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Marijuana (Canabis sativa) is currently classified as a Schedule 1 Controlled Substance. The drug is typically associated with...
Our society has changed radically over recent history. One of the reflections of this change is an evolution in the way that...
a form of anemia and also to aid men whose bodies do not produce the normal level of testosterone (NIDA "Anabolic"). Slang...
alcoholics, and alcohol is legal. Not all people who smoke marijuana use it to the extent that they do nothing with their lives. ...
Tobacco should be regarded as one of the most dangerous drugs currently being utilized in contemporary society....
marijuana is to implement taxes that could be used for the struggling state. People argue that many people already smoke and use t...
life instead of being the stronger aspects inherent to sizable social forces and requirements. Being deprived of a sound ed...
have changed, thankfully so have attitudes regarding the plant that serves a multitude of purposes. Unlike addictive opiates that...
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...
dangerous or physically addictive. Of course, there is some debate about the safety of marijuana. Curtis claims that the FDA will...
legalization with federal, state, and local government statistics; competition; elasticity; supply and demand evaluations; tax rev...
United States Department of Agriculture statistics (Stateman, 2009). Marijuana Policy Project California policy director Aaron Sm...
came up with a theory as to why people utilized marijuana for pleasure (Hallstone, 2002). This sociologist looked at drug use from...
to reduce pain remains controversial. A 2001 meta-analysis of 39 clinical studies found that marijuanas was no more effective in...
Benefits of Legalizing Marijuana Touted). The spokesman for Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, Billy Rogers, stated "We are...
wrestles with a myriad of questions about substance use and abuse. First, there are good reasons why marijuana should be legali...
thus freeing up money and space for more serious criminals. If marijuana were legal the law enforcement industry could spend more ...
been absolutely established is that THC does attach itself to brain receptors associated with "thought, memory, concentration, and...
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...
stated that both the political and public attitude towards the legalization of marijuana is greatly "skewed" (NORML). One Cons...
a variety of legal prescriptions under false pretenses, one is actually taking drugs illegally. Similarly, teenagers are no allowe...
of such states as Montana (Anonymous, 2005), Rhode Island (Roman, 2006) as well as Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Ne...
the listeners understanding of the fact that fever is a typical sign of infection, though obviously its not the only one; nor is i...
(Flores, 2005). Mechanism of Action A THC receptor in the brain receives the THC compound to create either or both "halluci...
Wilson, 2003). Short term effects are memory lapses, impairment of coordination and speech and the commonly associated drunken beh...
of trepidation. Not only was the drug then illegal in all states, the government had effectively convinced the public that mariju...
such that their motives are interpreted as malevolent, beginning in early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts" (DSM-IV,...
1993, p. 23). The authors believe that if people see patients using marijuana and "functioning fine," they will question why its i...
several European universities have parapsychology departments that investigate ESP, 96 percent of the scientists of the US Nationa...
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...