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Marijuana Tax Act Reform Of Marijuana Laws
1,514 wordsFor thousands of years the plant cannabis sativa, otherwise known as hemp or marijuana, has been harvested by people and utilized in many different ways. It has been grown to provide food for villages and towns, and used for clothes, rope, and sails on early ships. The Bible was written on hemp paper, as well as the first draft of the US Constitution. Marijuana has been utilized for its medicinal value since four to five hundred BC. Not until a half-century ago did the hemp plant become illegal ...
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Marijuana For Medical Medical Use Of Marijuana
1,122 wordsIn the late 1970 s, Susan Nelson watched her husband, Don, vomit constantly. Don was undergoing chemotherapy to treat his testicular cancer. The body rejects the drugs used in chemotherapy by means of vomiting. The constant vomiting caused Don further tissue damage than he already had. In 1989, Susan discovered she had lymphoma. Susan also went under chemotherapy, but during her whole treatment she only vomited once. Why do you think this is? She took matters into her own hands: she fired up a j...
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Marijuana For Medical Medical Use Of Marijuana
2,711 wordsIn 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 causing the actual problem. Like the users themselves, the ones who wage the war on drugs are also at fault, guilty of not doing what is best for the individual or the situation as a whole. In America or inte...
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First Amendment Rights England Journal Of Medicine
1,681 wordsNora Parker January 19, 2000 English 10, per 2 Marijuana Prohibition is a Violation of First Amendment Rights Let me ask you something? if you had a choice, what would it be: Marijuana or Martinis? This question appeared in the New York Times on Tuesday, May 12 th, 1998. Due to the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 the only legal choice that you and the 18 million other adults who used marijuana last year can make is the martini (Against Drug Prohibition ix). The legal acceptance of alcohol, however, do...
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Medical Use Of Marijuana Marijuana Prohibition
450 wordsMost Americans do not want to spend scarce public funds incarcerating nonviolent marijuana offenders, at a cost of $ 23, 000 per year. Politicians must reconsider our countrys priorities and attach more importance to combating violent crime than targeting marijuana smokers. Marijuana prohibition costs taxpayers at least $ 7. 5 billion annually. This is an enormous waste of scarce federal dollars that should be used to target violent crime. Marijuana prohibition makes no exception for the medical...
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Central Nervous System Marijuana As A Medicine
1,366 wordsThe Legalization of Marijuana as a Medicine Imagine if one of your loved ones was suffering from a very painful, lethal disease such as cancer. There is a substance that can relieve their pain, but due to a law instituted several decades ago declaring that substance illegal they will be forced to suffer. If marijuana was legalized, strictly for medical purposes, then much of the pain and suffering experienced by cancer patients and those suffering from various other afflictions could be lessened...
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