or not marijuana should be legal or not. The most recent drug survey, conducted in March 2015, “finds that a slim majority (53%) of Americans say Marijuana should be made legal, compared with 44% who want it to be illegal”, and the opinions have changed drastically since 1969, when only 12% favored legalizing marijuana use. Marijuana is a plant that people use for various things, including medicinal use, recreational use, and personal use. Although most people believe marijuana is a dangerous drug
In today's society medicinal or not, marijuana is portrayed as a dangerous drug comparable to heroin and cocaine. Marijuana is more commonly used by teenagers but the age consumption varies. The Legalization of Medicinal Marijuana nationally not only would it help everyone perceive it’s true applications, but to prove that marijuana is just more than a drug, it’s a medicine. Legalized, the awareness of medicinal marijuana benefits would be apprehended better. A friend of mine named Chris has suffered
think smoking marijuana is cool. They might try it without knowing what it is or what affects is has on you. Once someone smokes it for the first time, they might keep doing it again and again and they could get hooked on it for life. People who use marijuana usually never use any other type of illegal drugs, but more than seven thousand five hundred people get arrested for using marijuana every year. There is a wide variety of marijuana, but they are all based off of two marijuana plants, Indica
hear about marijuana all the time, from the morning news to the newspapers you read during the day. Everywhere you look there is something about marijuana, someone being arrested with it, or stories about how it should be legal. Marijuana is a big part of today world where you want it to or not, it is everywhere. In the news a person can hear about the war on drugs that was started back in the1970’s by President Nixon and although it is a war on all illegal drugs the major one is marijuana. It is the
Marijuana has earned itself a terrible name over the years. This plant has a long history with humans, from early medical uses to spiritual and even recreational use. In recent years, many states have seen the legalization of marijuana for medical uses. Most large scale experiments have been hindered because of the difficulty of getting experiments involving marijuana approved. Despite this roadblock for the research of marijuana, surveys and observations of the medical use of marijuana show that
Marijuana use is much safer than the consumption of alcohol or the use of tobacco. Both alcohol and tobacco are the most deadly and addictive drugs, as well as the most used and abused, compared to marijuana. With marijuana, the pros outweigh the cons; where with alcohol and tobacco, that is not the case. As studies show, alcohol and tobacco are available everywhere, which causes them to be more risky and dangerous than the illegal drug, which is marijuana. Alcohol and tobacco are dangerous drugs
all names for one of the most misunderstood plants in the world: marijuana. Through the use of government slandering propaganda and stereotyping, many people have tunnel vision when it comes to the controversial issue. Many view marijuana as a harmful drug, not realizing all of the economic, resourceful, and medical uses that can generate from it. These are the same people who want to keep marijuana illegal and out of the public 's hands. Only in the past twenty years has marijuana made progress
why they would not try marijuana and you will always end up with the same iteration of : “I am scared of…” However many of these fears are irrational. If you are able to see through these fears, marijuana has countless benefits, not just medicinal. However, like every other drug, there are side-effects. The dangers of marijuana are real to an extent, but completely overstated and overdramatized. To compare a much more potent and dangerous drug is legal all around the world there are no objections
Medical Marijuana: Should it be legalized? Medical Marijuana has been used around the world for thousands of years to supposedly treat a wide variety of illnesses. A Chinese emperor Shen Nung was the first to record marijuana as a medical drug. The legalization of medical marijuana has been long debated within the American society and government. Marijuana was a legal source of medicine in the US until the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which federally prohibited marijuana. Medical Marijuana isn’t something
Marijuana, is a drug from the Cannabis plant that is intended for medical or recreational use. The main part of cannabis and what makes it so dangerous is THC one of the many known chemicals in the plant. Cannabis can be used in many ways including smoking, ingestion through food, or as an extract. My name is Timur Krapivin and I was caught being under the influence of drugs on school grounds. The specific drug that I was caught with was marijuana in the form of an edible. A weed brownie is one of