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National Drug Control War On Drugs
1,889 wordsShould Drugs Be Legalized In America? As the nation's drug problem persists, issues continue to haunt communities. The question is will legalizing drugs really help or will legalization make problems increase in our society? If drugs remain illegal, a number of complications that could appear as a result of legalization will never occur. Keeping drugs illegal poses a lesser problem than legalization. Drugs should not be legalized not only because legalization is bad for the country but also beca...
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Marijuana Laws Norml Marijuana Tax Act
1,248 wordsMarijuana has had a relationship with mankind throughout history all over the world. The amazing plant has brought mankind food, clothing, fuel, medicine, building materials, and has the ability to affect our perception and views of the world. According to Rowan Robinson (1996), the marijuana plant, also called hemp, has been found in forms of rope and cloth in the oldest tombs, was written about as a healer in the earliest medical texts, was used for sails for the first explorers's hips, and wa...
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Smoked Marijuana Muscle Spasms
2,304 words... approved proposition 215, an initiative that could, in effect, make marijuana legally available as a medicine in the United States for the first time in many years. Under this new law, patients or their primary caregivers that possess or cultivate marijuana for medical treatment recommended by a physician are exempted from criminal prosecution. The treatment may be for cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana pr...
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Legalization Of Marijuana Marijuana Legalization
1,431 wordsThe controversy of legalizing marijuana has been raging for quite a while in America. From some people pushing it for medical purposes to pott-heads just wanting to get high legally. Marijuana has been used for years as a popular drug for people who want to get a high. All this time it has been illegal and now it looks as if the drug may become legal. There has been heated debate by many sides giving there opinion in the issue. These people are not only left wing liberals either. Richard Brookhi...
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Marijuana Tax Act American Medical Association
2,757 wordsInstantly, from the title of this essay, you will stereotype me for being a pothead. Well, I m not. The reason I did this topic is because I was not informed of all the facts, and believe they should be shared. I also once thought that those people at NORML (a group of people trying to legalize Marijuana) were just potheads, wanting to smoke up all the time. I received information on them, and their beliefs. A lot of this information makes perfectly good sense, and should be considered and read ...
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1,256 wordsMarijuana has Marijuana Plant Marijuana Plant Marijuana has had a relationship with mankind throughout history all over the world. The amazing plant has brought mankind food, clothing, fuel, medicine, building materials, and has the ability to affect our perception and views of the world. According to Rowan Robinson (1996), the marijuana plant, also called hemp, has been found in forms of rope and cloth in the oldest tombs, was written about as a healer in the earliest medical texts, was used fo...
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Medical Marijuana Federal Law
231 wordsFederal Drug Enforcement Agency said its been the DEAs position that large-scale, sophisticated growing operations are a violation of federal law, which prohibits marijuana cultivation. Proposition 215 simply did not change federal law, and it did not change the San Francisco DEAs interest in these types of cases, spokesman Stan Vegas said. Medical marijuana advocates, however, say the raid shows contempt for California voters. Right now we have a black tar epidemic, a heroin black tar epidemic ...
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1,243 wordsRecently doctors have prescribed marijuana, and? the Clinton administration threatened to prosecute doctors who prescribe marijuana, ? (Gonnerman 40). Doctors are prescribing marijuana for its medical benefits. The Clinton administration on the other hand is outlawing marijuana because it has not been approved by the FDA. Since doctors feel marijuana has medical benefits it should be clinically tested so they can prescribe it for their patients. Marijuana can be used for many medical reasons. Fo...
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Marijuana Laws Norml American Cancer Society
1,530 wordsLegalization of Marijuana for Medical Purposes Currently, 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 everyday over drugs. What about the people who need marijuana to help them perhaps live longer and healthier? I believe that the federal government should legalize marijuana for medical purposes. There are millions of people nationwide who suffer w...
