Legalize It!
.... end of prohibition with the 21st amendment, alcohol consumption doubled
while prohibition decreased use by 50 percent(Light). They also cite that use
of marijuana peaked in 1979 when there was a decriminalization of drug use by
eleven states. When researching to find if a particular solution will prove to
be of use, it is important to look at historical examples and learn from them.
In Liverpool, England, after a recent legalization of drugs in a regulatory
program that focuses on the medical benef .....
|
|
Decriminalize Marijuana For The Good Of America
.... years of being legal, the potential problems of marijuana were brought into
the public eye by Harry J. Anslingler, the commissioner of the Federal Bureau of
Narcotics and author of Marijuana: Assassin of Youth (Goldman 88). In his book,
Anslinger portrayed images of Mexican and Negro criminals, as well as young boys,
who became killers while under the influence of marijuana. With the added
public pressure, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. This l .....
|
|
Legalization Of Drugs
.... burglary, as
well as drug dealing, prostitution, and many others, to earn enough money to
purchase the relatively high-priced illicit drugs. "Unlike the millions of
alcoholics who can support their habits for relatively modest amounts, many
cocaine and heroin addicts spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars a week"
(Lindsmith Center). If the drugs to which they are addicted were much cheaper-
which would be the case if they were legalized-the number of crimes committed by
drug addicts to pay for thei .....
|
|
Marijuana: The Legalization
.... a plan
for the safe and affordable distribution of marijuana to all patients in medical
need of marijuana. (Proposition 215 Section 11362.5)
Of course, it goes on and breaks into fine detail into which I choose
not to venture. To summarize it all, if you're sick, or think you are, your doc
can get you some pot. Just like that.
So what's so great about this? It supposedly brings relief to those
with terminal illnesses. (Such were listed in 215) Cancer sufferers who are
i .....
|
|
Legalization Of Marijuana
.... exist throughout the world. In Africa, Marijuana is
known as "dagga", in China as "ma", in Northern Europe as "hemp" and in the
United States as either "pot", "buds", "reefer", "weed" or the more direct,
"smoke". Marijuana goes back over five thousand years. It is one of the oldest
agricultural commodities not grown for food. Hemp, first cultivated in China as
early as 2800 B.C., soon stretched to central Asia where it spread like milkweed
or thistle. Marijuana soon began to crowd out neighboring .....
|
|
Legalization Of Marjuana
.... chemical found
in marijuana. Hemp can be confused with marijuana and considered the same, but
do not let this fool you. Marijuana comes from the flowers or "buds" of the
hemp plant. These buds are what contains the THC and gives the user the high
effect (Pluff 1). Other nations such as Europe have registered varieties of
hemp seeds that contain less than .03 percent of THC including the buds (Pluff
1).
Now that you know what hemp is, lets look at its uses. Hemp fiber can
be turned in to rope, ca .....
|
|
Legalization Of Marijuana
.... had with reduction of crime due to the wide-
spread legalization of marijuana. The differences between New Amsterdam and the
United States is great due to a different structured economy and different
cultures. This differences would prove to be the reason for their success and
the United States failure.
Legalization would also be very dangerous to the economy. The United
States economy is a rather shaky one. The introduction of such a huge industry
would be enough to crash our country into a depressi .....
|
|
LSD
.... because it causes veins to
contract, but also caused gangrene of the limbs, and so further experimentation
with the drug was abandoned. In the late 50's, however, LSD was used by the
CIA as an interrogation drug for spies. However, it was proven to be unreliable
and was later replaced with other interrogation drugs.
LSD comes in the forms of crystals, liquids, tablets, gelatins, or
blotting squares. The squares have designs on them such a flowers, dragons,
shapes, animals, and cartoon characters to .....
|
|
LSD And PCP Use
.... term or lysergic acid diethyl
amide. National Institute on Drug Abuse surveys indicate illicit use of LSD has
remained relatively constant. Almost 2 percent of high school seniors are
current users and 8.7 percent have taken LSD at least once. Its not creating
the problems it created in the 60's because the average street dose is al least
50 percent lower.
Washington, D.C. is known as the PCP capital of the United States
because there are more illicit PCP lads here than anywhere both water and fat
s .....
|
|
Marijuana
.... in cigars called blunts which are larger and, therefore, more
dangerous. Marijuana is a green, brown, or a gray mixture of dried, shredded
flowers and leaves of the hemp plant (Cannabis sativa). There are many slang
names for marijuana such as pot, weed, boom, gangster, and Mary Jane. This drug
causes Timing, coordination, alertness, and performance to be affected in a
negative way. Marijuana has THC in it which is absorbed by fatty tissues in
various organs. THC can be detected using urine tests a .....
|
|
Marijuana
.... This
double standard may have resulted from the wishes of those in power. Alcohol
prohibition struck directly at tens of millions of Americans of all ages,
including many of societies most powerful members. Marijuana prohibition
threatened far fewer Americans, and they had relatively little influence in the
districts of power. Only the prohibition of marijuana, which some sixty million
Americans have violated since 1965 has come close to approximating the
prohibition experience, but marijuana smoke .....
|
|
Legalization Of Marijana: For
.... admit they have smoked marijuana.
We should begin to reflect that reality in our state and federal legislation,
and stop acting as if otherwise law-abiding marijuana smokers are part of the
crime problem. They are not, and it is absurd to continue to spend law
enforcement resources arresting them.
Marijuana smokers in this country are no different from their non-
smoking peers, except for their marijuana use. Like most Americans, they are
responsible citizens who work hard, raise families, contribute .....
|
|
Marijuana: A Horticultural Revolution, A Medical And Legal Battle
.... for living without unbearable pain.
Marijuana has been used many times to help ease pain and suffering. It
often eases nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, reduces the pain
of AIDS patients and lowers eye pressure in glaucoma sufferers. Cancer and AIDS
patients often lose a lot of weight, either due directly to their illness or
indirectly to the treatment of the illness. Dramatic weight loss puts their
lives in even more danger. Marijuana stimulates the appetite, thus enabling
pat .....
|
|
Marijuana
.... When users take
marijuana, it doesn't lead to violence-related crimes. Most users commit crime
because they want to get marijuana, but this problem can be easily solved if the
government would legalize marijuana again. When you take marijuana, it doesn't
make you violent, in fact it leads to non-violence.
There has never been a case that a person died from smoking marijuana.
THC is one of the few chemicals that has no known toxic amount. This is amazing,
since tobacco(which is legal) has 340,000 pl .....
|
|
Marijuana
.... of that initial 68% were seniors who had only tried it
once. I think the percentage would drop significantly if the Post changed the
wording from "tried it once" to "used multiple times".
Knowing the geographic location of those surveyed would be useful in a
number of ways. First, it would ease the fears of parents not living in the
troubled areas. More importantly, it would allow school officials, drug
enforcement officials, drug counselors, etc., to focus their attention and dime
to those specific .....
|
|
|
|
