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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legality of marijuana has been a hot topic debated upon for years. However‚ upon close inspection of studies and articles‚ it is clear that it is in the better interest of the government to lift the ban on marijuana. The first thing I learned from the inquiry into this issue was that prohibition fails to control the use and production of marijuana. On the contrary‚ the illegal aspect tickles the curiosity of teenagers‚ resulting in opportunists seizing this chance to sell marijuana to them. The
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Rodriguez Mrs.Mercado English 11R 3/15/2016 Recreational Marijuana Marijuana has been illegal since 1937. The Marijuana Tax Act‚ enforced because people believe men of color would solicit sex from white women while under the influence of marijuana. According to multiple tests and the statistics more people have died from cigarettes and alcohol. Marijuana should be legal due to the shear fact that it is safer than alcohol and cigarettes. Marijuana to this day‚ after 79 years‚ in some places is still
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Smoking Marijuana has some pros and cons but‚ more cons of course. The chemicals that are in this substance are known to cause cancer such as; Tobacco‚ ammonia‚ hydrogen cyanide‚ and formaldehyde. There’s no research that marijuana causes lung cancer like cigarettes do. But people that smoke pot do show and have research. Does smoking pot change the way your brain thinks? Works? Function?. “Heavy pot smokers in studies score lower than non-users on tests of memory‚ attention‚ and learning. The more
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Marijuana is one of the most researched drugs on the planet‚ but there is also been huge amounts of misinformation. The drug first came to America with Mexican immigrants around the turn of the 20th century. At first‚ white Americans were afraid of the immigrants with there weed. It was said that marijuana turned them into blood thirsty killers. One of the first anti-marijuana propaganda films was "high on the range"(1929) in which it is implied that the drug will make you kill people the second
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12/4/12 Medicinal Marijuana. In 1972‚ the US Congress placed marijuana in Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act because they considered it to have "no accepted medical use." (http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/) After this act only 17 states of the US have legalized the use of medical marijuana. In my opinion medicinal marijuana should be legal across the united states of America. It should be legal only for medicinal purposes‚ not for everyday use. In the 17 states that marijuana is legal has
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Legalizing Medical Marijuana The debate over whether to legalize marijuana has been one of the most controversial issues dividing courts‚ the federal government‚ state governments‚ and voters. In 1996‚ Arizona and California voters overwhelmingly approved the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Propositions 200 and 215 represented a dramatic shift from a previously united federal and state front against illegal drugs to one where state governments and voters are now at odds
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Medicinal Marijuana Cannabis‚ weed‚ grass‚ reefer‚ THC; These are all names that we give to a super-drug called Marijuana that is benefitting society beyond belief. Marijuana is a highly beneficial flowering plant that can be consumed by someone and this plant‚ when smoked or consumed‚ creates euphoric and profound effects on an individual’s mental and physical state. When it comes to medicinal use of marijuana‚ the positive aspects of the drug outweigh the negative to a ridiculous extent. Recreational
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I believe that marijuana is not bad for you there is no death from marijuana. I think it is ward that the FDA thinks that alcohol and cigarettes is safe and weed will kill you that is mind boggling that alcohol and cigarettes are good. Alcohol is known to cause liver cancer and cigarettes is known to cause throat and lung cancer. Many people say that marijuana is bad but the statistics say that alcohol is worse. It seems to me that alcohol has all these dangers‚ yet‚ according to the statistics
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Alcohol vs. Marijuana There are many sedatives to disconnect from reality in the modern world of today. All of them are used everyday but there are two main drugs that are affecting modern day America‚ that is between marijuana and alcohol. Which is better? Are the two different? We can’t disconnect these two completely from the world‚ we’ve tried prohibiting alcohol for a solid 13 years. That didn’t last too long. The first documented date marijuana became illegal was 1906. ( Charles Q. Choi
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