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Alcohol And Tobacco Legalization Of Marijuana
868 wordsLegalization of Marijuana (Cannabis) is highly logical in a day where alcohol and tobacco products, (although restricted by age) are available to millions of people every day. Someone has to wonder why there is such controversy about the proposal to legalize marijuana. Cannabis would benefit the economy enabling new jobs in the U. S. The sale of Cannabis would benefit the government as well with a tax. Being an illegal drug Cannabis has more helpful causes than Of course, there are many argument...
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Evidence That Marijuana Life In Prison
1,824 wordsA total of 3, 470, 545 Americans have been arrested for marijuana offenses. In 1997 state and local law enforcement arrested 695, 200 people for marijuana violations. That number is the highest ever recorded by the FBI. Of the 682, 885 arrests made in 1998, approximately 88 % were for simple possession. The remaining 12 % were for sale and manufacture. Every 52 seconds, a marijuana smoker is arrested in America. This is truly a waste of law enforcement and a waste of our tax money. These people ...
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Clear Cutting Fossil Fuel
1,541 wordsThe uses and applications of paper and paper products are virtually limitless. In addition to the societal needs of paper for recording and disseminating of information, and for packaging materials, the United States pulp and paper industry employs more than 200, 000 people, produces nine million tons of pulp, and 26 billion newspapers, books and magazines annually. Though U. S. mills represent only 15 % of paper mills worldwide, they produce 36 % of the world's paper (Smook, 1992). "Exports of ...
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Heart Rate And Blood Pressure State Of Consciousness
1,567 words... s system (which controls the "fight or flight" response) to be activated. Once the sympathetic nervous system is activated, a user enters in a state of euphoria where the person may feel more activated and alert. One of the organs that the vasoconstrictor effects is the heart. When cocaine is taken through intranasal administration, a high heart rate and blood pressure may result. These problems can lead to cardiomyopathy, the condition in which the heart contracts abnormally. "Cardiomyopath...
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Marijuana Users Action Network
948 wordsWhen you think of someone who drinks alcohol once in a while, do you think of a criminal? Probably not. What about someone who smokes marijuana? Its probably more likely, even though most marijuana users only crime is solely the use of marijuana. This is because current U. S. laws make possession of marijuana illegal and I believe these laws are in great need of reform. Let me start off with a brief history of the cannabis plant from which marijuana is derived. Marijuana (then known only as hemp...
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Cannabis Plant Mind Altering
1,170 wordsFor Legalization The cannabis plant has been the topic of much debate throughout the history of this country. Many people don't know that it was not the effect of cannabis that originally spurred its banning. It was actually originally the work of the cotton industry who put big money behind il legalization for the plant's mind altering effects. The cotton industry was afraid that hemp, a product of the cannabis plant, would soon overpower the strong hold of cotton since it was a more durable te...
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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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Brain Damage Proven Wrong
717 wordsLegalizing marijuana What this cant be true, marijuana cant be good for you it causes asthma and bronchitis. Oh wait I almost forgot thats just another misconception of marijuana in truth it is actually good for people suffering from asthma and bronchitis. Yeah right, this wonder of a drug isnt only not bad for you, but it can actually promote good health. This drug can save lives, it can restore peoples vision, in fact there isnt much this drug cant do. Marijuana can save the lives of people di...
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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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Short Term Memory Smoking Marijuana
1,058 wordsThe Effects of Marijuana Marijuana is a mood altering or psychoactive drug that has many nicknames, such as pot, weed, ganja, sensi, herb, and others. It is an ancient drug that dates back to hundreds of years to Asia. Many cultures have used it during meditation, religious worship, and for intoxication. Marijuana itself comes from the Indian Hemp plant. It is the third most widely used drug in the United States, according to a survey taken in 1988, and it is the number one illegally used drug i...
