‚ including pot‚ cannabis‚ grass‚ weed‚ hash‚ hemp‚ marihuana‚ ganja‚ and many others. Weed has been utilized as a part of natural solutions for hundreds of years. Researchers have recognized numerous naturally dynamic segments in marijuana. These are
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Legalization of Marijuana According to a US government recent survey‚ “ Marijuana is the most popular illegal drug in the United States‚ the survey shows that more than 83000000 people tried marijuana at least once in there life’s.” There are more and more studies about marijuana‚ and most of the studies show that most of the people tried marijuana first when they were in high school. Nowadays‚ people define marijuana as a dangerous drug‚ because they see the bad effects‚ and don’t see the positive
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people rule out marijuana as a derogatory thing that has no positives‚ I am here to tell you this is untrue and marijuana has plenty of health benefits‚ for example‚ marijuana slows the progression of alzheimer’s‚ slows the spread of cancer‚ and treat inflammatory bowel diseases such as crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. This shows that marijuana has a reason to be used‚ not just for the enjoyment. Keep in mind that there are many more than three positive benefits of marijuana. First off‚
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English Persuasive Essay Medical Marijuana Unfairness Cannabis Sativa (marijuana) has been around for thousands of years. It’s a plant that grows native to Africa and Asia. But it has been exported all over the world and used for its physcoative ingredients known as THC. The THC gives you a feeling of being high and is now illegal is the single most used elicit substance on the planet today. (Wikipedia) Marijuana has been used for many different reasons over the last couple thousand years. It
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the Legalization of Marijuana SOC120: Introduction to Ethics & Social Responsibility The ethical issues that are presented regarding the legalization of marijuana are: Can an action that has no victim be considered a crime? Doesn’t the constitution give us the right to life‚ liberty and the pursuit of happiness‚ if marijuana and its effects make one happy‚ do we not have the right to pursue it? Would legalization truly cause more people to smoke marijuana? Is marijuana truly as “bad” as
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Medical Marijuana Should marijuana be a medical option? This seems to be the question that many people ask and a very controversial issue that many people argue over. But there are many pros and cons to medical marijuana that many do not know about. People have used marijuana as a medical treatment for thousands of years. Marijuana has been hailed as a prescription for many ills and physicians once used it to stimulate the appetite‚ relieve chronic pain‚ and treat asthma and migraines. Many
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Marijuana can be found on every college campus in the United States and is the drug of choice coming in right behind alcohol. Harvard School of public health conducted a survey over the last eleven years and found that marijuana use in college has gone from 26.4 % in 1989-1991 to 33.6% in 2000 (http://www.edc.org/hec/pubs/prev-updates/marijuana.html). According to a similar study‚ the majority of students on college campuses that use marijuana will also participate in other high risk activities
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argument and another for the anti-pot argument. Your final assessment that marijuana still needs to be controlled could then be your support of that ideology in the final analysis at least
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