How do you feel about legalizing marijuana? Marijuana should be legalized for recreational use because it would reduce street violence‚ reduce organized crime‚ and increase tax revenue. Legalizing marijuana would lead to less street violence. In the text it states that people who are taken advantage of could call the police to settle disputes if marijuana was legalized. It would allow police to focus more on violent crimes and tracking down criminals. It would also open up jail cells to relieve
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Cons on marijuana use In this essay I will be talking about the cons of marijuana use I will give examples and reasons why it shouldn’t be used or legalized in the country. Some examples of why it shouldn’t be legalized is because some specialist say that its gateway to use of other drugs another thing is that children or little kids can get their hands on marijuana and the last thing I’m going to explain why marijuana is bad is the type of stuff that marijuana has in it all of this will be explained
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Weed Shouldn’t Be Legalized When you read the topic of this essay you will realize that the main goal of this essay is to show the cons of weed and its bad effects on the smokers around the world. According to the United Nations "3.8% of the people around the world smoke weed at least once a year‚ in other words 266 million smoke weed." Most of the smokers are young men and women among 18-22 years old‚ if you are a high school student or university student‚ it is more likely to have a friend who
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Abstract In Jacob Cecil’s paper‚ who is a BYU-Idaho student majoring in social work talks about controversial topic on the legalization of marijuana. He focuses in on few core topics that heavily impact individual’s views on this topic. The one fiery debate that he goes into how it’s surfaced again is the prohibition of marijuana‚ then he fires into the effects on the body mentally and physically. Then dives into the medical marijuana benefits‚ the effects on our society‚ and goes
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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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Marijuana: Medication or Threat to society? By Ciro R.Wong Ms. Mims English 1302 8 May. 2012 Ciro R. Wong Ms. Mims English 1302 8 May 2012 Marijuana: Medication or Threat to society? As we all know the United States has made marijuana also known as cannabis illegal‚ but should they re-legalize it? There is a high demand for marijuana even though it’s against the law. It can be very profitable. For each gram of marijuana the street value is $17.20‚ but the production cost was only
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The Legalization of Marijuana Joseph LeClair COM/205 September 28‚ 2011 Mary Mandley The Legalization of Marijuana Even though in the federal government ’s view‚ marijuana is a gateway drug‚ it should be legal because medical marijuana has fewer side effects than other legally prescribed drugs and it can be prescribed for many symptoms. The controversy of marijuana has been going on since the United States Government has made it illegal in the 1930s. Alcohol is legal and causes problems with
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States’ relationship with prohibition‚ in particular marijuana‚ has always been a hassle towards the U.S. The past shows that the U.S. has run into trouble with prohibition and taking away what the people want. Marijuana is popular throughout the world but the U.S. in particular is in a very high demand of the substance. Of course what goes with high demand will also have trouble that follows in any means necessary to receive what they want. Marijuana being illegal causes humans against their rights
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next door? Marijuana use is looked down upon by society in general but more and more people are taking advantage of it. Marijuana has favorable effects for its users when it comes to physical feeling and experience‚ but it can also put our families and those that we expose it to in uncomfortable and often dangerous situations. | The scientific term for marijuana is “Cannabis Sativa”‚ but is also referred to as weed‚ Mary Jane‚ grass‚ hash‚ and countless other street names. Marijuana can be smoked
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Should marijuana be legal or not The matter of weather marijuana should be legal or not has been a question that has been asked for many years. However; no one clearly has the answer only opinions. Marijuana has many different identifications such as‚ weed‚ pot grass‚ reefer‚ ganja‚ Mary Jane‚ blunt‚ joint‚ and or roach. Marijuana has an ingredient known as THC. This affects the nerve cells in the part of the brain where memories are formed (ncadi.samhsa.gov 2003) Marijuana makes a person lose
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