Cannabis‚ also known as marijuana‚ is a psychoactive drug that produces a heightened‚ euphoric and relaxed mood. Marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug in the U.S. More the 18 million Americans age twelve and up have reported to using the drug. The war on marijuana started back in 1937 when Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act. Since then‚ the marijuana black market has sky rocketed and many American’s smoke every day. According to a national household survey an estimated sixty million
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The situation of the legalizing marijuana is a very popular topic‚ I think it needs to be legalized. I myself with complete honesty‚ do not smoke or have any use of marijuana. In my opinion the legalization of marijuana can benefit the United States. The idea of legalizing marijuana in the country might be exceptional for others‚ but it’s more towards the economy. The legalization of marijuana can have excellent changes‚ but also can contain minor flaws. If marijuana were to be legalized it would
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I have always been against the use of all illegal drugs including marijuana‚ but while researching this topic‚ I have learned a lot about some of the positives of legalizing marijuana use. Considering it is classified as an illegal controlled substance‚ I have always been under the assumption that marijuana was bad for people‚ no matter what my friends may have said about how good it was. I was peer pressured into trying it when I was fourteen. I knew right away that it was not for me. It made
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economic growth in the United States Legalizing Marijuana would bring in a lot of money for the states and the federal government. Why wouldn’t the federal government want to make this nation a better economy where no everyone could have a job‚ and be able to take care of their family. for Should Recreational Marijuana be legal at a Federal level. Legalizing Marijuana would bring in a lot of money in taxes‚ only people who are 21 and older can only purchase marijuana so teens would not be able to buy
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23 June 2011 Cause Effect Essay Effect The Effects of legalizing Marijuana in the US Americans have gone back and forth about whether to legalize marijuana or not‚ and in some states there are pharmacies that sell medicated marijuana to patients with glaucoma. In legalizing marijuana it will solve some of the US’s problems‚ but at the same time create a tremendous amount of newer ones. One of the best things about legalizing marijuana is that it would put a lot of drug dealers out of business
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Do the overall benefits of Marijuana Justify its legality? When we were just little kids‚ our parents and teachers told us that drugs were the devil and that we should never even consider taking them. Marijuana was always on that list of “bad” drugs ‚ while we were told that pharmaceutical drugs can help us if we were sick. Marijuana is classified as a schedule 1 substance in the same category as deadly drugs like heroin and MDMA‚ while addictive pain-killers ‚ anxiety medications (which are far
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Marijuana legalization‚ is an issue that can be dated back to the late ninetieth century (PBS). This issue continues to be a controversial topic in today’s world. State and federal laws still collide on the issue of marijuana legalization. On November 2‚ 2010‚ California voters voted on a ballot called the Regulate‚ Control‚ and Tax Cannabis 2010. Prior to this date‚ Charles Stimson wrote an article‚ “Legalizing Marijuana: Why Citizens Just Say No‚” in order to persuade California voters to not vote
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The general use of marijuana can be viewed from two different aspects. These aspects include both the pros and the cons of the drug. Many Americans are in support of the drug in terms of medical use. Personally‚ I believe that there is nothing wrong with the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. Medical marijuana is the only non-synthetic medication out there that treats many of society’s health problems. A few of these problems include; relief from nausea‚ loss of appetite‚ and certain pains
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PHI-105 11/20/2012 Beverly Santelli The Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana has been criminalized for enough generations to make it a fear or pride issue in the minds of the lawmakers and the voting public. The Federal government may have just kept it a schedule one drug because it has been one for so long‚ but‚ to legalize it at the federal level instead of various states legalizing it could create new wealth and give our country back its financial independence. However this will only really
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(plato.stanford.edu) Virtue based ethical theories focus less on the rules and regulations that people need to be following and focuses more on the why and what the person’s character development should entail. Teleological theories focus on the goals of the actions‚ and the deontological theories focus on acting in accordance with the moral laws. The virtue based ethical theory suggests that you act in ways that develop virtuous characteristics
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