Legal and medical status of cannabis

would enable us to regulate the market, determine a much lower price and remove users need to raise funds through crime. Our legal system would be freed up and our prison population dramatically reduced, saving billions. “…Because of the low price, cigarette smokers do not have to steal to support their habits” (Dr. Cox). There is also no violence associated with the legal tobacco market. Legalizing drugs would be killing the ability of drug cartels to bribe officials, violate human rights, and cripple

marijuana because of factors like increased nuisance crimes- harassments and vandalism. “Predictions that legalization would kill the black market were false. Criminals from everywhere are attracted to Pueblo because they think it is a good place to grow cannabis. Just recently, more than 17 Cuban-Americans from Florida, two Russians, and an Argentinian were arrested.” (Pueblo County Sheriff Kirk M. Taylor, bostonglobe.com) Also, for road safety, local presses report that marijuana has caused a spike in fatal

marijuana being released from the classification of a level 1 drug could definitely have a positive effect on our country. Lowering where it stands on the DEA’s drug classification schedule, would give marijuana the opportunity to become federally legal and have an impact throughout our entire country, rather than only those few open minded states. If marijuana wasn’t misclassified its medicinal properties would finally be fully explored, the people would be allowed to gain factual knowledge, prison

of 2012, the state experienced massive economic growth. Licensed dispensaries generated more than $14 million within the first month of sales. In total, about $69 million was collected from taxes on marijuana in 2015 (Borchardt). If marijuana were legal in all 50 states,

Marijuana is the most frequently used illicit drug and has been used by nearly 100 million Americans. According to the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, about 19.8 millions Americans have smoked marijuana in the past year (NSDUH). The debate about whether or not it should be legalization has resulted in passionate and well-funded organizations on both sides of the argument working to advance their position. Among those organizations, we have NORML (National Organization for the

been zero reported cases of cannabis overdose. Marijuana prohibition and propaganda have caused America to fail to benefit from marijuana legalization. The factors of the consequences of the cannabis ban, organized crime being responsible for the distribution of marijuana, the success of Colorado’s statewide legalization, and the American public becoming less opposed to the proposal of legalizing marijuana are causing America to move forward towards permitting cannabis. All of these reasons determine

Push the Kush Rhetorical Precis In his research paper “Push the Kush” (2014), Tanner Terry, a junior at Granite Hills High School, argues that society, as a whole, will benefit from the legalization of marijuana. Terry supports his assertion by illustrating the various benefits that the legalization of marijuana can encompass such as help lower crime rates, develop the economy, and improve health. The author’s purpose is to persuade the reader so that more people will become informed of

in the United States. Conservative views deem the drug dangerous and debilitating, while reformers suggest that legalizing the plant would have an enormous positive impact on the economy. While others, the terminally ill, wish for the plant to be legal so it can be offered as a less toxic and sometimes more effective alternative to harsh prescription drugs. an overwhelming wealth of facts that state the benefits marijuana can have medically. It’s not hard to believe that marijuana is the 3rd most

society. Mendocino County is known for growing Marijuana in the state of California and is legal for the most part due to the medical use. Cartels however are using this to their advantage and are growing weed within the county to grow Marijuana on their own. Last week the DEA has confiscated over $800 million worth of pot. Three months ago the DEA has also determined that Marijuana has “no accepted medical use” and should

side effects include delusions, impaired memory, hallucinations and disorientation, which are no different from the side effects of alcohol alone. Marijuana has proven medical benefits. For example, investigators at Columbia University published clinical trial data in 2007, showing that HIV/AIDS patients who inhaled cannabis four times daily experienced substantial increases in