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    Why do people use Marijuana everyday? Marijuana has been utilized for medical, noetic, spiritual reasons, and recreation for thousands of years. Marijuana refers to the dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa, which contains the psychoactive chemical as well as other compounds. Marijuana is sometimes smoked in hand rolled cigarettes (joints) or in pipes or dihydrogen monoxide bongs. It is withal smoked in blunts- cigars that have been vacated of tobacco and…

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    policy for most of the world is prohibition. One of the greatest problems with drug prohibition is the lack of effectiveness. Despite the United States having some of the world’s strictest drug laws, even coining the over 40 years on War on Drugs, the use of illicit drugs has been increasing. Also, from 2001 to 2014 there was a 42 percent increase in the total number of deaths due to cocaine overdose. Heroin is even worse with having a 6-fold increase in the total number of deaths From 2001 to…

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    Cannabis is a plant. There are three different types of Cannabis plants. Cannabis indica, Cannabis sativa, and Cannabis ruderalis. The Cannabis plant has many uses for a lot of things. Most ancient cultures grow the plant to be used as herbal medicine, like in Asia around 500 BC. The history of the cannabis in America dates back to the early colonists, who grew it for textiles and rope. Political changes in the 1900s led to the illegality of Cannabis in most of the United States, though…

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    Are There Consequences of Legalizing Marijuana? As we follow the article “Legalizing Marijuana: Why Citizens Should Just Say No” by Charles D. Stimson. The author presents to the audience the bad side of the legalization of Marijuana. For instance, when compared to alcohol, marijuana is far more addictive. There is a correlation between marijuana users who would become cocaine users. According to a study, marijuana's smoke would damage lung, and with similar effects as cigarettes. Marijuana…

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    It’s Just a Plant Bro... “It’s not a drug, it’s a leaf” - Arnold Schwarzenegger being interview by GC magazines. Marijuana is shown to have many uses in history. The Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper. Hemp rope was widely used, recent discoveries have shown that the Easter Island heads were pulled with hemp rope and rolling logs. Marijuana also has many medical benefits with the major one being it reverses and destroys cancer’s effects. The United States should legalize…

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    Elliot Arensdorf Ms. Hinkle Speech October 23, 2014 Marijuana You’re thinking about moving to Colorado with your family to live a lifestyle that includes local (herbal) refreshments. But as your thinking about it you start to consider the things that won’t be good for your family. Yes you want to smoke a little but you don’t want to become one of those low life burnouts that don’t have a clue on what they are doing with their life. Marijuana isn’t addictive in the same sense as heroin, from…

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    There is common knowledge that drugs have a delirious and deleterious effect on the people that use them. Yet the voters across states have pushed to legalize one such drug, marijuana. To the pro-marijuana crowd, they feel like their needs to be more legal drugs because alcohol and nicotine products are not enough for them. This argument is nonsensical and could lead to further degradation of our society. One of the problems with legalizing the drug is that it breaks many United States and…

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    help of other countries and how are law enforcement will deal with it. In other countries they have ruled the use of medical use of cannabis,but to a limit.In 2009 Argentina’s Supreme court has ruled the legalization of cannabis in private home in small amounts. In Czech Republic, researchers found “that incriminating individuals for drug use did little to nothing to decrease the drug use rates and the availability of the illicit substances.” so seeing all of this america should take in…

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    actually found that they are other factors that influence the gateway aspect of marijuana. Factors such as family stability, social class, education quality, and ease of access are all stronger factors, which explain why marijuana users are more likely to use hard drugs. All of these casual theories, which actually don’t have concrete date to create a correlation, and the history of anti-marijuana policy in the United States, all contribute to the current policy today and this creates issues…

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    The two claims that supported the use of medicinal marijuana all showed great potential as cannabinoid being used therapeutically because the experiment that they conducted focused on one specific area, which in turn provided great detail and significance of its data and results. The unfortunate…

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