Marijuana Legalization Research Paper

Marijuana is the people’s drug of choice; it’s the most popular drug of all the drugs. Made famous in movies (Cheech and Chong), hit an all-time boom in the 60’s when smoke to rebel against law enforcement. It is popular even though it is illegal in the United States; I explain in this paper why we should take advantage of its popularity and help our struggling economy. How we can use the way Amsterdam regulates its recreational marijuana, and implement it in the United States. Violence will drop dramatically especially in the towns close to the Mexican border. These are more than enough reasons as to why we should legalize marijuana, there is nothing but benefits.

In its early days cannabis or “marijuana” as it’s mostly known was first established in 8000 B.C. Later becoming more and more popular cannabis was incorporated in many things such as weave to fine hemp cloths, medicine, and as a fiber for the Chinese and later all across the world. Nowadays marijuana is illegal and has been so since 1970 after the Federal Controlled Substances Act was passed. Now there’s an ongoing controversy about cannabis being legalized or decriminalized for medical or even recreational uses. Marijuana laws are getting looser and looser and states around the world and starting to be more accepted but the drug is still not legalized completely and there’s no concrete reason why.

Out of all 50 states, 23 of them have legalized the use of medical marijuana, including our capital, Washington D.C..With that being said, I believe that marijuana, medical and recreational, should be decriminalized nationwide. The United States is in tremendous debt as a result of our own mistakes, and offering our help to other countries. If marijuana were legal in all 50 states, and were taxed to the benefit of surpassing our debt, we would become increasingly financially stable.

Marijuana is a very popular drug that many people have used. Over 98 million people over the age of 12 in the United States have smoked marijuana. It is known under many different names such as: weed, bud, ganja, hashish, doobie, reefer, mary-jane and grass. It plays quite a substantial role in modern day pop culture and almost everyone over the age of 16 knows what it is. Despite all this, marijuana is illegal and in most states a person can be sent to jail for the possession of less than a gram of this substance. Even if the person is doing nothing wrong and is subjected to a random search, if that person has marijuana on them, they will be charged with a criminal offense and sent to jail. Marijuana should be legalized because it can

In this paper I discuss why Cannabis should not be liberated in the United States. My focus and concerns are to the harm Cannabis is bringing to society now a days. In the United States more people are being influenced and being in favor of this famous “Drug Addiction” causing by illusions as ignorance is taking over and affecting a nation that is role models to many other nations. Awareness of after effects of drugs are being hidden and taken for granted as people keep on living this irresponsible life not thinking of the future. In this paper, I will consider some information based on my side of the argument.

A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly fifteen hundred pounds of marijuana within about 15 minutes to induce a lethal response... In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer than many of the foods we commonly consume. For example, eating ten raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death." DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young. Between 9 and 17 million Americans are occasional users of marijuana and about 3 million are daily users. As many as 40 million have tried the drug for many different reasons such as experimentation and peer pressure (Schleichert 40). Much of America's youth is experimenting with the drug and

In the United States of America it is illegal to sell, possess or use marijuana. In the United States of America it is legal to sell, possess and use marijuana. So which is it? Illegal or legal? The answer is both. The subject of marijuana is a current widespread, ever evolving hot topic of debate with seemingly opposing Federal and State laws.

More than half the states in the union have passed some form of legislation decriminalizing marijuana for either medical or recreational use despite Schedule I classification (a substance with no medical values and high potential for abuse) by the federal government. Cannabis prohibition has remained a controversial topic for the better part of the last century, and popular opinion has begun to shift. Although banned in most countries, cannabis has long been used in a variety of industrial, medicinal, and recreational purposes throughout history.

When people think of marijuana they think everything bad about medical marijuana just because it has the word marijuana, but is medical marijuana really bad? Alcohol has been legal for centuries now and no doubt the most harmful drug in America and probably the most addictive. Marijuana has medical benefits to it that everyone always overlooks. Therefor why push away legalizing something that is beneficial to Americans with sickness and keep legal something that is harmful to Americans today. If medical marijuana has so many medical benefits, then why is alcohol, which has no medical benefits legally and not marijuana?

Mary Jane, dope, weed, Aunt Mary, just a few examples of what the majority of people refer to as marijuana. Marijuana is a schedule one drug under the Controlled Substances Act; this means it has a high potential for abuse as well as no accepted medical use. Marijuana has constantly been in pop culture, rather it is a celebrity talking about their experience smoking it, or the hot topic of legalization, it seems as though America can not pass it by. It is here to stay, so why are people so opinionated over this issue? This seemingly harmless drug has many effects that the majority of people have either forgotten or ignored. The benefits of legalizing this controlled substance do not outweigh the consequences.

My legal paper will talk about how employees are taking other substances to reduce their physical pain. Recently in the news, an American football player smoked some synthetic marijuana and turned himself in at a police station with no shirt and his hands up. Currently, synthetic marijuana, or “spice” as it is commonly known in the streets, is legal in all states, even though it is worse than marijuana on all accounts. Stigma of marijuana varies in the United States, there’s a current trend where the people that are pro-marijuana are starting to be the majority. Certain states have legalized or decriminalized marijuana all together and with many other states following their footsteps. Do employers think it is okay that their workers take more dangerous substances in order to reduce their physical pain?

A major worry is that decriminalization will produce in more use of marijuana. Even with the criminalization marijuana, it is used by a massive percentage of the United States society. The most up-to-date national survey managed by the United States Government concluded that over 25 million people or approximately one out of ten citizens use marijuana at least once a year and over six percent of the population uses the drug monthly. The lifetime use projection of marijuana is a staggering 95 million, implicating that 47 percent of all adults have tried marijuana at least

Marijuana is a drug that is legal only in a few states. Stigma- a mark of disgrace towards a particular circumstance. Marijuana has been a drug that has been struggling in order to be legalized because of people’s opinions about it. The real question here is if marijuana has the potential to be legalized. This research paper is about marijuana and its different perspectives on it, it will analyze: how carrying marijuana is a crime, legalization of marijuana, and why people have a bad stigma about it; how it affects us and the economy.

A number of movements to legalize marijuana have been gaining attention lately. Currently there are 14 states where marijuana is legal for medical use (medicalmarijuana). 41% of U.S. citizens believe marijuana should be legalized (drugpolicy) but others are still concerned about health damage. American society has lost the war against marijuana, and that's okay. We should stop wasting time and money trying to reverse history and instead legalize both medical and recreational use of this mild narcotic widely seen as no more harmful than alcohol.

When I first arrived at Loras College, I was pro-legalization of marijuana. Although I knew quite a bit of the topic, looking back I can say that I did not have the sufficient information to have a position. After researching about it and listening to my classmates’ arguments, I still think marijuana should be legal but there should be policies to control its use and commerce.