Legality of cannabis by country

Kabaji English 100 Academic Essay 30 July 2017 Guiding The Inevitable For thousands of years, human beings used cannabis for its nutritional value in its seeds, ability to be converted into oil for cooking and its capability to be used for housing insulation. It was also customarily utilized as a means to remove toxins and contamination from soil and water. Although the cannabis plant, more commonly known as hemp or marijuana, can now be used as alternative textiles, paper, or a manner of…

What is Marijuana? Marijuana is dried leaves and flowers of a Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica plant which is also known as pot, dope or weed. Marijuana is responsible for the mind altering effect on the brain. It is a chemical that distorts how the mind sees the world. How is Marijuana used? It is used many different ways, some people smoke weed in joint paper, glass pipes, bongs, and cigars formally known as blunts. Marijuana can also be cooked into edibles like candy, cookies, and brownies…

Perla Nunez Alvarez Advance Language Arts November 17, 2017 Tobacco Should be Illegal Tobacco is an agricultural plant that has been around for over thousands of years and is still widely used to this day. It is also classified as a stimulant drug that makes the central nervous system work faster than usual. In order to deny the spread of tobacco usage, scientists have been warning the public about the dangers of using the stimulant drug. The reason for them to do so is, because in The United…

encouraged, studies will produce results that can cure hundred more diseases and million more lives. It may bring unhappiness to some right now, but it the long-run, more families and friends can be saved. Not only Indians but more people from other countries can be saved. There is smaller amount of pain and greater amount of happiness. It is in this totality of happiness measured that we can say if an act is right. Mill then would say that the court’s decision was…

The opioid epidemic has been an issue that the United States has struggled with since the early 1900’s. Opioids are drugs commonly used in medical practice to relieve pain. Before the knowledge we have currently on opioids, opioids were an essential in curing a range of symptoms; from relieving pain to being used as cough suppressants. Today, the war on opioids is at an all time high. In 2014, 14 thousand people died from an opioid overdose. In CNN’s article, Opioid History: From “wonder drug”…

essay is trying to answer these questions by analyzing three articles on the topic of cannabis. Medical marijuana is one of the most controversial topics in today’s political and medical world. Though marijuana is useful in the symptomatic treatment of some chronic diseases, its negative impacts on human body and mind is unavoidable. In a global perspective some countries have legalized medicinal use of cannabis and categorized it as controlled substance. Similarly almost half of the…

“Contrary to what we’ve all been mis-taught, marijuana is not a harmful drug, it is a drug remarkable free of toxicity providing it’s used intelligently.” (Dr. Lester Grinspoon, Harvard Medical School). Marijuana known as the gateway drug is inaccurately portrayed by society. It has received a bad reputation through the years of misuse and abuse. However, many studies have proven the health benefits of marijuana. Medical marijuana should be legalized because the benefits outweigh the risks, it’s…

I honestly don’t know why it took me so long to find two things to compare and contrast, I had many ideas but they were just irrelevant, at least to me. I’m sure no one wants to read about Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump, Soccer vs Football, IPhone vs Samsung and many more irrelevant topics. So, I chose a topic that I believe is interesting and relevant in this day in my life. It has been debated for decades and now the millennials are finally in big enough numbers to put the legalization of…

might happen if it is legalized? Who will be affected by the legalization? How will it affect the country as a whole? As these questions have been discussed, another more pressing question has surfaced: What will be the long- and short-term effects of users of this drug? In this essay, I will explain why marijuana should be legalized, what impacts legalization may have, and how it could improve our country. Prohibiting marijuana has more costs…

While there is no way to study the levels of “laziness” in a society, we can look at the employment rates before recreational cannabis legalization and after. Colorado has one of the fastest growing economies in America and has a 6-year long record low of unemployment (DPA, Drug Policy Alliance). Between two dispensaries alone, 280 jobs were created and they produced $33 million…