Cigarettes claim 400‚000 American’s lives every year. The use of all illegal drugs combined - cocaine‚ heroin‚ marijuana‚ angel dust‚ LSD‚ etc. account for only about 3‚000 deaths annually. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse‚ however‚ there have been no deaths that can be unequivocally attributed to marijuana use. Yet‚ the federal government has banned the use of marijuana‚ while allowing alcohol and cigarettes‚ even allowing them to be advertised on television and in magazines. Cigarettes
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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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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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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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Cyborgs Essay - Virtue and Ethics In this article Neil Harbisson‚ a fully fledged human Cyborg‚ talks about his ’eyeborg’ and the different art works he has created thanks to this amazing new technology. Neil Harbisson says that Technology will be increasing its integration into our body to extend our abilities‚ knowledge and perceptions of reality. Harbisson suffers from a visual impairment called Achomatopsia‚ which is where he only sees in shades of grey. To aid this he wears his eyeborg
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School The legalization of Marijuana By Zachery Cywinski Marijuana has a lot of beneficial characteristics for many different types of people and can make an impact on people’s lives especially those who benefit from its medicinal aspects. Marijuana has also been around for thousands of years and has been used by many generations for many different things like‚ feeding livestock‚ making rope and even in building materials and many more things as well. Marijuana should be legalized in all
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Why Marijuana Should Be Illegal When it comes to the use and legalization of marijuana I strongly believe that it should not be legal. Recreational marijuana should not be legalized in Minnesota because of many reasons. Granted there are a few pros to it but the cons are more present in this discussion. The cons of Marijuana surely does outweigh the pros in my opinion. Therefore‚ it should be illegal. First of and foremost there will be less drug use in teenagers‚ secondly‚ it is bad for your physical
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To persuade my audience that legalizing marijuana can be a detriment to the future of our society. Central Idea: Identifying the negative impacts that marijuana will bring if legalized. Attention Grabber: In a drought we don’t need grass. Introduction I. What is Marijuana? A dry‚ shredded green/brown mix of flowers‚ stems‚ seeds‚ and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa‚ it usually is smoked as a cigarette (joint‚ nail)‚ or in a pipe (bong).” a. “Marijuana is the most commonly abused
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LP3.2 Assignment: Draft #1 I have been working on an essay for my composition class. Naturally‚ I had to write about marijuana! Marijuana is a very honest and controversial issue in society today. Many have been slanderous claims have been made about cannabis in recent history‚ the truths are slowly starting to come forward. There is so much criticism due to the stereotypical view of what people view as "pot smoker". America thinks that "pot smokers" is the lazy and unmotivated kids of our generation
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Prompt #1 Rosalind Hursthouse is a renowned moral philosopher who champions virtue ethics‚ one of the three major approaches in normative philosophy. In contrast to deontology and consequentialism‚ virtue ethics is an agent-centered approach that answers the question of “what should I be?” while does not provide clear rule or ethical answers on why one should/should not act. (Guidry-Grimes‚ 1/31/2013) Virtue ethics empathizes the role of moral character embodied by the moral agent for assessing
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