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Source #1 Page 12 Overview of Marijuana Marijuana is actually only part of Cannabis sativa, the annual plant that contains enormous number and variety of chemical compounds. |
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Source #1 Page 12 Overview of Marijuana The common name for Cannabis sativa is an Indian hemp plant; the stalks and sterilized seeds are used for fiber for cloth, the dried leaves are for seed oil, vegetable oil, and soap. |
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Source #1 Page 13 Overview of Marijuana The term marijuana generally refers to the leaves and other crude plant material of C. sativa. |
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Source #1 Page 13 Why so Popular? Although the recreational use of marijuana is illegal and carries criminal penalties, marijuana holds a favored status as a popular drug. |
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Source #1 Page 15 Cannabinoids and More The cannabis sativa plant contains more than 60 chemically related compounds called cannabinoids and more than 400 are noncannabinoids. |
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Source #1 Page 18 The Downside THC increases heart rate and modulates blood pressure, and some individuals are at increased risk of a potentially serious cardiovascular event. |
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Source #1 Page 21 Is Marijuana Medicine? Researches have long recognized that cannabinoids posses anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities. |
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Source #1 Page 22 Is Marijuana Medicine? Patients have reported improvement because of the induced euphoria and they feeling-no-pain state of mind. |
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Source #1 Page 53 Use and Abuse Factors such as substance abuse, parental feelings, availability, exposure and religious beliefs can influence youths to use illicit drugs, including marijuana. |
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Source #1 Page 74 Marijuana and the Law In the early 1800s, marijuana was introduced as Western medicine for numerous aliments, and its use for therapeutic drug rapidly spread. |
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Source #1 Page 76 Marijuana and the Law Marijuana was classified along with heroin and LSD as a Schedule I drug, which identified the drug as having a high potential for abuse and no accepted medical use. |
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Source #1 Page 81 Marijuana and the Law Advocates for legalization argue that marijuana is a safe drug and that criminal penalties for personal use and possession should be reformed. |
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Source #1 Page 82 Marijuana and the Law Opponents of legalization argue that marijuana is not a safe drug and that decriminating personal use would trigger substantial increase in use, social, economic and health costs.. |
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Source #1 Page 84 Marijuana Medicinal or Therapeutic Uses Marijuana is a painkiller, antiemetic, muscle relaxant and appetite stimulant cannot be dismissed as a fringe medical practice. |
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Source #1 Page 84 Marijuana Medicinal or Therapeutic Uses Treating acute or chronic pain, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, weight loss with marijuana does have scientific merit. |
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Source #1 Page 105 Marijuana Medicinal or Therapeutic Uses Concerns of possible effects with long-term use include drug dependence and, development of psychosis or psychotic episodes. |
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Source #1 Page 106 Marijuana Medicinal or Therapeutic Uses Although long-term use is associated with increased risk of cerebo- and cardiovascular events (stroke, cardiac arrest etc) |
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Source #1 Page 108 Marijuana Medicinal or Therapeutic Uses Medical marijuana cannot be extrapolated to recreational use of marijuana b/c concentration of THC, dosage schedule and length of exposure. |
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Source #2 Page 7 Divided Opinions Young adults appear more likely to support legalization than their elders. |
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Source #2 Page 8 Shifting Views on Legalization Most campaign for legalization is consistent with the traditional American value of individual freedom. |
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Source #2 Page 9 Shifting View on Legalization Many critics contend that legalization, will encourage selfish behavior, social problems, drug use and disrupted families. |
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Source #2 Page 9 Shifting View on Legalization Many young adults believe that marijuana could be legalized, regulated and taxed like alcohol, providing much needed revenue. |
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Source #2 Page 9 Shifting Views on Legalization A person's position on legalization of marijuana depends on a variety of actors, including age , philosophical bent, and phase of life. |
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Source #2 Page 41 How Would Legalization Affect Society? Legalizing the drug could send the signal that it is safe, make it more readily obtainable and entice more people to try it. |
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Source #2 Page 41 How Would Legalization Affect Society? Legalization could actually help society by reducing the crime and violence associated with illegal drug trade. |
