Legal and medical status of cannabis

United States significantly. Before our new found freedom of this drug was brought to light you couldn’t carry any marijuana on you without taking a one way trip to jail. Now anyone over the age of 21 can carry up to an ounce of marijuana and it is legal. Anyone wishing to grow their own can have up to 6 plants per person and no more than 3 flowering plants at a time (Marijuana Retailers & Home Growers). One plant can…

today is whether or not medical marijuana should be legalized. The controversy surrounding the legalization of marijuana debates the drug effectiveness vs. safety and regulation. My belief is that marijuana can have many positive effects on a disease process where other therapeutic measures have failed. Being a nurse I have seen many patients treated with conventional medication and not always do these pharmaceutical therapy’s help. If marijuana was legalized for medical use, many patients could…

these questions as they consider the legalization of marijuana.” This was the answer from Chris Thorne, the vice president of communications, to the question of marijuana legalization. Colorado and Washington together decriminalized and legalized cannabis by popular vote in 2012. After that, more areas of the country joined this tide, including Oregon, Alaska and Washington D.C. Many states followed Washington and Colorado’s approach to impelling their legalization process, such as…

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Humans have utilized cannabis since 2700 B.C. Over the last few decades, marijuana has been used for textiles, medicine, and recreational use. Society tends to correlate marijuana with lazy, unproductive, and food munching individuals suffering from a drug addiction, but the public opinion has changed in recent years. This shift in opinion is due to the fact that scientific research has disproven many of the myths created by reefer madness in the 1960s. The legal use of marijuana recreationally…

Just like the alcohol prohibition, the marijuana trade thrives on the black market. Violent criminals control black market sales of marijuana. Theoretically, if marijuana were legal, it would be sold at a lower price. A lower price would decrease the amount of crimes like theft and burglary to pay for marijuana. Legalizing marijuana could possibly lower crime rates of violence caused by drug related feuds. The implications…

has no medical benefits. However, marijuana is still widely used by many Americans; in fact, according to a recent Gallup poll (2013): “38% [of Americans] Have Tried Marijuana,” needless to say that this percentage could be considerably higher because the information is self reported (Saad 2013). States are now taking action to legalize marijuana for medical use and a few states have even legalized it for recreational use: twenty- three states have legalized marijuana in some form (medical…

case? If so, why have other countries begun to legalize marijuana? The decision on whether to legalize this drug has become a heated debate over the years. Moreover, with today 's media-rich culture, it is not a surprise to find endless aspects on cannabis as our uncertainty and ambivalent attitude slowly radiates towards the substance. However, the contention that legalization would lead to usage of other drugs and increase in potency is often based on assumption rather than evidence. Hence,…

Marijuana, also known as cannabis, weed, pot, grass, and bud has become a huge part of society within the past few years. One in three people in America have tried smoking marijuana at one point in their lives. This debate over legalizing marijuana has been going on for quite some time, but it is recently more intense than ever. In 1969, only 12% of our population supported legalizing marijuana. Today, a majority of Americans support the legalization for recreational use. Meanwhile a majority of…

of economic decline and continues to face a growing national debt. Marijuana legalization could solve this issue. Legalizing cannabis seems inevitable as Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington, and the District of Columbia have legalized recreational marijuana and many other states have legalized medical marijuana and decriminalized possession of marijuana, despite cannabis being considered a Schedule I drug at the federal level. Some argue against its use and consider it dangerous, although this…