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Dodd Mead Sperm Count
1,291 wordsDrug use is becoming more common today than in recent years. Almost anywhere we look, we can find some relation to drugs or drug paraphernalia. In fact, 63 % of you stated in my survey that you had smoked marijuana in the past. That number is scary, since 81 % of you are under 25 years of age and have your whole lives ahead of you. Some of you may be thinking So What Bill Clinton has admitted smoking marijuana, and he is President. Well, that surely is not a good attitude to have considering the...
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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 For Medicinal Purposes Institute Of Medicine
934 wordsMarijuana: A new medicine? In society today, there are many serious diseases that plague nations all across the world. Diseases like Glaucoma, Epilepsy, Parkinsons disease, and migraine headaches. What do all of these serious illnesses have in common? Every one of theses sicknesses can be cured or helped by the use of Marijuana. Throughout this paper I will discuss the positive aspects of Marijuana and the negative aspects. This issue has been raising a lot of eyebrows ever since scientific evid...
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Controlled Substances Act Marijuana Tax Act
3,566 wordsMarijuana as Medicine Introduction Marijuana is a drug made from the dried leaves of the Hemp plant. Marijuana is also known as cannabis, which comes from the scientific name of the Hemp plant or Cannabis sativa. These dried leaves are usually smoked in rolled cigarettes or pipes to achieve a psychological feeling of euphoria or well-being. The marijuana plant contains more than 460 known compounds, of which more than 60 have been identified as cannabinoids. The most studied cannabinoid, 9 -tetr...
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Controlled Substances Act Schedule Ii Drug
4,391 wordsMarijuana (also spelled marihuana) is a psychoactive drug made from the dried leaves and flowering parts of the hemp plant. It is one of the most strictly classified illegal drugs in the United States. Under the 1970 Controlled Substances Act, marijuana is listed as a Schedule I substance, which defines it as having a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. Marijuana is therefore classified more severely than cocaine and morphine, which as Schedule II drugs are also banne...
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Marijuana For Medical Purposes Act Of 1996
1,895 wordsJames Mahoney was diagnosed with testicular cancer in 1993. In an effort to put his disease into remission, the medical team decided chemotherapy would be the best treatment. After one cycle of chemotherapy, James was treated weekly. As soon as he came up to some minimum baseline standards shown by the blood test, he was admitted for another cycle. For the most part, though, he knew before the doctors did when he was ready for another cycle. When he woke up in the morning and actually didn t fee...
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Medical Marijuana Supreme Court
434 wordsMedical Marijuana The U. S. Supreme Court may turn Nevada s plan to have sick patients use marijuana into a ruling Monday. They provided no legal leeway for medicinal use of the drug. Assemblywoman Chris Giunchigliani, a Democrat from Las Vegas, who sponsored Nevada s medical marijuana bill, said that the ruling doesn t affect the current plan before the Legislature that would allow patients to join a state medical registry and grow up to seven plants for personal use. They re not doing to send ...
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Marijuana For Medical National Institute Of Health
837 wordsMedical Marijuana Since marijuana was discovered, it was smoked to get high and to cope with suffering medical conditions. Scientists are now realizing that marijuana could help in some medical cases. It s not particularly effective across the board, but it may be effective for some people some times, LaMar McGinnis (medical consultant to the American Cancer Society). It should be available as a controlled substance. Pot helps with many medical conditions, especially cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, and ...
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Smoking Marijuana Medical Marijuana
815 wordsMarijuana should be legalized in the United States for medical uses because it has been found to be useful in the treatment of many illnesses, as well as having many medical benefits. Marijuana is from the flower of the ganja plant; it is a mild, non-addictive drug with hallucinogenic properties. The are FDA recognizes and has provided permits for 8 medical marijuana patients in the United States. (1) Many individual states have their own provisions for medical use of marijuana and it is also re...
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1,558 wordsMedical Uses of Marijuana-Good or Bad? There are two sides of marijuana being used for medical purposes. Many people think it is great and say it will help the pain go away. Other people believe it is a bad idea and become additive over time. Many propositions and court cases have contributed to marijuana use. A popular one is Proposition 215. This is a medical marijuana initiative. The biggest argument is that there is no real evidence that smoked marijuana is more effective than any other avai...
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Controlled Substances Act Schedule Ii Drug
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