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Source #2 Page 41 How Would Legalization Affect Society? Marijuana is known to have short term effects on a person's perceptions and memory, as well as math skills, verbal expression etc.. |
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Source #2 Page 42 How Would Legalization Affect Society? Researchers found abnormalities in brain regions involved in memory, attention, language, decision-making, which include the ability to control, monitor and plan one's behavior. |
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Source #2 Page 42 How Would Legalization Affect Society? In addition, marijuana also affects a user's perception of time and space and ability to react quickly to changing circumstances. |
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Source #2 Page 43 How Would Legalization Affect Society? Studies have shown that heavy marijuana users experience many of the same respiratory problems as tobacco smokers, increasing the risk of lung infections. |
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Source #2 Page 43 How Would Legalization Affect Society? Numerous studies have shown a correlation between marijuana use and mental illnesses such as anxiety disorders, depressions and schizophrenia. |
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Source #2 Page 44 How Would Legalization Affect Society? Marijuana growers used cross-breeding techniques to produce strains with increasingly higher levels of THC (4%-10%) |
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Source #2 Page 45 How Would Legalization Affect Society? Long term marijuana abusers trying to quit report irritability, sleeplessness, decreased appetite, anxiety and drug craving. |
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Source #2 Page 47 Exaggerated Concerns? The risk of addiction to marijuana is slight, but certainly less than the risk o addiction to alcohol or cigarettes. |
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Source #2 Page 51 Legalization's Effects on Crime and Violence Because marijuana is currently illegal for recreational use, it can only be bought and sold on the black market. |
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Source #2 Page 51 Legalizations's Effects on Crime and Violence The situation creates inflated prices and allows violent gangs to reap huge profits by smuggling the drug into the United States. |
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Source #2 Page 51 Legalization's Effects on Crime and Violence Advocates argue that legalizing the drug would end the demand for illegal marijuana and thereby eliminate the violent marijuana trade. |
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Source #2 Page 53 An Enduring Debate Opponents insist that an increase in marijuana use, especially in young people, would in turn harm the physical and mental health of Americans. |
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Source #2 Page 53 An Enduring Debate Proponents insist that any increase in marijuana use would be small, the harms limited and the costs offset by the benefits to society of reduced drug-related violence. |
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Source #2 Page 55 Potential Economic Benefits They contend that legalization would allow government to tax the drug, thus generating much-needed revenue to offset budget deficits. |
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Source #2 Page 57 The False Promise of Economic Benefits Opponents argue that legalization the drug wouldn't result in huge tax revenues, the price would drop, resulting in less revenue in tax. |
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Source #2 Page 59 The False Promise of Economic Benefits In addition to failing to cut prison costs, legalization would do lessen the cost o the war on drugs. |
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Source #2 Page 59 Too Many Costs In addition, to the cost of regulation, critics maintain, legalization would saddle the government with social costs. |
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Source #2 Page 60 Too Many Costs Due to social costs it would produce, compared with the meager tax revenue it would generate, it would do little to help the economy. |
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Source #2 Page 59 The False Promise of Economic Benefits The market doesn't produce the levels of crime and violence associated with other drugs, so legalization would do little to cut the law-enforcement costs connected to the illegal drug trade. |
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Source #3 To Legalize Pot, Stop the Infighting Some strong medical marijuana supporters believe that recreational use diminishes the medicinal value of the plant. |
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Source #3 Is Marijuana as Safe as- or Safer than Alcohol People who use marijuana in combination with other drugs or alcohol also pose an increased crash risk, research suggests. |
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Source #3 Is Marijuana as Safe as- or Safer than Alcohol The rates of obesity are lower by roughly a third in people who smoke pot at least three times a week, compared with those who don't use marijuana at all. |
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Source #3 Is Marijuana as Safe as- or Safer than Alcohol The tar in joints contains a much higher concentration of the chemicals linked to lung cancer compared with tobacco tar. |
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Source #3 Is Marijuana as Safe as- or Safer than Alcohol Smoking marijuana deposits four times more tar in the lungs than smoking an equivalent amount of tobacco, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. |
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Source #3 Is Marijuana as Safe as- or Safer than Alcohol One study found marijuana users have a 4.8-fold increase in risk of a heart attack during the first hour after smoking because of the drug's effect on your heart rate. |
