more than 3.5 billion dollars to enforce marijuana laws. In the year 2010 alone‚ cops made a marijuana arrest every 37 seconds (ACLU). To add to those eye opening numbers‚ 52% of all drug arrests in 2010 were for marijuana (ACLU). By looking at these statistics‚ it is evident that the government spends an abundant amount of time and resources trying to crack down on marijuana users. Our tax dollars are going towards arresting men and women for smoking marijuana‚ when there are many dangerous and important
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Medical Marijuana A debatable topic in the United States has been the talk of making Marijuana legal for medicinal purposes. Included in the legalization of marijuana contains the right to sell‚ grow‚ use or buy marijuana. The origin of marijuana‚ cannabus satiba‚ came from Eastern Europe‚ India and Iran. Marijuana is the dried blossom of cannabis sativa and cannabis indica plants‚ leafy annual plants with parts that are used for as herbs‚ animal food‚ medicine and as
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Medical Marijuana Medical marijuana‚ is this going to medical miracle or a medical disaster? Medical marijuana should be legalized for patients in their end stages of disease and have no other options. The legalize marijuana‚ is a question many state governments are fighting against federal governments to stop the recession of legalizing the drug everyone talks about. What is marijuana‚ what is the used for? It is becoming legal in many states‚ which states passed a law to use medical marijuana
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Marijuana is a very prominent and controversial issue in society today. Although many slanderous claims have been made about cannabis in recent history‚ the truths are slowly starting to resurface. Unfortunately‚ these truths are under heavy criticism due to the stereotypical view of what people view as the typical “pot smoker.” This skewed perception of a lazy and unmotivated American is the result of over seventy years of propaganda and misinformation spread by private interests who relied on illegal
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Prescription Medical Marijuana Many different people have different views on the prescription of medical marijuana. Marijuana is a good form of medicine for those who really need it. People think that marijuana should be illegal in their state. Physician recommend this substance to patients with illnesses. In the 1970’s a synthetic version of THC in marijuana. In order to get prescribed marijuana you have to have an illness such as anorexia‚ anxiety‚ cancer and many more Some people thought that
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Marijuana Legalization Marijuana should be legalized and taxed by the government because it has a low risk of abuse‚ and it can be used for many medical reasons. Prescription drugs kill about 100‚000 people in the world each year. Off the top of your head‚ do you know how many deaths are caused by using marijuana‚ either medically or recreationally? According to statistics‚ marijuana has not yet been recorded to be a cause of any death‚ ever. Not only are marijuana’s
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Tin 1 Allison Tin Professor T Composition 1 17 April 2014 Medical Marijuana: Using It Vs Abusing it Recently‚ the effects of medical marijuana have been noted to be helpful in an abundance of ways to people with different terrible situations. For example‚ Charlotte Figi is a girl with very serious epilepsy. Weekly enduring hundreds of seizures made life truly miserable and torturous for Charlotte. She continued the severe seizures consistently despite the anti-seizure prescription drugs
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Marijuana has been around for thousands of years ‚ Many citizens of the united states have heard of marijuana (cannabis) as a common drug‚ but there are also people who use it medically. The official term for marijuana is cannabis sativa. The active ingredient with in marijuana is tetrahydrocannabinol‚ frequently called THC. Marijuana is a plant that grows from a seed just like every other plant. My proposal is not defending the legalization of marijuana for recreational use‚ but essentially the
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Pot. Dope. Cannibis. Grass. Marijuana. For years there has been a negative stigma attached to this plant‚ but that’s exactly what it is‚ a plant‚ something that grows in the ground‚ and it is not inherantly evil like some people believe. It is the use or misuse of it that is good or bad‚ not the plant itself. I think that it is time we look past all that we have been told about the dangers of marijuana and see that it actually has legitimate medical uses. And I believe that if it was something developed
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Medical Marijuana Marijuana has been around since ancient Egypt with many uses as a antiseptic‚ paper‚ plastic‚ and even medical but since the probation of marijuana‚ marijuana has been mainly sold on the streets‚ leading up to the war on drugs. In recent years studies have shown some evidence that marijuana may have medical uses but being labeled a Schedule 1 drug by the federal government no study can get the proper funding to keep researching. There are medical benefits to marijuana‚ who knows
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