Is The Illegalization Of Marijuana Valid?
.... Hearst and Andrew Mellon. Herer notes that the Marijuana Tax
Act, which passed in 1937, coincidentally occurred just as the decoricator
machine was invented. With this invention, hemp would have been able to take
over competing industries almost instantaneously. According to Popular Mechanics,
"10,000 acres devoted to hemp will produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of
average [forest] pulp land." William Hearst owned enormous timber acreage so his
interest in preventing the growth of hemp can be easily explained. Competition
from hemp would have easily driven the Hearst paper-manufacturing company out of
business and significa .....
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Just Say No! A Profile Of Cocaine And It's Effects On Two Lives
.... that about 400 tons of
cocaine is smuggled out of South America each year. Half of this cocaine ends
up on the streets of the United States.
Cocaine is a stimulant. That means that when it is used, it speeds up
the way the brain works. It causes the brain to send out too many electrical
signals that then get mixed up. Because the brain tells the heart how fast and
often to beat, using cocaine can make the heart pump so fast that it damages the
muscles or can lead to a heart attack. Since the brain also tells the lungs how
often and how deep to breath, the use of cocaine can cause those signals to get
mixed up leading to .....
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Legalization Of Drugs
.... century provides the perfect historical support for the decriminalization
of drugs.
"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species
of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that
it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of
things that are not crimes. A Prohibition law strikes a blow at the very
principles upon which our government was founded."
The rise in violent crime over the years has been a concern to most. A major
cause of this increase in crime is the illegal trafficking of drugs. As violent
crime continues to increase, .....
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Legalize It!
.... a decriminalization of drug use by
eleven states. When researching to find if a particular solution will prove to
be of use, it is important to look at historical examples and learn from them.
In Liverpool, England, after a recent legalization of drugs in a regulatory
program that focuses on the medical benefits of drugs, most drug pushers have
left town because there is no longer a market for them(Priver 28). This shows
that legalization actually decreases use because of the increased emphasis on
rehabilitation and the decrease of drug pushers. Such a dramatic decrease in
drug dealers has not only resulted in crime reduction in .....
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Decriminalize Marijuana For The Good Of America
.... Assassin of Youth (Goldman 88). In his book,
Anslinger portrayed images of Mexican and Negro criminals, as well as young boys,
who became killers while under the influence of marijuana. With the added
public pressure, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into law the
Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. This law made the use and dale of marijuana federal
offenses. At this point marijuana was removed from the public eye, and heavy
users included poor Negroes, migrant Mexicans, and Jazz Musicians (Himmelstein
3).
Marijuana reappeared in the mid 1960's with the emergence of the
"Hippie." Widespread objection to the use of marijuana .....
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Legalization Of Drugs
.... habits for relatively modest amounts, many
cocaine and heroin addicts spend hundreds and even thousands of dollars a week"
(Lindsmith Center). If the drugs to which they are addicted were much cheaper-
which would be the case if they were legalized-the number of crimes committed by
drug addicts to pay for their habits would, in all likelihood, decline. Even if
a legal-drug policy included the a demand of relatively high taxes in order to
discourage consumption, drug prices would probably still be lower than they are
today.
The third drug connection is the commission of crimes- violent crimes in
particular-by people under the influ .....
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Marijuana: The Legalization
.... into fine detail into which I choose
not to venture. To summarize it all, if you're sick, or think you are, your doc
can get you some pot. Just like that.
So what's so great about this? It supposedly brings relief to those
with terminal illnesses. (Such were listed in 215) Cancer sufferers who are
inflicted with nausea due to chemotherapy have reported that a puff or two of a
marijuana cigarette relieves the pain. (Theorized after study by psychiatrist
Lester Grinspoon of Harvard Medical School) It has also been reported to relieve
the pain suffered by AIDS patients. Despite all this great relief, one question
remains .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
.... direct,
"smoke". Marijuana goes back over five thousand years. It is one of the oldest
agricultural commodities not grown for food. Hemp, first cultivated in China as
early as 2800 B.C., soon stretched to central Asia where it spread like milkweed
or thistle. Marijuana soon began to crowd out neighboring grasses and reaching
heights of three to twenty feet stretched over large plains. Local people began
to use the plant for its strong, durable fibers which they used for rope and to
construct material similar to linen. Early in the Christian Era, Marijuana
reached the Mediterranean countries of Europe. Its cultivation sprea .....
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Legalization Of Marjuana
.... are what contains the THC and gives the user the high
effect (Pluff 1). Other nations such as Europe have registered varieties of
hemp seeds that contain less than .03 percent of THC including the buds (Pluff
1).
Now that you know what hemp is, lets look at its uses. Hemp fiber can
be turned in to rope, canvas, and paper, and this is only a few of the uses.
The rope that is made with hemp is said to be resistant to both fresh water and
salt water. It is also considered better than most conventional rope by its
strength and holding power. Another product that can be made from hemp is
canvas. This canvas is very useful in maki .....
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Legalization Of Marijuana
.... This differences would prove to be the reason for their success and
the United States failure.
Legalization would also be very dangerous to the economy. The United
States economy is a rather shaky one. The introduction of such a huge industry
would be enough to crash our country into a depression. The market for
marijuana would be very extensive. Between the marketing of marijuana and
profit from taxes would generate would be too much for the United States to
endure in. The fact that marijuana would be legal would add another thing for
the people just another thing for them to spend their money on. We already ha .....
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LSD
.... drug for spies. However, it was proven to be unreliable
and was later replaced with other interrogation drugs.
LSD comes in the forms of crystals, liquids, tablets, gelatins, or
blotting squares. The squares have designs on them such a flowers, dragons,
shapes, animals, and cartoon characters to make them more attractive to young
children. Often called acid, white lightning, stamps, microdot, and grateful
dead, LSD is usually taken orally.
There are 4 levels of experience an LSD user will go through. The first
takes place within 45 minutes of ingestion. The user begins to feel enhanced
senses. Colors are .....
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LSD And PCP Use
.... and 8.7 percent have taken LSD at least once. Its not creating
the problems it created in the 60's because the average street dose is al least
50 percent lower.
Washington, D.C. is known as the PCP capital of the United States
because there are more illicit PCP lads here than anywhere both water and fat
soluble. In other words, any way ap person gets it in his or her body, it will
be absorbed. PCP can be snorted or inhaled, put in a pill form and swallowed,
sprayed on any thing and smoked. In Washington, dealers spray it on marijuana
and sell it to all the street junkies. People high on PCP either end up
overdosed, where t .....
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