where ever they want and if they want too. Many statements say that love is love and it should not be classified by sex of the spouses on if they are able to commit themselves to each other as male and female spouses do. There are 19 states who allow same sex marriage and 37 who recognize it. What matters is that we are making moves to even make gay marriages legal but anyone having love for each other should be able to have a ceremony to express their love for one another without question. Also…
Legalizing Marijuana Bill Hicks once said, “Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit…unnatural?”(Good-reads). So why is marijuana illegal if it is a crop that naturally grows on Earth? Although there is much skepticism about the legalization of marijuana, countries and states that have already legalized it are shutting down these concerns. Marijuana legalization is beneficial for economic growth because of personal, medicinal, and industrial use. Marijuana first spread…
States Government has had their focus on Marijuana, believing it may be a gateway drug to other illicit drugs, licit drugs, and alcohol. Many opponents are concerned now that marijuana is legal for recreational use in 4 states, and medical marijuana is legal in 23 states. In 14 states as of 2015 have changed policies to decriminalize marijuana, giving lesser charges to those that are in possession. Many fear that more crime may be committed due to legal recreational use as well as many concerns…
Cannabis, better known as the slang term marijuana, has been used for medicinal and many industrial uses for over thousand years. But in nineteen thirty-seven, The United States had made cannabis illegal with the passing of the Marijuana Law of Nineteen Thirty-Seven. This law had officially made possession, use, or sale of cannabis a crime. But why exactly was it criminalized? And what exactly is cannabis? (Cannabis, A, Web; How, Did, Web; Block, Bruce, Web) Cannabis is a dioecious and…
Research Paper Assignment Why the use of marijuana should be legal in the U.S. Stephen Elliott For over 80 years marijuana has been portrayed as a dangerous drug which in turn has cost the United States around $7 Billion annually. Marijuana Timeline (n.d.). Although marijuana is categorized as a schedule I drug grouped with drugs such as heroin, LSD, ecstasy, methaqualone, and peyote it still has many practical uses in today’s society. DEA / Drug Scheduling. (n.d.). If the…
Marijuana otherwise known as mary jane or just weed, is a misunderstood drug that really it’s as bad as we’re taught to believe. Actually the drug does more good than bad, believe it or not. Marijuana was discovered somewhere around the 1900s. First, here’s the bad part. Millions of people use the drug, 6.1 million people per month.So if the boys upstairs decided to legalize marijuana, those 6.1 million people would have to pay taxes for using the drug. “The drug itself is not as intoxicating…
The use of Marijuana medically has been in controversy for years. The question behind it is what is marijuana actually and why it is in the controversy and why people talk about it? Marijuana—also called weed, herb, pot, grass, bud, ganja, Mary Jane, and a vast number of other slang terms—is a greenish-gray mixture of the dried, shredded leaves and flowers of Cannabis sativa—the hemp plant (1). It has been in the picture even during 2900BC when the Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi, whom the Chinese…
Marijuana prohibition has been an utter failure in the U.S. Roughly 266 million people admit to smoking marijuana at least once a year, and around 8.4 million smoke it every day. The question on whether recreational marijuana should be legalized has been become the center of discussion more frequently in the past few years, as people are beginning to realize the beneficial effects marijuana can really have. With legalizing marijuana comes a safer alternative to other drugs and alcohol, while…
article from the New York Times, “Marijuana: Breaking Down the Buzz” it was discovered in the 1920’s that tobacco cigarettes cause cancer. However, it wasn’t until the 1960’s that smoking levels began to drop. Despite overwhelming evidence, it took 40 years for people to accept the dangers of inhaling cigarette smoke, but millions still smoke today! Now history is repeating itself with marijuana. New scientific evidence shows the health risks of smoking marijuana, including brain and lung…
Some people believe we should legalize marijuana for medical reasons. Do you? I don’t. Legalizing marijuana is a bad idea because, it creates many social/public problems, the ingredients are toxic, and the risks are high. Many people are tormented by cancer caused by smoking like my grandpa. Most people regret smoking marijuana because of all the problems it causes. Marijuana makes getting cancer 200% more likely (Miranda Hitti). My grandfather died from cancer caused by smoking. I don’t…