Legal and medical status of cannabis

remain divided between political, age, and ethnicity. Most younger people think it should be legalized, but when people get older the percentages get closer and closer, and eventually pass and older the person the more they think it should not be legal ("Section 2: Views of Marijuana – Legalization, Decriminalization, Concerns”). Marijuana is more socially accepted by younger groups of people, rather than the older people, but there are some health risk with marijuana that is not very…

love, takes me to paradise." This song teaches us about how cannabis can get us from a state of low to a state of high. The government forbids the usage of cannabis, but permits the usage of alcohol. On one side of the legal spectrum, nearly 88,000 people died from drunk driving every year. Including secondhand smoke from cigarettes, at least 480,000 people have died from smoking. No one has been reported an overdose death from cannabis. Despite the government allowing for the use of drugs,…

LoPinto Cannabis has been illegal for decades yet most would agree that the prohibition on cannabis has been ineffective. Cannabis is the third most widely used drug in America right behind alcohol and tobacco. It is estimated that cannabis has been used by over one hundred million Americans to date. It is also estimated that about twenty five million have tried it this year, while around fourteen million consume it on a daily basis. With all these people partaking in the consumption of…

marijuana availability will increase its recreational use, while others suggest that marijuana is already so broadly available that increasing its availability will undercut the black market without increasing use. There are also contrasting opinions on medical benefits or on the fact that might create addiction. Indeed, The issue of legalization of soft drugs, such as marijuana, is not easy to analyze, and its complex nature leads to logical fallacies, such as automatic rejection, biased…

Marijuana Legalization: Aye or Nay? Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States. Its uses can be for medicinal or recreational purposes. Twenty-three states have legalized medical marijuana, and only four states, Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, have legalized marijuana for medicinal and recreational purposes. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, in 2013, there were 19.8 million current users aged 12 or older. In other words, current…

legalization. In the past marijuana was used as medicine until the 1937 when a new tax fee led to end of its use. In 1972 marijuna was placed in schedule I of the controlled Substance Act , meaning it has a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States. Despite the fact that billions of dollars have been spent enforcing marijuana prohibition and millions of individuals arrested, “marijuana is still the most commonly used illicit drug in the…

The state best known for having legal marijuana is Colorado. The benefit of having marijuana legally grow in these two states is that economically it’s helping both these states. According to money.cnn.com "marijuana delivers $53 million dollars in tax revenue". Money is not the only thing that is big thing for Colorado. Marijuana is also bringing in tourists from not only in the United States but around the world because it quality is better than any the other legal states. Also people from…

pushed upon us. Recently, many states have begun the process of legalizing (thus making extremely accessible) yet another vice that many struggle with, marijuana. At this point there are currently 23 states with marijuana legal in some form and even for states where it is legal for recreational use. This country was founded on Christian values but it seems as the years progress we tend to stay further and further away from it. Many struggle with alcohol, which, in reality, is just poisoning our…

Change is not Always for the Best Many states in the past several years have begun to legalize medicinal, and even recreational, marijuana. These events have caused a lot of controversy among the states, and the public in general. The debate on the drug’s legalization is becoming more and more popular in today’s conversations, news articles, and publications. One author, Ethan A. Nadelman, wrote an article for the National Review magazine on this topic. In his article, Nadelman is trying to…

How would you feel if you got arrested for having your daily medicine? I 'm going to tell you the history of marijuana and when it became illegal to grow and use. I am also gonna tell you the medical benefits it has and why it should be legal for recreational use. Then I 'm going to tell you why people think marijuana should be illegal and why their argument is wrong. “In 1545 the Spanish brought marijuana to the New World. The English introduced it in Jamestown in 1611 where it became a…