Pros And Cons Of Marijuana Law

The uses of marijuana amongst teenagers has increased over the years making it the most accessible drug in America as well as one the most beneficial due to its medical uses. According to the article of Marijuana Use Among Youths Is a Serious Problem, written by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASA) (2004), stated that the uses of marijuana has impacted the youth in many ways due to the unknown factors of marijuana such as admittance to treatment facilities, and being admitted into emergency rooms. The CASA took the con side of the argument dealing with the issues of marijuana use with teenagers. The second article Marijuana Should Be

Functionalists believe that society is based on a value consensus into which society socialises its members, which enables to cooperate harmoniously and meet society’s needs and goals.

Marijuana is a very well-known and commonly used drug. Yet, there are many different attitudes and meanings attached to it. So why is there such a variation in people’s attitudes towards marijuana. This can be explained and understood by using the symbolic interactionism theory. Marijuana is a very controversial topic among Americans and much research has been done regarding it. The Pew Research Center has gathered information on the opinions Americans have towards the legalization of marijuana. The data shows what percentage of Americans think it should be legal or not. There is also data on reasons why they have their opinions and meanings toward marijuana. This data helps to further understand and apply this theory to the use of marijuana.

Functionalism is a theory which allows an individual to understand their place in society, and understands the relationship between physical input and behavioural output. It also believes that society is a system of components that are internally connected and that all the components work together to maintain stability in the society.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions as reversed President Obama’s 2013 policy that protects legalized marijuana programs from intervention from the federal government. What this does is hands the decision back to each state. Each state’s U.S. attorney will now decide whether to enforce the federal marijuana law. Attorney General Sessions stated that “it is the mission of the Department of Justice to enforce the laws of the United States.” According to General Sessions, the previous policy undermines the rule of law. Currently, individuals that are prescribed medical marijuana and the programs that supply it are protected from federal prosecution by the Rohrabacher-Blumenauer amendment. The amendment expires on January 19, 2018. (Schladebeck & Blain 2018).

Functionalism is a system of thinking based in the ideas of the Emile Durkheim that looks at society from a large-scale perspective. It examines the necessary structures that make up the society and how each part helped to keep the society stable. According to functionalism society is heading toward an equilibrium.

For example functionalist believe that society it's made up a number of interrelated parts such as religion, family and economy in which each performs a function that helps to maintain stability and equilibrium (etext). Functionalist also believe that these structures are needed and cannot function without them. In other

Do you believe marijuana should be legal in the United States? Many people wonder, “What are some pros and cons to this?” Common pros include: medicinal use, federal approved THC, and better law enforcement. However, common cons include: altered perception, considered to be the “gateway drug,” addiction, and decreased mental and/or physical health. Decriminalizing marijuana in the U.S. would be more of a benefit, to society as a whole, than a disadvantage.

.). With proof that US citizens continue using prescription narcotics at an alarming rate, the Drug Enforcement Agency (D.E.A) does not classify any of those substances as a Schedule I substance. However, the D.E.A. classifies marijuana as a schedule I substance; making it extremely difficult for it to be researched for its medicinal value. There is a need for the D.E.A. to reclassify marijuana; it should not be classified as a schedule I substance because marijuana has several medical uses.

The Compassionate use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act (Act 410 ILCS 130) was signed by the Illinois governor Pat Quinn on August 1, 2013. Scientists discovered that by using Marijuana, patients could get relief from debilitating medical conditions. Marijuana is a scheduled I narcotic. Narcotics are drugs which have psychoactive chemical properties. The main question asked by people is that, can prolonged usage of marijuana lead to addiction? According to the act, this drug is given to the patients who are suffering from Neuropathic Pain, Multiple Sclerosis, Nausea, Epilepsy, Alzheimer, different types of Cancer, and HIV etc. Sadly, these patients are suffering from intolerable pain,

“Legalizing and regulating marijuana could bring the nation's largest cash crop under the rule of law; this could create jobs and economic opportunities in the formal economy instead of the illegal market” (Marijuana Legalization and Regulation, 2014). For example in Colorado after legalizing marijuana, first year sales rained in at $63 million in tax revenues with an additional $13 million for licenses and fees. Marijuana is such a debatable topic and brings so much confusion amongst society. While debating if it should be legalized there are different models and methods used in the framework of the legislation in regards to this topic.

In Stanislaus County at the Gallo Center for the Arts, there was a debate about legalizing marijuana for recreational use. It will be this November for Californians to vote on the ballot. The debate was composed with Sheriff Adam Christianson (against), California Growers Association executive director Hezekiah Allen (for it), Supervisor Vito Chiesa (for it) and Sacramento’s media consultant and panelist Jason Kinney (for it). The only person that was opposing the legalization of marijuana was the Sheriff and for him, it was due to see people in the streets not being able to get out of the addiction. In the panel one facilitator spoke about a research stating that marijuana alone was no addicted, people were addicted when there was another drug involved. The majority of the attendees were for the legalization of marijuana.

Functionalism is a consensus perspective, whereby society is based on shared values and norms into which members are socialised. For functionalists, society is seen as a system of social institutions such as the economy, religion and the family all of which perform socialisation functions.

Cannabis is becoming increasingly widespread and increasingly common in modern-day society for both recreational use and for medication. The article by Craig Reinarman, ‘Criminalisation, legalisation and the mixed blessing of medicalisation in the USA’ generates many controversial issues of cannabis.

Functionalism developed out of the positivist observation that 'all positive speculations owe their first origin to the occupations of practical life' (Comte, 1865, pg 11) and the boundaries of scientific knowledge can not go further than empirically observable truths and views societies as holistic systems where 'the whole is greater than the sum of its parts' (Taylor et el, 1997, pg 662). Functionalist analysis draws on three assumptions essentially seeking to transform society into a theoretical system of reality. The first assumption is that there are zero independent parts operating within