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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Use of Marijuana As Medicine If your every waking moment was consumed by pain and nausea‚ wouldn ’t you ask for medication? What if the only medication legally available would leave you unconscious or do nothing at all? If you were the one suffering‚ would you resort to the only treatment that allowed you to live normally even though it was illegal? Thousands of people across the country are forced to break the law to ease their pain. They have chosen marijuana over anything legally available
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Against marijuana legalization Should Marijuana Be Legalized? In society today‚ many people look for a feeling of freedom. Many people go on vacation and spend money. The most common gateway for people is drugs. Our American society is facing a tremendous drug problem. In order to eradicate the drug problem‚ a public debate is going on to find some solutions to this drug dilemma. It has become a highly controversial issue whether drugs such as marijuana should be legalized or not. Some people
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Marijuana Legalization‚ Harmful or Helpful? The fact that there is an unregulated street drug that is used by millions is daunting to some. Marijuana is an illegal street drug that is not regulated by the federal government. This proves to be detrimental to marijuana users‚ and also serves an economic setback for those against marijuana legalization. The American government has not taken many key factors into consideration that are of immediate concern‚ one being that millions of Americans today
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Marijuana Should Be Illegal Herlina Pryor BCOM/275 March 23‚ 2014 Instructor: Jamey Pippert Why Marijuana Should Remain Illegal Published: February 26‚ 1994 To the Editor: I read with concern "Legalizing Marijuana Would Allow Regulation of Its Potency" (letter‚ Feb. 13). According to the writer‚ marijuana with high levels of tetrahydrocannabinol‚ or THC (the chemical that causes the psychoactive effects on the abuser)‚ is not a new phenomenon‚ and this high potency should not be used
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Keep our environment pollution free Good morning to my principal‚ Mrs. A.K. Chan‚ all the teachers and my fellow friends. Thank you Mrs A.K. Chan for giving me a chance to present me for giving a speech about keeping our environment pollution free to everyone in this hall. I am here to talk about keeping our environment clean‚ as you can see all of us are suppose to take care of this planet to make it a better place‚ but why aren’t we doing it so? We are not doing much. We must make a change
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lights of entertainment signs. The hippies of the sixties and seventies passed pipes of burning marijuana‚ promoting peace while protesting for the rights of millions of Americans. No doubt‚ both drugs have had a major influence on the country‚ both have had their “glory” days. After a time of prohibition‚ the once thought sinful substance of alcohol was re-legalized. Marijuana‚ on the other hand‚ remains illegal in the country of the United States. But through increasing medical knowledge‚ more is known
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Speech: Legalizing marijuana Introduction: There is in April 2016 going on a debate about legalizing cannabis‚ the drug minister of England is the one who started this debate. A group of students‚ who are studying social science‚ have been inviting him to their university to hold a speech about the ongoing debate. The speech is about to be hold in the election period and the speech holder is a fictive young man; he is British Liberal Democrat‚ and the drug minister in the Britannia. It’s a public
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hands‚ who believes that marijuana can withdraw symptoms? For example‚ the symptoms include irritability‚ sleeping problems‚ negative emotions‚ craving‚ and anxiety can harm your whole nervous system (2219). Marijuana is an illegal drug which affects our living at a high risk‚ increasing the causes of cancer or breathing problems which leads your life to danger after taking marijuana. The first reason of how marijuana withdraw your symptom is emotional stress. Marijuana withdrawal is linked to
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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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