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Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana, Weed, Pot, Hemp, Cannabis, Grass, all these words have the same meaning. There is an ongoing controversy on wither or not Marijuana should be legalized. Both sides have good issues that support them but the positive effects of legalizing marijuana are far g...
Today's common tasks can be hard on a person. Anything can cause stress in our lives, and many have founded ways to cope with it. The solution to their stress is marijuana. There is no exact date when cannabis, the plant that marijuana came from, came to the United States. &quo...
Introduction The use of marijuana on college campuses is one of the mostcontentious issues facing the academic world today. Marijuana is widelyused within American society, despite widespread anti-drug lobbies andprevention campaigns. The effects of marijuana have been said to includeeffects o...
One of the most popular and excessively used drugs in our day and age is the drug marijuana. Up until 1937, marijuana, also known as Cannabis sativa, was legal in the United States for all purposes. Now since then, marijuana hasn't been so accepting in our country. Cannabis sativa was banned with...
Over the past decade extensive medical research had been done in an effort to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. There have been a number of attempts in congress for a bill to be passed legalizing this drug. However congress has yet to pass the bills proposed. Will legalization of marijuana...
Over the past decade extensive medical research had been done in an effort to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. There have been a number of attempts in congress for a bill to be passed legalizing this drug. However congress has yet to pass the bills proposed. Will legalization of marijuana...
Marijuana In this report I will show you my views on Marijuana, if it should be legal, for medical and/or recreational purposes. Marijuana has many names: Dope, Marihuana, Ganja, Pot, Mary Jane, Cannabis Sativa (Scientific) to name a few Marijuana originated in the middle east (Taiwan, Korea). Ch...
Marijuana, should it be legalized or remain a burning issue of controversy? \"Marijuana is a drug made from the dried leaves and flowering tops of the hemp plant\" (DuPont 189). Even though the cultivation, distribution, possession, and use of marijuana are illegal in many nations, including the Uni...
In America, we have a drug problem. Most do not like to admit it, but the problem is not getting better and it will most certainly not be solved with the current methods of drug enforcement. Those same people will also vehemently deny the fact that, those who use drugs are not the only ones causi...
Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana has been effectively prohibited in the U.S. since 1968, and has been a very controversial issue ever since. Marijuana is native to central Asia and was first cultivated some 10,000 years ago. "As early as 2737 B.C.E. in China, written accounts have extoll...
Anthony Braganza Mary Jane 13/1/04 Cannabis sativa, commonly known as Marijuana or Cannibis, is able to grow in roughly 30% of Canada. Thriving in warm, wet climates such as that of British Columbia, the delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that the herb produces in its stems is used as...
Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in America today. However it is the least understood. Not until about the 1960\'s did many people know about marijuana and the harm it causes. Marijuana is a green, brown and gray mixture of dry shredded leaves from the hemp plant (Cannabis Sativa). Mar...
Media & Marijuana It all started in 1937, when Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act. Ever since that cold day in December things have gone downhill for anything associated the miracle drug known as Marijuana. Ever since then, the media has downplayed marijuana and the effects it has on American...
Medical marijuana was legalized in Michigan during the last election on November 4, 2008. Michigan\'s Medical Marijuana Law, Initiated Law 1 of 2008, received an unbelievable 63% of votes, receiving the majority support in 83 of Michigan\'s counties. This law went into effect on December 4, 2008, an...
Should marijuana be legalized for medical use? Legalizing the use of marijuana would be a very difficult but understanding situation. If marijuana was legalize it should be describe for people who has a lot of stress or maybe just the enjoyment of being "high" and having a good time with ...
Currently, drugs remain high on the agenda\'s of politicians, and drugs are considered one of the major problems affecting our country. I believe that the negative effects associated with drugs would be reduced greatly if the United States adopted a policy towards the total legalization of marijuana...
Should Marijuana be Legalized? Abraham Lincoln once said, "Prohibition makes crimes out of things that are not crimes." This is true with the prohibition of marijuana: the use of marijuana should not be a crime, but prohibition makes it one. The real crimes are being committed by the ...
When looking at some of the major issues happening in our country we feel one stands out legalization of medicinal marijuana. The Federal government refuses to legalize marijuana for medicinal use, even though several states already have it legalized. For example California proposed proposition 215 ...
The debate over the legalization of marijuana and the use of medical marijuana has been strongly argued throughout the history of the United States and is still a very controversial issue. There are many strong arguments for the legalization of marijuana and the use of marijuana for medical purposes...
Marijuana is an illegal drug with many medical uses and should be made legal for those patients who need it. There are many valuable medical uses for marijuana not recognized by the Federal Government. Though some states have legalized its use for patients with the permission of their physician, ...
People smoke marijuana to get a psychological reaction known as a high. This consists of changes in the user's feelings and thoughts. When you are high off marijuana everything seems to be funny. They tend to laugh at everything. They tend to hear things that they do not ordinarily hear, like y...
DESCRIPTION:Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leavesof the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa. Marijuana is often called by street names such as pot,herb, weed, boom, Mary Jane, gangster, reefer, or chronic. There are more than 200 slangterms for marijuana. HISTORY...
Medical MarijuanaMarijuana prohibition applies to everyone, including the sick and dying. Of all the negative consequences of prohibition, none is as tragic as the denial of medical marijuana to the tens of thousands of seriously ill patients who could benefit from its therapeutic use.    It is c...
Clayton Jones Thesis Rough draftThe possession of, or intent to sell, marijuana is illegal today and has been legislated against since the passing of the Harrison Act in 1914. The Uniform Narcotics Act in 1932 listed it, and many other drugs illegal, although in many states and towns it has been ill...
Marijuana can cause many harmful effects. There has never been a major test though. The ones they've used have shown very different things. I have been very surprised by what I have been reading. I cannot believe the difference in what different scientists think.One says, "It's hard to know for sur...