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    IV. Legalizing recreational marijuana is partly responsible for the rise in teenage and adult use as well as accidents related to DUID. The rise in use and accidents should be considered as this reflects back on the safety of our citizens. A. The New York Times article speaks to various studies that were performed relating to the adolescence use of marijuana nationwide and how users are getting younger and younger, from 8-12th graders. Poison control center has seen an increase in calls ad younger

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    Casee Nielsen Extra Credit SOC Drugs 3150 OPTIONAL EXTRA CREDIT PAPER This video I watched “Should Pot be Legal?”, brought up some really good points about the legalization of marijuana and it showed both sides of the argument. There was two people back and forth debating if marijuana should be legal or illegal. Hutchinson was against legalizing marijuana and Ethan Nadelmann was for legalizing marijuana. As it goes for me I agree with Ethan Nadelmann, I think that medical marijuana should definitely

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    Thinking Assignment – Portfolio Project Draft Legalization of Recreational Marijuana I. Create an introduction that generally introduces the problem using a statistic or true narrative example. States should consider that legalizing recreational marijuana would increase the use of marijuana amongst not only adults but adolescence. This law could potentially increase crimes and the number of arrests for driving under the influence of drugs, which puts the safety of our citizens at risk. Each state

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    marijuana in various states and the increase in abuse, use, and dependence of the substance. There would be a greater number of people who use marijuana recreationally with its increased legalization. Source F is supports Source A in this sense, in that the legalization of the drug will promote the recreational use and therefore an increased social tolerance towards the substance. This allows for there to be more people to accept the use of the drug in society, a negative influence. Source F also directly

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    Marijuana is one of the most popularly used drugs in the world, and is growing in popularity every year because of the fact that it has great potential for medical use, is relatively harmless compared to other legal and illegal drugs, and can be used to create practical household items. It is popular with many groups as a recreational drug, but recent research has suggested that marijuana can be very useful in medical applications. It contains chemicals that affect the central nervous system called

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    increased use of recovery schools. These schools offer therapeutic programs to assist addicts, and providing a safe educational environment without the temptations of drugs. In the Monitoring the Future Survey, 82% of high schoolers reported that they could easily access marijuana (Katel). The constantly available drug products in schools causes more problems for recovering drug addicts, leading to more relapses. A positive to recovery schools is students who continue to use drugs are expelled

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    legalization of recreational Marijuana as well as medical Marijuana in different years. In the following discussion the history of Marijuana legalization, the reasons for Marijuana legalization as well as the strategies that have contributed to the legalization of Marijuana, whether it’s for recreational purposes or medical reasons will be discussed further. History of Marijuana Legalization and Reasons Why It Was Legalized Marijuana became included in the scope of international drug control as early

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    for the past decade. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, over 94 million Americans have admitted to using marijuana at least once (2015). This can be said to be a pandemic, which is continuing to increase. Even though the recreational usage of marijuana is illegal within most of the United States, it continues to be used and is widely sold in the black market. States have started to realize that taxing the recreational use of marijuana can bring in more revenues for the state. Currently

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    be legal, it does not harm you like other drugs do, and it can help people who do not qualify for a medical card.

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    Herbal Drug Legalization

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    The legalization of drugs has been a widely-argued issue within the unites states. Spawning many controversies about whether to legalize drugs. Drugs created in a lab through chemical reactions should not be legalized. Herbal drug or natural drugs should be legalized. The medicinal qualities and traits associated with specific herbal drugs outweigh the negative effects. The herbal drug that should be legalized is marijuana. While drug such as heroin originated from the poppy plant or cocaine which

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