The United States of America has faced the issue of marijuana use since its inception and has struggled over the legality, regulation, and enforcement of this controversial drug. Marijuana, commonly known as cannabis or weed, is a psychoactive drug that can be entered into the body through forms of digestion or smoking and can alter one’s mental state. Marijuana has maintained its existence for over two thousand years, originating from China and integrating its way throughout the early world for recreational purposes. Even in the 17th century, medical patents contained marijuana and continued to be an acceptable form of medication until the 1940 's .Recent research has also contributed to the debate in the medical and health benefits that
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Several states have enjoyed the effusive increase of revenue as a result of legalizing and taxing marijuana, to which can be used for other government-funded projects. According to The Associated Press,The marijuana business has shattered expectations by almost doubling Washington state’s original tax revenue forecast. At a projected 36 million, local sales and other taxes have attributed more than 70 million dollars (Ferner). The Washington school system has floundered to generate enough funds to keep schools in minimal conditions; legalizing marijuana provides a panacea to a malnourished sector that state may encounter. Auxiliary money can be utilized to benefit public services instead of punishing citizens for using narcotics. Furthermore, Colorado is turning the 73.5 million generated from cannabis, “for new school construction and drug treatment and prevention programs. The consumer information website NerdWallet concluded that if marijuana were legal nationwide, states could collect about …show more content…
A recent 2014 study has linked positive medical qualities in, “tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, may help to slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, which causes memory loss... low doses of the compound can inhibit the accumulation of proteins thought to cause Alzheimer’s” (McLeod). Although the cure to Alzheimer 's is years away from the ambitious grasps of scientist, cannabis can slow the onset of it. Marijuana can provide an escape, a safe haven, a release, a moment of happiness that has minor repercussions. The books of medical history turn up with blank pages when searched for names of people that have died from an overdose of marijuana. Supported by the State of California, Dr. Abrams conducted trials of marijuana smoking in H.I.V patients that experience nerve pain. The study concluded that cannabis had palliated pain in the studied patients (Gardiner). The myth that marijuana is solely used by nonconforming teens trying to make a statement is now counteracted with medical trials and results. Marijuana can reduce pain and stress in its patients and is not as malign as other legal substances such as alcohol or prescribed pain killers. Yet medicinal marijuana laws vary from state to state and are most commonly used to treat diagnosed conditions such
Several states have enjoyed the effusive increase of revenue as a result of legalizing and taxing marijuana, to which can be used for other government-funded projects. According to The Associated Press,The marijuana business has shattered expectations by almost doubling Washington state’s original tax revenue forecast. At a projected 36 million, local sales and other taxes have attributed more than 70 million dollars (Ferner). The Washington school system has floundered to generate enough funds to keep schools in minimal conditions; legalizing marijuana provides a panacea to a malnourished sector that state may encounter. Auxiliary money can be utilized to benefit public services instead of punishing citizens for using narcotics. Furthermore, Colorado is turning the 73.5 million generated from cannabis, “for new school construction and drug treatment and prevention programs. The consumer information website NerdWallet concluded that if marijuana were legal nationwide, states could collect about …show more content…
A recent 2014 study has linked positive medical qualities in, “tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive ingredient in marijuana, may help to slow or halt the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, which causes memory loss... low doses of the compound can inhibit the accumulation of proteins thought to cause Alzheimer’s” (McLeod). Although the cure to Alzheimer 's is years away from the ambitious grasps of scientist, cannabis can slow the onset of it. Marijuana can provide an escape, a safe haven, a release, a moment of happiness that has minor repercussions. The books of medical history turn up with blank pages when searched for names of people that have died from an overdose of marijuana. Supported by the State of California, Dr. Abrams conducted trials of marijuana smoking in H.I.V patients that experience nerve pain. The study concluded that cannabis had palliated pain in the studied patients (Gardiner). The myth that marijuana is solely used by nonconforming teens trying to make a statement is now counteracted with medical trials and results. Marijuana can reduce pain and stress in its patients and is not as malign as other legal substances such as alcohol or prescribed pain killers. Yet medicinal marijuana laws vary from state to state and are most commonly used to treat diagnosed conditions such