Marijuana Essay

When considering ergogenic aids, marijuana is not typically the first supplement that comes to mind, however there are several performance enhancing benefits to cannabis use. Though cannabis use is associated with reduced coordination and lack of spatial perception, many athletes report many different performance enhancing effects. Goaltenders, for example, may find that cannabis use increases their quality of vision. Cannabis is also known to decrease anxiety, which could prove helpful in…

Rocky Mountain sun. He had converted his drywall scaffolding to a mobile grow station in a sudden yet proud declaration of a possible career change. “Is this a mid-life crisis?” I worried. I always believed that my Dad did not have any interest in marijuana. Looking back, it was obvious he was interested. My Dad was a man who spent his post-vietnam days in San Francisco, endlessly listened to Santana, and fondly told the story of the Doobie Brother’s was his first Red Rocks show. All the…

Medical marijuana is a big debate in the United States on whether it should be legalized for medical purposes. There are certain states that have already passed the law and made it possible for people who have a chronic disease to get their medication, if the patient is in a state that does not have medical marijuana then the patient does not have the right to consume the drug and they could actually face legal charges. When consuming medical marijuana it is different than when people consume…

how do you define what happiness is. Marijuana can simply make you find what is happiness with all the different kinds of things it can help you with. So you have heard the question “Should marijuana be legalized or stay illegal” many times already. This won’t be the last time you will hear it either. As it is illegal in most areas around the world, the places that have legalized marijuana has had a dramatic economic growth. People complain as to why marijuana should stay illegal, but they list…

Cannabis plant, or commonly known as marijuana, has swept the globe as one of the oldest agricultural plants. Stemming from Eastern Asia, using exportation of goods and exploration as a tool to travel the world, it has left roots scattered across every continent (excluding Antarctica). Its use has varied from helping to reach a state of euphoria, to being used in textiles, which has helped countries such as China and Turkestan to develop as a nation. Marijuana is known as being the world’s most…

Objectives and Central Hypothesis The objective of this study it to: Identify the different races that use marijuana in high school. Identify age groups that use marijuana. Identify the grade levels that use marijuana. Identify gender. And most importantly apply the social learning theory and testing it in terms of usage of marijuana. These objectives will be answered by using a survey that can provide the answers to these objectives. My hypothesis to be tested includes the following H1: I…

research about the benefits of medical marijuana. Gupta explains why he believes marijuana is useful and the research that brought him to this conclusion. Gupta effectively convinces his audience that medical marijuana is beneficial. Persuading his audience using a combination of his credibility as both a doctor and television personality, specific evidence that makes marijuana use seem like the logical choice, and an emotional appeal through stories of marijuana helping young children and the…

Whether or not marijuana should be legal has caused controversy in the United States. In her article “The Truth About Marijuana: Health Risks Trivialized” Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum focuses on the negative effects of this narcotic. On the opposite side of the argument is the Editorial Board of The New York Times. In their article, “Repeal Prohibition, Again” they give the economic reasons for legalizing marijuana. Although both The Editorial Board of The New York Times and Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum…

The Legalization of Cannabis As we know, the war on drugs is never ending. With all the prohibition laws effecting our entire country, drugs like cocaine and heroin show a threat to our society because they’re dangerous. It has been proven that marijuana is less dangerous than legal drugs like tobacco and alcohol yet it is still prohibited. Slowly we are moving into Legalization, the question is how far? According to the article I was reading “An End to Prohibition” by Ethan Nadelmann, some…

Several comprehensive reports have been on marijuana and its effects have appeared in the past century. One of the earliest being the Indian Hemp Drugs Commission Report released in 1984. The committee preparing the report included four British and three Indian commissioners. A second report was the report by the Panama Canal Zone Military Investigation, 1993, which spanned the years 1916-1929. A Third and one of the most widely known investigations, was the LaGuardia Commission report…