Sanjay Gupta

What is the Truth of Marijuana “There are a lot of unanswered questions about marijuana—questions about its effect on the brain, and on young people—and we think legislators would be wise to look at these questions as they consider the legalization of marijuana.” This was the answer from Chris Thorne, the vice president of communications, to the question of marijuana legalization. Colorado and Washington together decriminalized and legalized cannabis by popular vote in 2012. After that,…

According to Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN and practicing neurosurgeon, "you are 100 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to have a serious allergic reaction to the vaccine that protects you against measles." Ellen Clayton, MD, JD, Professor…

average, as much as 600,000 Americans are arrested for possession of marijuana ever year. Unlike other hard drugs such as cocaine or heroin, marijuana is not a drug that is easily addictive and has no damaging side effects. In an interview with CNN, Sanjay…

According to Sanjay Gupta, Chief Medical Correspondent for CNN and practicing neurosurgeon, “you are 100 times more likely to be struck by lightning than to have a serious allergic reaction to a vaccine that protects you against measles.” Combination vaccines, like MMR…

Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized Looking at the news paints a clear picture of marijuana: addictive, dangerous, and a plague to society. Where exactly do these stigmas come from? Marijuana, also known as weed or cannabis, is a psychoactive drug used for medical and recreational purposes. Medical purposes include treating seizures, chronic pain, and Crohn’s disease. Recreational usage is done for the purpose of getting high: an altered state of conscious perception. Getting high does have its…

Running head: Legalizing Marijuana Legalizing Marijuana Zack Summers Nashville State Community College Author Note This paper was prepared for Psychology 1030,taught by Professor Maggie Wharton, Fall 2014 Legalizing Marijuana Practical uses for marijuana, also known as hemp and cannabis, can be traced back as far as 2700 B.C. in China. Additionally, in the world’s oldest pharmacopoeia, also from China, drug recipes for more than 100 ailments including, gout, rheumatism, malaria,…

The legalization of marijuana, one of the earth most beneficial plants, can help solve many problems in the U.S.A. Marijuana has a vast variety of different uses and benefits in today's 21st-century society but remains illegal under the federal law placed by the U.S government. Twenty-nine states have decriminalized cannabis for medical use in past years but is not recognized by the federal government. But due to how the U.S works federal law does not recognize state laws. The legalization of…

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…

inside the eye, according to the National Eye Institute: "Studies in the early 1970s showed that marijuana, when smoked, lowered intraocular pressure (IOP) in people with normal pressure and those with glaucoma." In a documentary called “Weed,” Sanjay Gupta interviewed the Figi family, who treated their 5-year-old daughter using a medical marijuana strain high in cannabidiol and low in THC. She has Dravet Syndrome and the marijuana decreased her seizures from 300 a week to just one every seven…

Stop the Pot Marijuana is a greenish gray mixture of dried cut leaves and flowers Cannabis sativa or also known as the hemp plant. On Foundations for A Drug-Free World states that in the United States today over 94 million people have admitted to at least smoking pot once in their lifetime. DrugWarFacts.com reports that 39.9% of kids from freshman to senior have used or is currently using marijuana. Marijuana has been listed by many different sites like National Institute on Drug Abuse as the…