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Marijuana Use Essays and Term Papers
Legalizing Medical MarijuanaMarijuana, also known as cannabis, is the most commonly used illegal drug. It is considered a soft drug and consists of the dried leaves of the hemp plant. The drug is either smoked or chewed for an euphoric effect. The first use of marijuana is recorded around 2500 B.C. in ancient Chinese ...
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MarijuanaSaskia Hillebrand
October 19, 2012
Marijuana
For many years now, there has been great controversy surrounding the illegal drug marijuana. Its widespread use since the Vietnam War has caused many people to speak for and against marijuana and its uses. However, in the recent past, a completely ...
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Should Marijuana be Legalized for Medical Purposes?Should Marijuana be Legalized for Medical Purposes?
Marijuana has been used extensively as a medical remedy for more than five thousand years. In the early 1900s, medical usage of marijuana began to decline with the advent of alternative drugs. Injectable opiates and synthetic drugs such as ...
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Legalizing Marijuana As A Controlled Medicinal SubstanceLegalizing Marijuana
The issue of legalizing marijuana is a highly controversial one. It has engendered divisive social debates wrought with equally convincing arguments as to why it should or should not be done.
Proponents of legalizing marijuana cite the potential health effects of the ...
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Controlled Legalization Of MarijuanaLegalizing Marijuana
The debate over legalizing the use of marijuana is rooted in real world concerns such as crime, violence and public health. It is also a problem rooted in conflicting values. Thus, while the courts and law enforcement authorities continue to crack down on marijuana use, ...
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Medical Uses Of MarijuanaFor several decades, researchers have sought to determine whether marijuana has legitimate medical uses, and narcotics control agencies have discouraged them from finding out. Now a new round of federally funded research may provide some answers-or will it? The latest skirmish between scientists ...
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Legalizing MarijuanaMarijuana is the name for the drug that comes from the leaves and flowers of the Indian hemp plant. The hemp plant can be found growing as weeds or as a cultivated plant throughout the world. This plant can grow in many soils and climates, but it is most potent when grown in dry, hot, upland ...
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The Push For Legalizing MarijuanaCurrently, drugs remain high on the lists of concerns of Americans and are considered one of the major problems facing our country today. We see stories on the news about people being killed on the street every day over drugs. To many people drugs are only an inner-city problem, but in reality ...
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Q/A: Legalization Of Marijuana"Prohibition . goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to
control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things
that are not crimes. "A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very
principles upon which our government was founded." - Abraham ...
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Marijuanais a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant. You may hear called by street names such as pot, herb, weed, grass, boom, Mary Jane, gangster, or chronic. There are more than 200 slang terms for . Sinsemilla (sin-seh-me-yah; it's a ...
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Should Marijuana Be Legalized??
In society today, many people look for a feeling of freedom. Many people go on vacation and spend money. The most common gateway for people is drugs. Our American society is facing a tremendous drug problem. In order to eradicate the drug problem, a public debate is going on to find some ...
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Marijuana For Medicinal PurposesIn 1936 when Marijuana was made illegal it was considered a medicine in
good standing with the American Medical Association. At the time Marijuana could
be found in twenty eight different medical products and countless other consumer
products. On November 5th, 1996 California and Arizona passed ...
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Is The Illegalization Of Marijuana Valid??
The debate over the legalization of Cannabis sativa, more commonly known
as marijuana, has been one of the most heated controversies ever to occur in the
United States. Its use as a medicine has existed for thousands of years in many
countries world wide and is documented as far back as 2700 BC ...
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MarijuanaAn ongoing research project headed by associate professor of
psychiatry Harrison Pope had one subject who had smoked every
day for a long time. To participate in the research-which actually
concerned not drug use but testosterone-he had to stop his use.
The man had been such a heavy use that, ...
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Proposition 215: Should Marijuana Be Legalized??
Medical Marijuana Initiative Section 1. Section 11362.5 is added to the Health
and Safety Code, to read: 11362.5. (a) This section shall be known and may be
cited as the Compassionate Use Act of 1996. (b) (l) The people of the State of
California hereby find and declare that the purposes of ...
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Legalization Of Marijuanahas been an issue for a long time.
Marijuana was first brought up as an issue in 1915. It had since then
became a much bigger issue in the 1960's and is now being considered for
medical purposes in the 1990's. Some of the issue's faced can be
described as: Legalization for medical purposes and ...
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THe Use Of MarijuanaIn America, alcohol use is legal. What is it that causes recreational use of marijuana to be deemed illegal by our government? George Washington and Thomas Jefferson both grew marijuana for recreational use. Are the harmful effects that marijuana has on your body worse than those of alcohol? ...
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Legalization Of MarijuanaThe battle of legalizing marijuana has been going on for many years. On one side people say that Marijuana is a gateway drug and will lead to other more dangerous drugs such as Lysergic Acid Diethylamide ( LSD), phencyclidine (PCP), and Opium. On another side Marijuana creates pacifism and is a ...
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Marijuana - The Forbidden FruitThe Forbidden Fruit
Marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug in America, only behind alcohol and tobacco, and has been used by nearly 100 million Americans. Marijuana is much less of a health threat when compared to alcohol or tobacco. Around 50,000 people die each year from ...
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Legalizing MarijuanaJerin Xavier
Professor Heilman
ENGL 1101-48
22, Feb. 2012
Legalizing Marijuana
The year was 2009, in Fresno, California; the world's biggest marijuana bust was documented. It was worth almost one billion dollars, eighty two arrests and killing almost three hundred thousand marijuana ...
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