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    2011 Marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug in America behind only alcohol and tobacco‚ and is estimated that nearly 80 million Americans use it at least one occasion.   According to government surveys‚ some 20 million Americans have smoked marijuana in the past year‚ and more than 11 million do so regularly despite harsh laws against its use. Being used for medicinal purposes or simply for recreational‚ there are not only laws to consider when the topic of legalization comes up

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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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    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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    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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    body­   they  have  just  ingested  marijuana​ .  Marijuana  has  successfully  hit  mainstream  America  in  the  past  four  decades  and  the  prohibition  of  marijuana  has  been  a  continuous  debate  through  America​ .  The history of marijuana began in the 1700’s and the use of  it  back  in  history  was  all  beneficially  used​ .  Until  recently‚  extraneous  research  has  been  committed  to  the  side  effects  and  health  benefits  of  marijuana  that conclude two sides​ . One side 

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    The Legalization of Marijuana The dispute between the legalization of marijuana has been around for hundreds of years. The history of marijuana dates back to the third millennium BC. Cannabis‚ which is marijuana‚ has many different uses. Some of these uses include a recreational drug‚ as a religious rite‚ as a spiritual rite and even medical uses. So why is cannabis illegal? Cannabis was once legal and was one of the largest agricultural crops in the world. It was once one of the largest agricultural

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    against the legalization of marijuana usage. I interviewed four people‚ three girls and one boy. My dependent variable was the participants and their points of view while the independent variables were the questions that were asked. Five questions were asked and they all were asking for opinions on marijuana. The questions were asked from an unbiased point of view. My process of finding the data included asking a person if they were willing to take an interview on marijuana legalization and if they

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    teacher) "YES to MARIJUANA IN PHILIPPINES" I. Introduction Marijuana is a topic of significant public discourse in the United States‚ and while many are familiar with the discussions‚ it is not always easy to find the latest‚ research-based information on marijuana to answer to the common questions about its health effects‚ or the differences between Federal and state laws concerning the drug. Confusing messages being presented by popular culture‚ media‚ proponents of “medical” marijuana‚ and political

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    21 March 2012 Word Count: 1252 Legalizing Marijuana According to the United Nations 162 million people‚ about 4.0% of the world population uses marijuana annually. 0.6% of the world population‚ or roughly 22.5 million people‚ use the drug daily. In the United States‚ this translates to 1% of our population‚ a relatively small number of people at 1.4 million‚ using marijuana every day. Even though it’s a small percentage of Americans that use marijuana‚ it’s caused a very heated debate about the

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