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    suffered from: digestive disorder, insomnia, seizures, gout, and poor memory. Researches have conducted that marijuana has the ability to treat and cure serious ailments including: AIDS, cancer, and neuropathic pain. Marijuana comes from a cannabis plant (Cannabis Sativa), which contains an active ingredient called delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol known as “THC.” The compound gives the feeling euphoria of being “high” which can also exhibit the properties for pain relief. One of THC’s benefits…

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    One of the generally talked about choices for the treatment of glaucoma is the smoking of pot, in light of the fact that smoking cannabis lowers the eye weight. Less frequently refreshing is the way that pot 's impact on eye weight just endures 3-4 hours, implying that to bring down the eye weight day and night it would need to be smoked 6-8 times each day…

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    Marijuana “It is an obscenity that we stigmatize so many young Americans with a criminal record for smoking marijuana. But not one major wall street executive has been prosecuted for the near collapse of our entire economy.” Says Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. So many young lives are disrupted or destroyed because they have sold or smoke a plant that has never killed anyone or even contributed to anyones death. I have researched the various pros and cons of Marijuana over the past year,…

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    receptors, located within different parts of the central nervous system (National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, 2008).” These receptors are known as CB1 and CB2 (National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre, 2008). Depending on the part of the brain the cannabinoids interact determines the effect they will have on the individual, with effects ranging from cognition to pain perception (National Cannabis Prevention and Information Centre,…

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    plant that has no chemical substance be illegal? Why is it that twenty-four states have already legalized it for medical purposes and recreational use? Cannabis, which is known by the name of Marijuana, is a natural herb that is used worldwide everyday by not only teenagers but also adults and the elderly. You might be thinking well what is cannabis exactly? According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse they have said Marijuana is a “basic extracts to treat a disease of symptom”. In other…

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    provided numerous uses for the colonists. Other countries had been aware of cannabis’ medical uses for centuries, but it was not until the late 1800’s that Americans began recognizing this aspect of the plant. In fact, there were no objections to the legality of cannabis until nearly the middle of the 1900s (“Marijuana History”). Following the Mexican Revolution, cannabis received the nickname “marijuana” and the idea of smoking it for recreational use was introduced to Americans. However, the…

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    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…

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    immigration from Mexico into states like Louisiana and Texas. They brought over their culture and customs as well as their native language. Of course cannabis was one of their customs, they used cannabis as a medication and relaxant. “Marijuana” was how the Mexican immigrants referred to the plant, while Americans were very familiar with “cannabis” being that it was present in almost every medicine available during this time. The media began to rant about how the Mexicans were disrupting the…

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    Washington is another great example of how much revenue can come from the legal sales of marijuana in a year. Washington sold more than two hundred and fifty million dollars’ worth of marijuana and of those sales sixty two million dollars of excess taxes were made, therefore dubbing the prediction of thirty million dollars in taxes. These numbers seemed promising to Organ and Alaska, as both the states are predicted to legalize weed in 2015. Although a facial year has not passed since marijuana…

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    “Cannabis is the single most versatile herbal remedy, and the most useful plant on Earth. No other single plant contains as wide a range of medically active herbal constituents” Dr. Ethan Russo. Marijuana is also the only “drug” that has never had any overdoses…

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