Legalizing Marijuana Research Paper
PHI-105
11/20/2012
Beverly Santelli
The Legalization of Marijuana
Marijuana has been criminalized for enough generations to make it a fear or pride issue in the minds of the lawmakers and the voting public. The Federal government may have just kept it a schedule one drug because it has been one for so long, but, to legalize it at the federal level instead of various states legalizing it could create new wealth and give our country back its financial independence. However this will only really be effective if it is done on a federal level or our country will keep fighting within its own government. The saving grace is that it would still be controlled so that it would be hard for minors to access it. The legalization of marijuana could …show more content…
To legalize the production, possession, delivery and distribution of marijuana really should come down to the rights of the individuals who, like alcohol, and cigarettes, choose to use or abuse it. Marijuana growing farms and food processors would be licensed and controlled by the same board that controls tobacco, liquor, and fire arms. Alcohol abuse kills 75,000 people a year. Legal prescription drugs kill 100,000 people a year. Marijuana kills zero. The statistics for violent crime and accidental death follow the same pattern and could add millions of dollars to real businesses and restore respect for law enforcement. Because people are dying, the drug war is a war. In Mexico, in the last five years, police and drug cartels have killed more than 55,000 people and the money is now going into the pockets of criminal organizations every …show more content…
It has been proven in a clinical trials and found that medical marijuana reduces intraocular pressure, as well as blood pressure overall . As an Oncologist, Donald Abrams started looking for ways that were safe and effective for chronic pain, nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite. “This preliminary study seems to imply that people may be able to ease pain taking smaller amounts of prescription painkillers for longer periods of time, if taken in conjunction with cannabis,” Abrams said. “Pain is a big problem in America and chronic pain is one reason many people utilize the health care system.” Cannabidiol is a major, non-psychoactive derivative of marijuana that helps shrink inflammation and reduce pain without causing some of the strong mind effects of THC. It has been used to relieve pain from arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, psychotic disorders and epilepsy. Larger amounts of CBD can relax the clinical study patient, in mind and body, without causing euphoric effects associated with marijuana. This proof from one of many universities and a cancer and pain specialist, could make it legal to give the people in so much pain and misery, comfort and ease their of their suffering. They would not have to smoke it secretly or meet contacts in back allies. It could be manufactured and produced as a natural answer to the chemicals and opiates that they are forced to take that cause
11/20/2012
Beverly Santelli
The Legalization of Marijuana
Marijuana has been criminalized for enough generations to make it a fear or pride issue in the minds of the lawmakers and the voting public. The Federal government may have just kept it a schedule one drug because it has been one for so long, but, to legalize it at the federal level instead of various states legalizing it could create new wealth and give our country back its financial independence. However this will only really be effective if it is done on a federal level or our country will keep fighting within its own government. The saving grace is that it would still be controlled so that it would be hard for minors to access it. The legalization of marijuana could …show more content…
To legalize the production, possession, delivery and distribution of marijuana really should come down to the rights of the individuals who, like alcohol, and cigarettes, choose to use or abuse it. Marijuana growing farms and food processors would be licensed and controlled by the same board that controls tobacco, liquor, and fire arms. Alcohol abuse kills 75,000 people a year. Legal prescription drugs kill 100,000 people a year. Marijuana kills zero. The statistics for violent crime and accidental death follow the same pattern and could add millions of dollars to real businesses and restore respect for law enforcement. Because people are dying, the drug war is a war. In Mexico, in the last five years, police and drug cartels have killed more than 55,000 people and the money is now going into the pockets of criminal organizations every …show more content…
It has been proven in a clinical trials and found that medical marijuana reduces intraocular pressure, as well as blood pressure overall . As an Oncologist, Donald Abrams started looking for ways that were safe and effective for chronic pain, nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite. “This preliminary study seems to imply that people may be able to ease pain taking smaller amounts of prescription painkillers for longer periods of time, if taken in conjunction with cannabis,” Abrams said. “Pain is a big problem in America and chronic pain is one reason many people utilize the health care system.” Cannabidiol is a major, non-psychoactive derivative of marijuana that helps shrink inflammation and reduce pain without causing some of the strong mind effects of THC. It has been used to relieve pain from arthritis, inflammatory bowel diseases, psychotic disorders and epilepsy. Larger amounts of CBD can relax the clinical study patient, in mind and body, without causing euphoric effects associated with marijuana. This proof from one of many universities and a cancer and pain specialist, could make it legal to give the people in so much pain and misery, comfort and ease their of their suffering. They would not have to smoke it secretly or meet contacts in back allies. It could be manufactured and produced as a natural answer to the chemicals and opiates that they are forced to take that cause