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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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Lester Grinspoon Aids Patients
753 wordsLegalization of Marijuana What is marijuana? According to Harvard Medical Professor Lester Grinspoon, it is a miracle drug, one that prevents blindness, acts as an appetite stimulant for AIDS patients, and prevents muscle spasms in epileptics. When speaking of the same plant, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics for over thirty years, Harry J. Anslinger said that this evil weed led to killings, sex crimes and insanity. How can two such highly respected experts have such night and day outlooks...
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Marijuana Laws Medical Marijuana
782 wordsCannabis has been one of the most controversial and most misunderstood genus of the plant kingdom. Used for a number of things including clothing, paper, fuel, food, and medicine, marijuana seems to be a wonder crop. However in 1937 due to some of its medical and chemical properties, U. S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Marijuana Traffic Act, outlawing the possession and sale of marijuana. Since then the majority of countries around the world have created similar laws. Why would the ...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized Smoke Marijuana
963 wordsI can not think of anyone who would stand up and say drugs are good. Although all of them do not have be illegal. A person should have the right to choose what he or she wants to do in the privacy of his or her own home as long as it does not directly harm anyone else. I believe Marijuana should be legalized because it has been proven to be less harmful than alcohol and tobacco. It has many medical and industrial uses. The crime rate would drastically reduce which would lead to more prison space...
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Herbal Medicines Medicinal Purposes
759 wordsFor many years the legalization of marijuana has been debated all over the world. The use of marijuana has been used for recreation and medicinal purposes for thousands of years. The hemp plant, the source of the drug hashish, is one of the commonest weeds in the world. There is little danger that it will seriously promote the drug habit. Fear of its abuse has been expressed in various localities where the plant has been discovered growing. Hemp has been in this country for many years, having be...
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Medicinal Marijuana Long Time
696 wordsI Marijuana For the Better I have often wondered why the War on Drugs has not been very effective, in fact, it really has done nothing. Take for example marijuana. It is banned in any form of growth and use everywhere in the United States. Yet, this drug gets just as much use as alcohol. I probably know just about as many potheads as I do alcoholics, yet the persistence of the government to waste countless billions of dollars to try and wipe out the use of this drug is pathetic. Take for example...
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Drug Related Made Illegal
698 wordsShould Marijuana be legalized? Affirmative We need fuel! We need paper! People are starving! The answer to these problems is grow more pot. If we really want to save the rain forest than that is the answer. According to the U. S. department of agriculture you can make 4 times as much paper with hemp as you can with the same land area of trees, and you can grow another crop when youre done. Plus it only uses 1 / 5 the chemicals and is + the cost of paper made from trees. In fact, before the 20 th...
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Marijuana As Medicine Legalization Of Marijuana
2,287 wordsMainstream vs. Alternative Media; who do we believe? The Journal of Media Studies Writer Discussion of the legalization of marijuana brings up two main issues, those who are pro- marijuana and those who are anti- marijuana. These issues have been covered by both mainstream and alternative media, mainstream being pro, and alternative being anti. These two factions have been arguing over this issue in the halls of justice for many years. Because most of the American society is mainly exposed to on...
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Moby Dick Captain Ahab
2,364 wordsAhab's Struggle for Revenge Many writers over time have attempted to do the exact same thing. They have tried to create a story about one characters journey, an explanation of the events leading up to that journey, and the results of it. Throw in a little symbolism, and you have a format that has been used and reused over the years. This type of plot can be seen in such classics as The Catcher in the Rye, Huckleberry Finn, and The Odyssey. Besides these popular stories, there are inevitably fail...
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War On Drugs 18 Th Amendment
3,290 wordsDrug Legalization and Reagan Man, as a creature, is inherently bored. Since the dawn of time, it has been the natural instinct of man to find alternative methods to enhance his being. The many means by which man has turned to include sex, gambling, and the consumption of substances beyond the requirements of nutrition. The consumption of substances can be further broken down into legal and illegal substances. The question then becomes, who are we to place labels on certain substances by deeming ...
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