Well, one major concern about marijuana is its possible effects on young people as they grow up. Research shows that the earlier people start using drugs, the more likely they are to go on to experiment with other drugs. In most cases this is true but from experimenting with it, it really only leads you into the fridge or stuck on the couch, the worst thing that happens is you fall asleep for a long time because your body is so relaxed [feels so good.] When most young teens-adults start to use marijuana they begin to lag [slowly stop] on their daily functions such as: homework, chores and activities. With smoking pot at a young age can put a mental block on your growing brain. Which means it could effect a person is thinking, comprehension, verbal and mathematical skills.…
For hundreds of years, marijuana has been used for medical and therapeutic purposes ... Their health benefits have been consistently demonstrated, however, the negative connotation that is still making this a great debate. Resorting to the use of marijuana to combat certain medical conditions is an issue that divides…
Legalizing Marijuana: An Economic Review Currently, there are over thirty states and countries that have legalized marijuana either domestically or medically. Legalizing marijuana has many positive and negative effects on the economy. Legalization of the substance can result in significant government savings and revenues, pay for community improvements, and reduce crime.…
Marijuana is such a controversial subject to speak upon because there are so many different types of views and opinions. “The Loud Party”, in which I represent wants to legalize marijuana uses whether it is for recreational purposes, medical purposes, religion purposes, spiritual purposes, cooking and/or baking purposes etc. We believe that ever individual should be able to do whatever they want. No one should have control over what another person wants to do with himself or herself. Marijuana has always been portrayed as a drug that is super bad for an individual, as well as a gateway drug for other drug uses, abuses, and misuses such as, cocaine, heroin, prescription pills, molly, ecstasy, crack, DMT, LSD, PCP, and much more.…
Most countries have passed laws to ban marijuana but marijuana legalization has been enacted in some countries across the world as Canada will do. Although today, critics insist that marijuana can cause addiction, overdose, and others problems, many people support that legalizing cannabis can bring about positive effects for people who want to feel relaxed with marijuana instead of hard drugs like heroin and on education to a teenager. Also, marijuana legalization can make people more access to a lower price of marijuana. Some People said that marijuana legalization could cause serious problems. For example, Rothstein (Sep 9, 2016) claims “The heroin epidemic was caused by the legalization of marijuana.”…
Legalization of Marijuana (Rough Draft) For the past decade one of the biggest debates that has seemed to get everyone taking sides it the idea of the legalization of marijuana. Marijuana is not something new to the American government, it has been an ongoing battle to control the seemingly harmless plant that the government deemed illegal with no justification other than we still do not know enough about the plant. It is only due to recent theories of marijuana ability to be used as a useful medicine that people have began to rise up and ask why we have been denied access to plant that has no proven health risks. This movement is not moving slowly either with twenty-three states already legalizing medical marijuana with four of them legalizing…
Many believe that this drug is a terrible drug that is corrupting all our youth. Marijuana does produce a dependency, but unlike many other substances it does not produce a desperation or craving. It also does not produce violent reactions like amphetamines or narcotics. This drug is used by many of our youth, but it does not produce any severe consequences. Many news articles have been covering stories about driving under the influence of marijuana making it seem like it is as prevalent as drunk driving.…
It’s often been said that change is the only constant and this hold true in our societal norms and views. Social change is a meaning full, observable, difference in society patterns, process, or ideologies. Social change is universal, as no society or culture has ever remained the same throughout history. Today, this societal change can be seen through the country as our views and laws evolve around the use of marijuana. In 1937 marijuana was made illegal at a federal level but starting 1996 some states have legalized marijuana for medical use only.…
Illegal indoor cultivation of marijuana is substantially increasing in the nation. This leads to a negative impact on the environment in many ways. Marijuana cultivators are forced to illegally work in discreet areas of national forests in order to hide their cultivation, and the lack of regulation has increased carelessness in the way the crop is grown, therefore damaging the environment. Illegal growers are illegally colonizing remote forests and moving pesticides, waster and irrigation tubes contributing to toxic menace. If marijuana was legal, cultivators would grow the crop in less profound growth areas and abide to the regulations that are set for them.…
Debate has encompassed the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes for decades. Some have argued legalizing marijuana poses a threat to the public by affecting crime rates. In recent years, many U.S. states have legalized marijuana for medical purposes, raising a social interest on the impact of marijuana legalization and crime rates. Relying on U.S. state Part 1 offense data from 1990 through 2006 , one study analyzed the effect of legalizing medical marijuana on crime, specifically evaluating any association between state medical marijuana legalization and state crime rates for all Part I offenses collected by the FBI.…
I feel that a lot of drugs have had a huge impact on the world but I feel that heroin and marijuana which is also known as cannabis has had the biggest impact. Now the reason I feel this way is because if we take the time to talk to the young kids of today between the ages of 14 to 20 a lot of them are now smoking marijuana. There are also a lot of people that are adults that have now turned to using heroin once again and if anyone knows anything about drugs heroin was the biggest drug along with marijuana back in the 1960’s to the 1990’s. Although, these two drugs have always been the first choice of a lot of people there have been other drugs that have been introduced to the world. Furthermore, people in society to have made these two drugs…
Marijuana has, compared to other both legal and illegal drugs, low effects on the human body. “No death from marijuana overdose has ever been reported and the ill effects of alcohol, nicotine, and prescription painkillers (...) vastly overweight those of marijuana” ( Ingraham, Janet. “Lee, Martin A. Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana--Medical, Recreational, and Scientific”). Research has also shown that marijuana “ use does not lead to physical dependence, and there are no withdrawal symptoms when the drug is not discontinued” (“drug use” Britannica School. Encyclopaedia Britannica).…
Every year, tax payers in the United States spend billions of their precious dollars on marijuana related arrests and punishments. On a daily basis, an outrageous amount of money for simple possession, of an arguable harmless substance, continues to multiply. Are taxpayer dollars being wasted? Is law enforcement focused on what is truly important for our communities? Why are so many arrests happening because of a substance that is legal the next state over?…
Legalize Marijuana One of the greatest debates across this country right now is the topic of whether or not marijuana should be legalized. Marijuana is currently legal in some forms in 23 different states. The majority of those states have legalized marijuana strictly for medicinal reasons, while in only four of those states is recreational use of marijuana legal. Marijuana, also known as cannabis, is commonly perceived as unattractive and useless to most Americans. They see it as addictive and a gate-way drug.…
What does marijuana cause? and how it spread in the past years?. "Marijuana is the most common illicit re rational drug used in the United States". "As many as 77% of illicit drug users are current users of marijuana”. Marijuana has spread a lot and peoples who takes it between 12-25 ages.…