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Effects of the Global Economy on the US Economy

growth of the global economy" (Levy 130). Levy (2005) reviews several theories of international trade, including "David Ricardos ...

Arguments in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana for Medical Use

are important issues and deserve attention because they will shape our nations future. Clearly we can build more and more prisons,...

Should The United States Legalize Medical Marijuana Use?

of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...

Medical Use of Marijuana Should Be Legalized

the listeners understanding of the fact that fever is a typical sign of infection, though obviously its not the only one; nor is i...

Current Views on Drug Addiction

(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...

Recreational Drugs and Their Negative Impact

Wilson, 2003). Short term effects are memory lapses, impairment of coordination and speech and the commonly associated drunken beh...

An Argumentative Essay on Using Marijuana

argument against marijuana legalization. Califano specifically focuses on the issue of marijuana as a gateway drug and cites sta...

Canada and Marijuana Legalization

stated that both the political and public attitude towards the legalization of marijuana is greatly "skewed" (NORML). One Cons...

Illegal Drugs and Their Impact

a variety of legal prescriptions under false pretenses, one is actually taking drugs illegally. Similarly, teenagers are no allowe...

Criminal Justice VI

initiated by the police, who have more freedom and a wider range of choices in how to proceed when dealing with a juvenile than wi...

Arguing in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana for Medical Uses

Public sentiment therefore leaves room for the possibility of legalization. Legalization can, in fact, be justified when we consi...

Reefer Madness: Marijuana Use in the 1950s

of trepidation. Not only was the drug then illegal in all states, the government had effectively convinced the public that mariju...

Pharmacology and Psychology of Marijuana

THC, and it is "present in all parts of both the male and female plants but is most concentrated in the resin (cannabin) in the fl...

Various Psychology Assignments

several European universities have parapsychology departments that investigate ESP, 96 percent of the scientists of the US Nationa...

PowerPoint Slides; The History of Marijuana

This 3 page paper is a 6 slide presentation on the history of marijuana, how it has and is used and its status in the law on the U...

The History of Marijuana; Legal Status and Usage

6,000 BCE as well as for textiles in 4,000 BCE in China and it is also recorded as being used as a medicine in China in 2727 (Narc...

Hypothetical Marijuana Study

such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts" (DSM-IV,...

Marijuana Should be Legal in Medical Applications

1993, p. 23). The authors believe that if people see patients using marijuana and "functioning fine," they will question why its i...

Medicinal Marijuana

dangerous or physically addictive. Of course, there is some debate about the safety of marijuana. Curtis claims that the FDA will...

The Costs of Prohibition and the Economic Effects of the Legalization of Marijuana

legalization with federal, state, and local government statistics; competition; elasticity; supply and demand evaluations; tax rev...

Economic Benefits of Marijuana Legalization

Benefits of Legalizing Marijuana Touted). The spokesman for Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, Billy Rogers, stated "We are...

The Medical Argument for Legalized Marijuana

to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...

Medical Marijuana Debate

This paper presents an argument in favor of medical marijuana. The writer discusses the positions in this debate, both pro and con...

Those Who Use Marijuana, Those Who Don't and Attitudinal Variations

came up with a theory as to why people utilized marijuana for pleasure (Hallstone, 2002). This sociologist looked at drug use from...

Argument in Favor of Marijuana

thus freeing up money and space for more serious criminals. If marijuana were legal the law enforcement industry could spend more ...

Legalization of Marijuana

wrestles with a myriad of questions about substance use and abuse. First, there are good reasons why marijuana should be legali...

Marijuana and its Effects

been absolutely established is that THC does attach itself to brain receptors associated with "thought, memory, concentration, and...

Using Medical Marijuana

number of states. Predictably, this has caused a great deal of controversy. This paper considers the following questions: What con...

Marijuana Policy

This research paper/essay presents an overview of the issues pertaining to current marijuana policy, both in the US and aboard. Th...

Decriminalizing Marijuana - Speaking Notes

pill form of marijuana (Brookhiser 1996, p. 27). Additionally, in countries such as the United States, where expensive health insu...