Does Legalizing Marijuana Really Make Sense? Should marijuana be sold freely and made available to everyone? To me it makes somewhat sense. There are several beneficial effects as well as there are some very not as much. The debate over the legalization is very heated here in the United States. Marijuana is legal in some states for medical purposes only and others have not quite been convinced of the cannabis. Our newly re-elected president‚ Barack Obama‚ says he is against legalizing marijuana
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Legalized Marijuana: Pros and Cons While the public opinion of marijuana has steadily gained more approval throughout the years‚ the government opinion has increasingly become stricter‚ especially with regards to drug laws. The United States of America has recently had to reanalyze its stance on the matter due to many new medical studies‚ approval of marijuana in some states‚ such as California‚ and the repercussions given to the people convicted from the use of it. Marijuana continues to be illegal
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Benefits to Legalizing Marijuana Reggae artist Bob Marley said‚ "herb is the unification of mankind". Marley believed that if more people smoked marijuana the nation would come to together‚ rather than be at war and bringing harm to one another. Bob Marley is just one of the many weed activist‚ explaining how marijuana actually has not caused as much destruction to this world as the legal drug‚ alcohol. This essay will go on to display how Bob Marley had the right take on marijuana usage and
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The legalization of marijuana has recently been a rather controversial issue‚ although there should be no issue at all. Marijuana should be legalized. Prohibition was once tried with alcohol and it was proven that it does not work in any manner‚ and it should soon be proven again with marijuana. Some reasons why marijuana should be legal include there are numerous medical benefits‚ its creates a very harmful underground society‚ and prohibition costs very much money. There is very much proof that
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The government should legalize marijuana Marijuana is a depressant that puts the user in a state of euphoria and serenity. Marijuana has proven to cure many sicknesses and help with the symptoms of other sicknesses. It can also have a tremendous effect on the economy and even forming and entire new market! It has enough power to end crime and gang warfare. Marijuana should be legalized because of those reasons. Marijuana is a very effective prescribed medicine and can be used to help patients
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Essay 4: Legalization of Marijuana We the people in the US try to use reason and logic to determine our laws. as a consequence of this intellectual process‚ we develop graded scales for punishment and degrees of illegality. The more dangerous an activity the more illegal and higher punishment‚ lesser activities are either not illegal or endorsed. Marijuana illegality defies this rational thinking in that it is less detrimental than alcohol and cigarettes and yet is treated far worse. Most pharmaceutical
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Title: Benefits of Legalizing Marijuana General Purpose: To Persuade. Specific Purpose: To persuade or reinforce the attitude of my audience towards the legalization of marijuana being best for our country. Thematic Statement: There are many reasons for why marijuana should be legal but due to lack of time I will only be discussing marijuana’s health risks and how it compares to alcohol‚ the government’s financial gain from legalization‚ and popular oppositions and myths about marijuana. ------------
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MARIJUANA SHOULD NOT BE LEAGALIZED It is true that marijuana can be useful for some type medical reason‚ but there are other arguments that state that marijuana could cause other medical problems. These arguments against the use of medical marijuana include the increased risk of psychosis‚ inferior effectiveness in treating glaucoma and increased risk in developing certain of cancer Ingesting marijuana slows down motor skills and reaction time‚ can sometime cause paranoia and mood swings‚ fatigue
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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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The Greatest Happiness principle in general is good‚ but it has many flaws as any ethical systems does. Due to our inability to perfectly predict the future according to our actions (assuming he future is capable of being altered with our actions)‚ the results we desire are capable of‚ and often do‚ fall short of what was intended. If unforeseen parameters caused all of our actions to backfire‚ even though we were attempting to act in accordance with Utilitarianism‚ we would all be considered immoral
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