Drugs have become one of the most controversial topics in the world. Some specific drugs are more frowned upon such as Marijuana. Marijuana is a plant in which its official name is “Cannabis”. Over the years this plant has become increasingly popular to people who don’t usually convert to traditional methods to relieve the stress of a hard day. “The National Drug Threat Assessment states that over 25.8 million individuals 12 years of age and older have smoked marijuana at least once in their life.” The rate has remained the same since 2008. The government labels these statistics as too high as they fight to keep one of the most contentious substances off the market. In 1970, Congress passed The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act .…
Medical marijuana has become a popular drug in the last couple of years. Medical marijuana is legal in a few states such as, Arizona and California. However Federal Law still states that this drug is illegal and that it should not be distributed (Dorell). Cannabis is used to treat a variety of different symptoms that come with certain types of illnesses like cancer, chronic pain, and nausea just to name a few (Legallizing). The benefits of this drug have helped many people and is a natural remedy compared to chemicals created in a laboratory. It is well…
Marijuana, or cannabis, as it is more appropriately called, is the third most popular leisure drug to be used in America. It sits just behind alcohol and tobacco. Although having possession of marijuana is illegal, 25 million people use it yearly and 14 million people consume it regularly. Numerous people believe that marijuana only has negative effects on those who practice the use. During this essay, you will acquire the positive effects of the use of marijuana. Positive effects can be shown through medicinal use, everyday use, and the “gateway” myth.…
There are a numerous number of drugs in the United States. There is a drug like marijuana that you could smoke, get high from, and still pass a urinary test with it in your system. This drug can be called many things: legal spice, spice, legal, potpourri, and anything else someone might come up with. The two most common drugs used in the US have been legal spice and marijuana. The scientific term for legal spice is Synthetic Cannabis it is an herbal and chemical item that when smoked, mimics the effects of marijuana. It is best known as legal spice or K2. (http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.apollolibrary.com/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=106&sid=59ce6c0d-f7a1-4779-a1b8-6cab4e630f4d%40sessionmgr104&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=mnh&AN=21702397). There has been an increase in drug abuse by the use of legal spice which is mixed with different chemicals such as JWH-018. JWH-018 was first developed in 1995 for research, by organic chemist John W. Huffman at Clemson University in South Carolina. (http://syntheticmarijuana.wordpress.com/). He created this chemical compound and tried to find cannabinoid receptors in the brain. The parts that THC in marijuana bond with to produce feelings of euphoria and research shows he was successful in these findings. (http://syntheticmarijuana.wordpress.com/). These chemicals do not show up in the system but result in having a long term effect on the body. According to Huffman, “it doesn’t hit the brain in the same way as marijuana, and that’s why it’s dangerous.” (http://hightimes.com/news/mmiller/7144). Legal spice is known all around the US and in some places it is legal. In other cities it is not, because of the effects it causes on the body. Many people were smoking legal spice when it was “legal” because of the fact that it didn’t show up in a drug test. It was…
In Canada, approximately 47,000 deaths that are related to substance abuse occur each year (Teen Challenge). Drug addiction is an immensely growing issue in our society, especially among our youth. Over the past few decades, the youth drug rates have decreased, but with the impending legalization of marijuana, the future leads to increasing rates. The Trudeau government has passed a bill to legalized marijuana in the early summer of 2018. Many people state that marijuana is not a drug, simply because it is not a “hard” drug. The risks of marijuana are like any drug, it will effect your mind, body and behaviour.…
Grinspoon, L. (2010). Whither medical marijuana. Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, 11(2), 75-82. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/910990414?accountid=458…
The drug generally isn't more harmful than alcohol or tobacco if used in moderation. Most doctors would agree that it's not very harmful if used in moderation. It's only when you abuse the drug that problems start to occur. But isn't abuse of almost any bad substance a problem? If you abuse alcohol, caffeine, cigarettes, or even pizza, health problems are sure to follow. Would you want the government limiting how much coffee you can drink or how much cheesecake you take in? Most doctors believe that marijuana is no more addictive that alcohol or tobacco.…
How would you feel if you had a degenerative disease and the one medicine that helped you the most was not allowed to be prescribed to you and was also illegal for you to obtain? That is the case for many Multiple Sclerosis(MS)patients today. MS affects patients in many different ways, but medical marijuana (Cannibis) can help releive the symptoms of MS in these patients, if only it was legal to prescribe.…
Legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes has been an extremely controversial topic, one that has it supporters who have long fought the opposition. Although marijuana has been used for thousand of years to provide relief from many health problems, it still remains an illegal drug in the United States. There are many doctors who support the effectiveness of the use of marijuana as treatment for many medical conditions. People who oppose the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes would claim that legalizing the drug would lead to abuse of the drug for recreational use. This is important claim for the opposition. However, after looking at all the information that has been gathered…
In America today, marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug. The name marijuana is a Mexican slang word, which became popular in the 1930’s, which refers to the medicinal parts of the cannabis plant. Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture that is created through drying the leaves and flowering tops of the cannabis plant. Some of the more popular street names are weed, pot, herb, grass, Mary Jane, boom, gangster, and chronic. One question that has haunted Americans for a long time is “Should the use of marijuana be legalized?” Some say, “Yes”, while others say, “No”. Owning marijuana was made a criminal offence in 1937 when Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act. Even with this new law, people continued to use the drug.…
If something does more good ,than bad ,then is it truly bad? This is the case with marijuana. The United States groups marijuana in with much harsher drugs such as heroin, cocaine, and other opiates which are proven to lead to death. The federal government fails to realize the benefits which marijuana provides. These benefits range from helping the medical field expand into cheaper and more beneficial solutions to helping solve financial issues for state and federal governments. This implementation would be unnerving however most states have already legalized marijuana and their results provide a great pathway for a full legalization. Medical marijuana should be legal because it has legitimate medical uses,…
As the Nation moves forward and advances Marijuana continues to take the nation by storm as 23 states have legalized the most commonly used illicit drug in the United States (NIDA). Regardless of political views marijuana has astonishing effects, specifically on young adults or teens. Marijuana, also known as weed, pot, herb, bud, Mary Jane, grass, MJ, chronic, ganja and more derives from the hemp plant Cannabis Sativa. Whether the plant is dried and smoked or mixed into an edible form the user attempts to attain the active chemical delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in order to get high. Through research many questions about the effect of the popular drug on teens may be answered including, trends in teenage marijuana use, the effect of marijuana…
Recently, the controversial debate over legalizing marijuana has become more relevant than ever before. In the states of Washington and Colorado marijuana is currently legal for recreational use. In Michigan the cities of Detroit, Flint and Grand Rapids have decriminalized the drug. Also, in the cities of Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti the penalties for marijuana are closely related to receiving a speeding ticket. I will be researching the legalization of marijuana in the United States. As I began to research this topic I realized just how uneducated many people are when it comes to marijuana. Cannabis, or marijuana, as it is more commonly referred…
Research has found that teenagers who used cigarettes were twelve times more likely to graduate to marijuana use. A similar study conducted by Denise Kandel (1992) revealed that use of marijuana affects dopamine levels in the brain in a similar way to nicotine. Cigarette smoking facilitates consumption of other substances. Smoking cigarettes initiate juveniles into the sensation of drug inhalation, which desensitizes them from the feeling of smoke clouding their lungs. This paper finds that marijuana pervades the life of a juvenile tobacco smoker. Teenagers who smoke cigarettes are six times more likely to try buying marijuana in one hour, and eighteen times more likely to report marijuana use among their friends. Among repeat juvenile marijuana smokers, sixty percent first attempted cigarettes. The papers findings indicate that a reduction in juvenile cigarette smoking can be effective in reducing the use of marijuana among teenagers.…
When I started my research I was initially interested in marijuana legalization and the debate between why or why not our country should legalize the substance all together. However, throughout my time researching valid points on why cannabis is illegal now and reasons why it shouldn’t be illegal, I found myself more drawn to the psychological studies of the substance. The certain psychological effects the drug has on certain people became very appealing to me, as I wanted to learn more and find out the reason marijuana effects some people in a psychologically negative way. The one thing that turned me on to further investigate the topic of the psychological effects of marijuana, was when…
