The Relationship of Marijuana Accessibility & Substance Abuse Abstract A growing concern in the medical and mental health field is the relationship between marijuana use and further illicit drug abuse. Due to the recent state laws passing in Washington and Colorado‚ there has been a need for a study to address the accessibility factor in relations to the “gateway hypothesis” to marijuana. The fear is that the increase in accessibility of marijuana will result in an increase of substance abuse
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Drug Legalization in the United States Kristie Hurley Ashford University Abstract This paper will explore four websites and one online newspaper addressing the subject of drug trafficking in the United States and why legalization is a profitable alternative. The various ways drugs are bought into the country‚ information on how and why drug trafficking has increased in the United States‚ statistics on the number of people that are addicts‚ and the problems related to foreign countries on this
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Cannabis Introduction The topic I will be discussing today is cannabis‚ marijuana‚ weed‚ pot‚ or ganja‚ whatever you prefer to call it. I did this topic because I believe that the majority of people do not know much about cannabis‚ and I want them to be properly informed so that they are not drawn in by false information. In this speech you will hear me use the terms hemp and marijuana. Hemp and marijuana are both products of the plant cannabis‚ but the important difference in the two is the amount
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English Comp 121-007 June 24th‚ 2013 Medical Marijuana Cannabis‚ better know as Marijuana‚ has been around since 2900 B.C. A Chinese Emperor Fu His‚ referenced the plant as being‚ “a popular medicine that possessed both yin and yang.”(ProCon.org) In America‚ the use of Marijuana and the concept of it has been kicked around and jumbled for hundreds of years. It has been generalized and put in a box. Beginning with George Washington‚ he grew Marijuana on his private plantation for thirty years. In
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The Fight For the Legalization of Medicinal Marijuana There Megan lied‚ shaking in spasm‚ body aching in pain and to top it off unable to see. She had been suffering from a disability named Cerebral Palsy (CP) as well as beeping legally blind since birth. Sadly‚ for her disability‚ there is no cure‚ just harsh painkillers prescribed to cope with the pain. To make it even worse‚ in the state she lives in‚ Rhode Island‚ the natural medicine she needs is illegal for purchase. All of the country
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arresting people possessing marijuana. It gives true information and numbers about the money spent and how many people have been arrested in the past few years. However it does not show legit reasons on why marijuana should be legalized. The author bases himself on the fact that people who smoke marijuana are also pay their taxes and love their children‚ therefore‚ not showing reliable evidence on why marijuana should be legalized. Jacobs‚ Edward A.‚ “Impact of legalizing Marijuana”‚ American Academy of
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Legalizing Marijuana Christopher Hutchins March 4‚ 2015 ITT Technical Institute: Breckinridge School of Nursing Marijuana is a very prominent and controversial issue in society. Although many slanderous claims have been made about cannabis in recent history‚ the truths are slowly starting to surface. Unfortunately‚ these truths are under heavy criticism due to the stereotypical view of what people view as the typical “pot smoker.” This perception of a lazy and unmotivated America
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Narrative History of Texas Annexation‚ Secession‚ and Readmission to the Union Texans voted in favor of annexation to the United States in the first election following independence in 1836. However‚ throughout the Republic period (1836-1845) no treaty of annexation negotiated between the Republic and the United States was ratified by both nations. When all attempts to arrive at a formal annexation treaty failed‚ the United States Congress passed--after much debate and only a simple majority--a
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Texas Annexation Tiffany Calvert HIST105-1302A-03 Abstract This paper describes how America came to own the territory of Texas. The territory was obtained and there were many short-term and long-term consequences that came from the obtaining of this territory. These will be described as well. Texas Annexation The United States did not start out as all 50 states united at first. They were all individual territories at first. There were many treaties and wars that led to the different territories
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The Most Imminent Threat that Texas Faces Like most states‚ Texas faces a host of problems; that stem from both cultural and environment issues‚ but unlike most states Texas is a state that shares a 1‚254-mile long border with Mexico‚ a country that has their massive problems. Geography alone has provided Texas with problems that are difficult in the best of times‚ but in this age of a huge drug problem in the United States along with the rise of international terrorism‚ those problems have grown
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