marijuana legalization
My Hypothesis was that the average person at Franciscan University would be against the legalization of marijuana usage. I interviewed four people, three girls and one boy. My dependent variable was the participants and their points of view while the independent variables were the questions that were asked. Five questions were asked and they all were asking for opinions on marijuana. The questions were asked from an unbiased point of view. My process of finding the data included asking a person if they were willing to take an interview on marijuana legalization and if they were I would ask their age and write down their gender by assumption. Then I began the asking process. I asked each participant one question at a time and separately from each other so that the answers and opinions that they gave were completely their own. My first question was on a Likert Scale. I asked each person to elaborate and at some instances their elaboration conflicted with my second question. In that circumstance I used their comments to answer the second question and moved onto the third. My first question consisted of; on a scale of one to five do you agree that marijuana should be legalized? Three of the four participants said that they were undecided on the situation and chose a three as their answer. The remaining participant, Participant #3, agreed with a 2 on the legalization of marijuana. In the second question, I asked simply how they felt about marijuana. Participant #1 and Participant #2 both said that there are good and bad parts of the drug, but they mainly were negative on the legalization because of the likeliness of its abuse if legalized. Participant #3 found that even though she believed it should be legal, that she was very against the usage of it. The last participant was very insistent on how the illegality was a repeat on history with the past laws on alcohol. In conclusion, there were only negative comments made on the feelings of marijuana. For my