Victimless crime

First, marijuana has incredible therapeutical uses. It can relieve pain. It can be used to treat a variety of illnesses including cancer, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, Alzheimer’s disease, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), epilepsy, Crohn’s Disease, and glaucoma. It can also replace narcotic painkillers, which is very harmful to our body. (10 Facts About Marijuana). Marijuana effectively treats severe seizure disorders. According to Fox31 Denver, there is a case study of a six-year-old girl…

“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.” Bob Marley said this because he believed that Marijuana should not be looked down upon, because he believes it unites one with himself and with others. It looks like Marley 's dream became a reality as proposition 64 has passed, which means that Marijuana is legal now. To consume it, one has to be at least twenty one, and the limit is an ounce. Since the proposition passes, that means the majority of people agreed with it. Obviously…

Active Euthanasia, Legal Murder Recently, the question on whether the state of California should legalize euthanasia, intentionally ending a life to prevent pain and suffering, arises. On October 5, 2015, governor Jerry Brown of California put an end to that question by signing into law the End of Life Option Act. The law allows “terminally ill people to be prescribed the drugs that will end their life” (All things considered). It is written: “provide that nothing in its provisions is to be…

also referred to as weed, looking for a temporary high to get away from life constantly beating an individual down. Marijuana is one of the most widely used illegal drugs and constantly starts heated debates. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime states that, “in 2014 some 3.8% of the human population used cannabis.” Many people in this generation participate in the smoking and selling of marijuana, regardless of its legal status in their state. People that…

is made out of the dried flowers and leaves from the hemp plant. Since the 1600s, many states have been torn between the idea of marijuana being just a plant and harmless, and marijuana being a drug that causes substance abuse and is linked to many crimes. Some of the first federal laws against drugs were 1952 Boggs Act and 1956 Narcotics Acts which enforced that if a person was caught with marijuana in their possession they could be sentenced for a minimum of 2 – 10 years and a fine of $20,000.…

In light of the unprecedented election on November 8, the year of our lord 2016, that elected Donald Trump as our next president, California residents woke up with a massive what the heck happened headache. How could this be? How did America afford to elect a temperamentally unfit, manifestly unqualified candidate to the White House? The answer is many, but yet no one knows why or how it happen. Subsequently, us Californians can turn our sorrows and despair over the fate and uncertainty of…

The legalization of cannabis for medicinal use would benefit patients and the economy in more ways than one. Cannabis research provided by many of the authors discussed in this research paper that the use of cannabis is not habit forming, and is less harmful than many man-made prescription drugs such as oxycodone. If cannabis were legalized across the world, many patients whom are suffering from different types of cancers, multiple sclerosis, and sleep insomnia would have some relief of those…

thanked me for my care at the end” (Siegel 821). In other words, Siegel describes the reaction of the family and friends’ reaction to the patient’s death, which might be considered as satisfying the patient’s decision. In addition, in the essay, “A Crime of Compassion”, by Barbara Huttmann, she expresses the way Mac felt while bathing him asking her to be merciful and let him go (Huttmann 817). In other words, Huttmann felt that she was doing the morally justified thing for Mac by injecting the…

Imagine a child in need of an organ transplant, but he’s being forced to wait months, maybe even years, to perhaps not even receive the transplant he is waiting for. It is a depressing thought and when one thinks about this situation, there is no way for them to argue against finding a way to save that child. Currently, one of the main ideas that could be used to save people in situations like this is legalizing the sale of organs. Though everyone would want that child to live a happy life,…

Marijuana is a word that usually comes with a negative implication. Texas is one of the most conservatives states out there and has strongly been against the legalization of marijuana for years. I don 't participate in the use of marijuana, but with that said I don 't see the predicament with marijuana. The year is 2015, circumstances are changing, and we as a state should adapt and embrace these changes. Texas should legalize marijuana and here 's why. Legalizing marijuana should be permitted…