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    Weed Research Paper

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    Marijuana is most commonly referred to as “Weed”. Weed is Americas most popular drug. Marijuana refers to the dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds from the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa. The plant contains the mind-altering chemical delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and other related compounds. Marijuana is not like other drugs, weed is inhaled as a smoke and then proceeds to the lungs. There at the lungs it weakens the little hairs inside the lung witch then lets the weed smoke slip through with

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    Literature Review The article, “Marijuana and the Teen Brain”, from the Scientific American journal, Claudia Wallis, argues that marijuana negatively affects the teenage brain. Wallis begins her argument by stating her viewpoint on the drug and then proceeds to provide information to support her stance. Multiple studies by scientists/researchers are cited in this article including those based on x-rays of a marijuana user’s brain and others that tested marijuana users on their cognitive skills.

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    Marijuana Is Unhealthy

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    Most people think that Marijuana is unhealthy and is just as worse as other abused drugs, but did you know that Marijuana is not unhealthy in any way at all? It actually is a medicine that is legally used in some states of the U.S. and other countries. It is used to treat depression, prevent most types of Cancer, and to prevent other terrible diseases. Cigarettes are the main cause of Cancer in the lungs, bones, gums (in mouth), and other Cancers and hundreds of diseases. Marijuana, is basically

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    What Is Medical Marijuana?

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    Griffiths, who has a PhD in philosophy from the University of Delaware and has worked as a survey administrator at the university’s Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies, defines medical marijuana as “…the medically controlled use of marijuana or tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana) by patients seeking a means to address medical problems including nausea, vomiting, weight loss, multiple sclerosis, asthma, inflammation, glaucoma, poor appetite, spasticity, chronic pain

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    Buzz About Marijuana

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    addiction” (Goldberg, WebMD). The psychoactive affects of marijuana is the main reason for its popularity amongst drug users. By smoking marijuana, a sense of euphoria bliss, compared to the feeling of intoxication from alcohol, is achieved due to Tetrahydrocannabinol or THC, the main psychoactive drug found in

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    Legalizing marijuana for health and municipal purposes in the United States Of America, personally I think it's a great idea. A lot of other people don't think legalizing marijuana is the greatest idea in the world, they think that people will use it in the wrong ways and not to help with any diseases that it can kill. Legalizing marijuana in the United States should be done because it can help people with diseases that they can’t fix with just any medicine, it can kill most deadly diseases, and

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    Can Medical Marijuana Actually Help You? INTRODUCTION: Medical Marijuana is a very controversial topic amongst the human population. Some say Marijuana is a drug and people who use Marijuana are criminals. On the other side of the argument there is: Marijuana is a plant, and it is grown to be used for medicinal purposes. Whichever side of the argument you are on, there is no denying that Medical Marijuana has been a hot topic for discussion in the last five years. Personally I believe the reasons

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    In my opinion Marijuana should be legal for medical uses because it can sometimes heals better than other medicines. Pot should be legal because some people smoke it to treat depression, Alzheimer's, and a variety of other diseases and disabilities . I am correct because different disabilities and diseases can be treated if the patient was prescribed medical marijuana. Marijuana should be legal because it can help with depression. Marijuana should be legal because pot can treat depression. It

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    marijuana was added to the US Pharmacopeia and then removed in 1942. Marijuana was classified as a schedule I drug in 1970 which classified it as having "no accepted medical use" (ProCon 2017). The toxicity of marijuana is caused by delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and was first identified in 1964. The short-term effects of marijuana that THC activates receptors in the brain would normally respond "to natural THC-like chemicals". When marijuana is used, a part of the brain with the highest number

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    Known by the botanical name “cannabis”, Marijuana also has several other street names such as “bud” or “herb” is the preparation of the cannabis plant which is part of the flower genome. The cannabis plants main uses are as psychoactive drug for humans looking for a high or medicinal purposes. Cannabis has been in human history for centuries. It not only in biographies written by various people throughout history since the 17th century but there are also some cultures such as the native American

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