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Source #3 Marijuana is Safer than Alcohol As long as marijuana remains illegal, profits from sales go to criminals and drug cartels, and adults will continue to be punished for using a substance less harmful than currently legal drugs. |
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Source #3 Marijuana is Safer than Alcohol We can take marijuana away from criminals and cartels and put it in the hands of licensed businesses. |
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Source #3 Marijuana is Safer than Alcohol Businesses should be subject to sensible rules ranging from where and when they can operate and who is able to invest in them, to restrictions on advertising. |
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Source #3 Why I Changed my Mind About Weed Young, developing brains are likely more susceptible to harm from marijuana than adult brains. |
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Source #3 Your Medical Marijuana Questions Answered Medical marijuana could also be an important option for those who rely on painkillers, as painkiller overdose is the greatest preventable death in the United States. |
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Source #3 Colorado Visitors are Using Pot & Ending... Found increases in marijuana-related traffic deaths, hospital visits, school suspensions, lab explosions and pet poisonings (Increased 57%) |
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Source #3 Colorado Visitors are Using Pot & Ending... Usually inexperienced users may ingest an edible marijuana product and don't feel any effects, eat another, so users need to know the effect for ingested marijuana is delayed compared to smoked or inhaled marijuana. |
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Source #3 Weed Users Have Poorer Verbal Memory... People who smoked weed regularly as teenagers remembered fewer words as they entered middle age |
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Source #3 Weed Users Have Poorer Verbal Memory... Current marijuana use was associated with poorer verbal memory and processing speed, and lifetime exposure to marijuana was associated with worse performance in all three areas of cognitive function. |
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Source #3 Weed Users Have Poorer Verbal Memory... People who used marijuana frequently over several decades had poorer cognitive function than those who did not participate in regular use. |
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Source #3 Weed Users Have Poorer Verbal Memory... It is becoming easier for adolescents to participate in persistent, daily use of marijuana. |
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Source #3 Weed Users Have Poorer Verbal Memory... This change is making marijuana more readily accessible and could possibly impact the increase of marijuana use in the United States. |
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Source #4 Should Medical Marijuana be Legal? Marijuana use starts early, between 12 and 17 years old, usually because of peer pressure or curiosity, kids will try it. |
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Source #4 Should Medical Marijuana be Legal? Federal drug agents can prosecute people who take marijuana to relieve pain and disease. |
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Source #4 Should Medical Marijuana be Legal? Cancer or AIDS receive treatments that often leave them suffering miserable side effects -- persistent nausea, vomiting and debilitating pain. |
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Source #4 Should Medical Marijuana be Legal? There's a chemical in the plant that alters the mind, called THC for short; it acts on several areas of the brain involved with memory, concentration, perception and movement. |
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Source #4 Should Medical Marijuana be Legal? Marijuana can cause hallucinations, impaired memory, disorientation and delusions. |
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Source #4 Should Medical Marijuana be Legal? Few members of Congress would be willing to vote for a bill that would allow pot smoking, even for the terminally ill. |
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Source #4 Should Medical Marijuana be Legal? The Supreme Court and the Congress are worried that drug traffickers would take advantage and acquire phony prescriptions to sell to healthy people, further spreading the use of marijuana. |
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Source #5 Page 76 Effects of Chronic Marijuana Consumption The effect of a single dose of the drug leads to impairment, consistent use would lead to comparable deficits, even after intoxication has worn off. |
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Source #5 Page 77 Effects of Chronic Marijuana Consumption In chronic users, some studies report lower test scores or deviant brain waves in those who smoke daily for extended periods. |
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Source #5 Page 144 Mental Illness |
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Source #5 Page 145 Anxiety Disorders Marijuana seems an unlikely cause of any clinical anxiety or depressive disorder. |
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Source #5 Page 145 Anxiety Disorders People who are prone to panic or who find changes in consciousness disturbing should avoid cannabis and other psychoactive drugs. |
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Source #5 Page 145 Psychotic Disorders Psychotic disorders typically include odd thoughts, auditory hallucinations, and inappropriate emotions. |
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