Legalizing Marijuana “Marijuana is the most common illegal drug used in the United States. Approximately one hundred million Americans have tried marijuana at least one and twenty five million have smoked it in the last year” (31 Random). Legalizing marijuana in all states would be beneficial to the United States. Marijuana is not a harmful drug‚ it is much safer than alcohol‚ and legalizing it could be really helpful for most people. Making marijuana legal would help improve our economy‚ could
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online article‚ 3 Reasons to Reject Legalizing Marijuana‚ Larry Tomczak discusses the reasons why marijuana legalization should be rejected in the United States. Though Tomczak makes some smart choices by using emotion to appeal to the audience‚ his use of logical fallacies such as jumping to conclusions and false analogies make Tomczak’s argument not as strong as it could be. The whole point of Tomczak’s article is to convince readers that the legalization of marijuana is a horrible idea not only for
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Fallacies editorial These days‚ a person hears a lot about legalizing marijuana and why it could be beneficial for our country‚ but people forget why it was illegalized in the first place. Marijuana is a drug. Drugs are addictive and deadly. If we legalize marijuana now‚ we’ll end up with a generation of reefer addicts who die by their mid-30s if they manage to escape being the victims of violent crime. Also‚ the people who use marijuana now despite the fact that it is illegal clearly are people
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ethical theory. For a discussion of John Stuart Mill’s essay Utilitarianism (1861)‚ see Utilitarianism (book). The Utilitarianism series‚ part of the Politics series Utilitarian Thinkers[show] Jeremy Bentham John Stuart Mill Henry Sidgwick Peter Singer Forms[show] preference utilitarianism rule utilitarianism act utilitarianism Two-level utilitarianism Total utilitarianism Average utilitarianism Negative utilitarianism animal welfare Abolitionism (bioethics) Hedonism
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Legalizing Marijuana Can Help Boost The Economy Marijuana is a drug commonly used today by teenagers and young adults. Most people don’t acknowledge marijuana as being a drug. People use marijuana to escape from their problems‚ while others may use it just for a feeling of relaxation. Although these are not the only reasons people use marijuana‚ these are two of the most common reasons. Many people try to come up with reasons against the use of marijuana. However‚ the effects of marijuana are not
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Utilitarianism Utilitarianism the ethical doctrine of the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the criterion of the virtue of action. The principle that utilitarianism use in making moral decisions is a form of moral hedonism; that people should seek pleasure and avoid pain. Utilitarianism seeks to produce the greatest good for the greatest number. But‚ the problem is in determining what the greatest good is. Utilitarian define the “good” as good is what equates pleasure and reduces
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Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a moral theory generally considered to have been founded by Jeremy Bentham‚ a 19th century English philosopher and social reformer. It is centered on the concept of happiness‚ and those who seek it. The idea is that all people seek happiness‚ and that it is the ultimate goal of all human beings to be happy. Therefore‚ according to classical utilitarianism‚ when a person wishes to act in an ethically sound manner he or she should strive to bring about the greatest
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Utilitarianism Utilitarianism is a philosophical theory that believes that right thing to do comes from a measurement of the amount of pleasure over the amount of pain‚ and decides that the right thing to do results in what will be the greatest pleasure for the majority of the group. In other words by calculating happiness you will be able to decide what the right thing to do is as long as it is right for the majority of the people. This seems as if it will only help the people that agree on the
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theory of Utilitarianism The theory of Utilitarianism takes its name from the Latin word Utilis‚ meaning ‘useful’. It was first developed by Jeremy Bentham‚ a philosopher and legal theorist of the 18th century. Bentham sought to produce a modern and rational approach to morality which would suit the changing society of the industrial age. This was also the era of the French and American Revolutions‚ and of the Enlightenment‚ so orthodox morality was challenged on many fronts. Utilitarianism may be
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30 March 2014 Up in Smoke The legalization of marijuana in the United States has been a major issue for several years. There are many opinions on this topic‚ some people don’t give marijuana a thought. Many people including most government consider marijuana a “bad drug”. Marijuana actually has many good uses. Marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes‚ to reduce America’s prison population and to boost the economy. The use of marijuana as a medicine is rapidly becoming popular in the
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