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Hemp Seeds Gateway Drug
503 wordsMarijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded Leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the hemp plant. Marijuana is the name given to the plant cannabis sativa. The legalization of marijuana would not only bring the pointless bickering to a screeching halt, but also tend to those who need relief from pain and certain diseases. All forms of marijuana are Mind-altering drugs. The ingredient that gets you high in marijuana is called Delta- 9 -tetrahydrocannabinol or THC. The marijuana...
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Tattoo And Body Piercing
618 wordsTattoo and body piercing has become very popular with adolescent s and adults in their early twenties. While the general public and parents may perceive this procedure as rebellious and deviant behaviors, some reasons adolescents offer for body piercing is that it is a form of body art, it is a fashionable, it makes a personal statement. Adolescents and young adults are developmentally susceptible to rebellious behavior, it is seen by many. For others, it fulfills, a need to justify social anxie...
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Effects Of Marijuana Psychological Effects
450 wordsMarijuana can be used for the body in various ways or methods. This potential gateway drug causes or produces an impact on abilities used to perform various tasks. Marijuana affects the body by impairing judgment, changing mental functions, lowers inhibition, and by affecting reaction control of the user. The sensitivity of this drug asks only one question. How does Marijuana it affect the body? Marijuana has serious effects on the skill required to drive safely, alertness, the ability to concen...
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Gateway Drug Crime Committed
899 wordsMany have experienced the negatives of marijuana in their lives and witnessed the problems of others. Marijuana is a harmful drug and should not be legalized! It is a gateway drug or also known as a stepping stone drug. Theory, suggest that the progression to more dangerous substances is inevitable. (Hanson) Many reasons have surfaced about why it should be legalized, government regulation, taxing purposes, and long and harsh sentences given to marijuana offenders. In addition, of all the reason...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Violent Crimes
1,115 wordsIn 1978 the state legislator of New Mexico made a law allowing physicians to prescribe marijuana to patients suffering from nausea caused by chemotherapy, much of this due to the efforts of a cancer patient by the name of Lynn Pierson. The Federal government modified the law to make it comply with IND regulations requiring a research program. The FDA also demanded many studies and required the doctors to fill out many pages of forms for every patient and documenting their progress, slowing the p...
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Marijuana Tax Act Marijuana Smokers
1,619 wordsWhy? Marijuana is illegal. Illegal to possess, purchase, distribute or grow. To start off the basic non-creative, non-read between the lines question; Why? Why was marijuana made illegal that fateful day 68 years ago. Is there a justifiable reason to the original criminalization and continuation of that law to present day? So, again I ask; Why? Yet, besides the reason why marijuana is illegal many are against the prohibition laws. However, possibly just as many are for keeping marijuana in the s...
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Legalize Marijuana Drunk Drivers
2,115 wordsIn recent years, debates over whether the government should legalize the drug marijuana, and the resulting drug war, have made headlines nationwide. The idea that doctors and researchers have been persevering to prove is that marijuana has medical uses for patients with certain diseases and disorders. But the government has their eyes closed to the facts. Doctors and scientists who have studied marijuana agree that it does have some medical benefits, and some feel the government is so busy fight...
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Drug Enforcement Agency Short Term Memory
1,057 wordsHow do we define a drug? Who makes a drug illegal and why do they make it illegal? Marijuana is considered a drug; but why is it considered a drug? In this essay I hope to persuade you that marijuana doesnt deserve the label it has been given. I will use several different examples that will prove to you that marijuana isnt as harmful as people portray it to be. This is a discussion that we have had in the past, when or culture was trying to prove that alcohol wasnt as bad as our government was t...
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John Stuart Mill Legalization Of Marijuana
1,364 wordsIs Prohibition an Appropriate Standard? Richard Dennis, the author of Chemical Dependence: Opposing Viewpoints, says that The appropriate standard in deciding if a drug should be mad; e legal for adults ought to be whether it is more likely than alcohol to cause harm to an innocent party. If not, banning it cannot be justified while alcohol remains legal. By applying Denniss standard to the prohibition of marijuana in the United States, the logical decision would be that it is unjustified to ban...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Smoking Marijuana
1,732 wordsLegalization of Marijuana Marijuana is the dried flower clusters and leaves of the hemp plant when taken to induce euphoria. Marijuana has been in existence for centuries even Magellan spoke of it during his trip to India. In his log he spoke of a plant that you smoked that made a man drunk without drinking. Marijuana would be beneficial if legalized because it would bring in extra money, it has medical uses, hemp is one of the best materials in the world and on average it is healthier for you t...
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National Institute On Drug Abuse Act Was Passed
2,804 wordsLegalization of Marijuana Marijuana is a misunderstood drug that is thought of as dangerous, when in fact it is in anything but. Because of peoples ignorance and gullibility marijuana has become illegal for all the wrong reasons and should highly be reconsidered for legalization. People today dont understand that for centuries, marijuana has been used by different nationalities of people for religious, recreational, and medical use. Marijuana has been legalized in such European countries as Holl...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Remain Illegal
832 wordsThe Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana is a very controversial topic. This subject has been debated numerous times over the past few years. The issues surrounding marijuana are both varied and complex. There are many people in the world who have their own personal views and beliefs on this topic. Some people believe that the legalization of marijuana is only acceptable for medical purposes. Supporters argue that it will greatly benefit our economy and that it is no more harm...
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Illegal Drugs Gateway Drug
378 wordsMarijuana, also called mary-jane, pot, grass, weed, dooley and reefer, is the most commonly used illegal street drug in North America. It causes numerous amounts of health risks, its a gateway drug, and it can mess up your life by getting you in trouble with the law. Marijuana in its self could cause brain damage, reproduction and hormonal damage, Immune system damage, cancer, lung disease, or heart damage. It increases your heart rate, makes your mouth feel dry, impairs motor skills, reddens ey...
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American Medical Association Prohibition Of Marijuana
2,218 wordsDonovan Kessler Anderson 11 - 29 - 00 Term Paper A huge amount of Americans are currently being arrested and sentenced for defying an unjustly created law. These Americans suffer from overly harsh penalties and may even be sentenced to death just for relaxing in ways similar to how many Americans drink a beer to relax. The current excuse from government officials for keeping marijuana illegal is that it leads to the use of harder drugs, which is a lie. Something needs to be done to protect other...
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Marijuana Smoking Tobacco Smoke
906 wordsMarijuana Legal or Illegal Cannabis, sold as marijuana, hashish and hash oil, is the most frequently used illicit drug in Canada. Roughly one in four Canadian adults report having used cannabis at some time in their lives. Cannabis use has been on the rise among young people. ? For example, a 1997 Addiction Research Foundation survey found that 25 per cent of Ontario junior high school students used cannabis in the previous year, up from 13 per cent in 1993. ? (cannabis) Knowing this, should the...
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Short Term Memory 5 Billion Dollars
1,049 wordsCrime or Past Time According to the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) Presently, law enforcement arrests a marijuana smoker every 45 seconds in America at a tremendous cost to society. The marijuana issue often times goes in many directions such as legalization, decriminalization, and prohibition. There are good arguments to all three directions. The key to which direction to choose is not that easy. One must way the positives and the negatives of each direction befo...
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Dollars A Year Effects Of The Drug
1,546 wordsMarijuana has been illegal for almost sixty years and at no time have we successfully rid the country of this drug. Right know marijuana is the third most popular recreational drug, the first two being cigarettes and alcohol (Working 1). This proves that prohibition doesn t work and people know the difference between drugs that are really bad for them and drugs that aren t that bad if used in moderation Our government is spending millions a year on a fight that will never be won, maybe it is tim...
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