Research Paper On Legalizing Marijuana

Marijuana or Cannabis is a hallucinogenic drug that contains a very high amount of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). It can be used for both medical and recreational reasons, but it is currently illegal in most states in this country. This drug has been illegal for the majority of this country's history, and just recently several states like Washington, California, and New York have passed laws so that people with medical issues are able to consume this drug for their own medical needs

The legalization of recreational marijuana is an important debate, one that could really cause drastic changes in societies. Marijuana has entered a dark stage in the pathway of legalization, and it is correlating with the prohibition stage that alcohol rested in. The debate can often reach a nasty level between individuals taking sides with the topic. Legalization of marijuana can be very beneficial under regulated circumstances, therefore making all of the negative views less important.

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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.

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

Legalizing marijuana has been a dispute in American for several years now, yet should not be considered. Marijuana also referred to as cannabis or weed is one of the most controversial drugs in the world and especially in the United States. Many people believe that it should be legalized because of medical reasons but on the contrary this substance does more harm than good. Society has been negatively affected in many different ways through this hallucinogenic drug. Crime rate has increased because of marijuana and legalizing marijuana would only increase this rate. Also through the legalization of marijuana our society is at harm of many risks. Our youth

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

The purpose of this essay is to provide an argument for the legalization of cannabis for both medicinal and recreational use, and to bring to light some of the negative consequences that the war on drugs has caused by demonizing cannabis for over 100 years, and to show how communities are both positively affected by making cannabis legal, and negatively affected by the continued perpetuation of ignorance that has gone on for far too long. That being the illegality of the possession and consumption cannabis.

Businessmen involved with the cotton, paper, and lumber industries lobbied against hemp and marijuana cultivation due to the potential threat of competition by a hemp based company. The result was the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, which effectively banned the sale and use of the plant (Earleywine). Later, In the 1960’s, then President Richard Nixon manipulated his party into banning marijuana in order to use it as a political tool. In an interview, former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman said, “In 1968, the Nixon White House… had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people", he continued, “[By banning marijuana] We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did" (Baum). This war on drugs has destroyed countless lives in an attempt by political parties to control the

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?

Furthermore, legalization of marijuana for recreational use reduces an important revenue stream for many organized crimes. Each year, the prevalent consumption of the marijuana turns thousands of regular citizens into criminals. Similar to liquor during the Prohibition Era in the 1920s, marijuana is an easy income for organized crimes, generating billions of dollars to cannabis cultivators, who commit variety of crimes both at home and abroad. The prohibition of marijuana, just like the prohibition of liquor, is what produces the enormous profit for the criminal organizations that provide access to the substance for millions. And similar to how the influence of organized crimes, during the Prohibition, were reduced and eventually vanished,

Have you ever heard about one kind of drug that can be used like a medicine? Have you ever think using a drug should be legalize by law in US? This drug name is Marijuana. Marijuana can be considered one kind of medicine, which has numerous medical applications such as treating symptoms of cancer, glaucoma, and epilepsy. Legalizing using marijuana in US will bring a lot of benefit to medical sector when it’s under control of doctors. However, it is a hard issue to be allowed straightly.

Marijuana is illustrated as a dangerous drug, but its not. Marijuana has an epic history and today it has become illegal on a federal level, and punishable by law to possess, or use. Is marijuana all that bad? A threat to our youth and our society? Or is it plant capable of easing the pain of the sick, rejuvenating the weary, and bringing the ease to our stressful lives. Recreational Marijuana should be legalized in United states because we will no longer be empowering criminals, it violates our right as American citizens and it will benefit our economy.

The legalization of Marijuana has been a topic of discussion for quite some time. The legalization of marijuana has its benefits the most obvious one being the medicinal value. In Elizabeth McGee’s article she states how in the 1970’s people would use Marijuana to treat their Glaucoma, stating that “people who used other glaucoma treatments experienced headache and blurred vision and could develop a tolerance for conventional drugs.” Marijuana also helps treat other disorders such as help control epileptic seizures, and also helps decrease symptoms of seizure disorder. In an article by Business Insider “23 Health Benefits of Marijuana” one of their stories in the article was of a documentary produced by CNN “weed” Gupta