YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Marijuana
Essays 31 - 60
to make changes to the society. this becomes more evident when we note that "While the number of offenders in each major offense c...
could be a prescribed drug, similar to what is done with morphine" (Marijuana - the Pros and Cons of Legalization, 2003). Clear...
not want to see this step being the first of many that would, as they see it, ultimately endanger society through the legalization...
be linked to destructive tendencies which target either property, people or animals. Drug abusers often steal as it suits their p...
mean that certain professionals could legally take a smoke break and then go into surgery to perform delicate operations (Harbath,...
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...
type of medical risks or impairments of which the general public should be aware before purchase. In the event that marijuana leg...
Benefits of Legalizing Marijuana Touted). The spokesman for Nevadans for Responsible Law Enforcement, Billy Rogers, stated "We are...
thus freeing up money and space for more serious criminals. If marijuana were legal the law enforcement industry could spend more ...
a "gateway" drug that inevitably leads to narcotics use, either cocaine or heroin. The fact is that marijuana is not physically ad...
wrestles with a myriad of questions about substance use and abuse. First, there are good reasons why marijuana should be legali...
been absolutely established is that THC does attach itself to brain receptors associated with "thought, memory, concentration, and...
stated that both the political and public attitude towards the legalization of marijuana is greatly "skewed" (NORML). One Cons...
argument against marijuana legalization. Califano specifically focuses on the issue of marijuana as a gateway drug and cites sta...
Public sentiment therefore leaves room for the possibility of legalization. Legalization can, in fact, be justified when we consi...
it made people violent and by the 1930s, the substance was illegal in all states (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). In 1936, Po...
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...
are important issues and deserve attention because they will shape our nations future. Clearly we can build more and more prisons,...
of trepidation. Not only was the drug then illegal in all states, the government had effectively convinced the public that mariju...
of marijuana, 2001). The use of the drug in various forms continues to spread through the Middle East and in the 1300s, Arab trade...
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...
from pot bootleggers" (ONeill, 2002; NA). The above statement presents many of the arguments in favor of legalizing marijuana. F...
compounds and has been implicated in a high percentage of automobile crashes and workplace accidents" (Medical Marijuana ProCon.or...
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...
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...
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...
dangerous or physically addictive. Of course, there is some debate about the safety of marijuana. Curtis claims that the FDA will...