Contents
Introduction
TOC o “1-3” h z u I. Marijuana PAGEREF _Toc79816602 h 1 A Origin
B Factors
C Legal
II. Heading 2 A Purpose
B collaboration
C Evidence
III. Heading 3 A popularity
B Impact
C riskiness of substance
IV. Heading 4A policy changes
B hypothesis
C Comparison between marijuana and alcohol
IV. Heading 4 A Economic profit
B social effect
C removal of law
V. Heading 5 A chemical effect of marijuana
B challenges of teenagers
C responsibility of teenagers
VI. Heading 6 A marijuana trafficking
B increase of legalization of marijuana
C introduction of the RAND organization
VII. Heading 7 A long term significance of marijuana
B short term significance of marijuana
C addiction of the workers of the government
VIII Heading 8 A direct effects on individual health
B short term memory
C Results on the entire society
Marijuana We should not legalize marijuana for medical purpose
Marijuana is a drug from cannabis plant native to Central Asia and the Indian subcontinent, it is used as a drug for both recreational and entheogenic purpose in various traditional medicines.
Medical marijuana is legal in 20 states and the direct District of Columbia, recreational Marijuana is now legal in Washington and Colorado.
Marijuana is used in medication prescribed by physician and it has been approved, prescribed and made available to the public are very different from other commercially available prescription drugs. Due to this differences fake problems monstrous by the public and many physicians.
The first anti-marijuana laws in the United States date from 1911, when
Massuachusetts banned marijuana, followed in 1913 by California, Maine, Wyoming, and
Indiana. Other states followed suit over the next two decades; by 1933, 27 had
criminalized marijuana. The main factors generating these new laws seem to have been
anti-Mexican sentiment (whipped up by popular notions that marijuana was a social ill
brought by Mexican laborers) and fear that marijuana would engender criminal or even
murderous tendencies in its users.
At the federal level, marijuana was legal in the United States until 1937, when
Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act, effectively criminalizing marijuana and
prohibiting its possession or sale under federal law. Only those who paid a hefty excise
tax were permitted to use marijuana for medical and industrial uses. In the 1950s, a series
of federal laws, including the Boggs Act of 1952 and the Narcotics Control Act of 1956,
strengthened penalties against marijuana use and imposed mandatory jail sentences for
drug-related offenses.
Attitudes began to change in the late 1960s; in 1970 Congress repealed most
mandatory penalties for drug-related offenses, based on the view that mandatory
minimums had done little to curb drug use (Schlosser 1994). The 1972 Shafer
Commission, appointed by President Nixon and operating under the National Commission
The following are reasons why we should not legalize marijuana for medical purpose;
Heading 1In availability of enough evidence for therapeutic benefit;
Commercially available drugs are subjected to vigorous clinical trials to evaluate protection and worth in the United States.
There have been efficacy of smoked marijuana for any of its potential indication, which provides evidence that that showed that marijuana was superior to control but inferior to Ondansetron in treating nausea.
There has been only one randomized, double-blind, placebo-and active-controlled trial gaging the efficacy of smoked marijuana for any of its potential indications.
Conchrane collaboration the recent reviews find insufficient evidence to support the use of smoked marijuana for a number of potential indications, including pain related to rheumatoid arthritis. Dementia, ataxia or tremor in multiple sclerosis and symptoms in HIV/AIDS.
This all evidence does not mean that components of marijuana do not have potential therapeutic effects to alleviate onerous. Hence there is no enough evidence to legalize marijuana from cannabis plant.
Heading 2The use of the marijuana drug and popularity of the same continues to gain audience among young individuals who focus on its use as beneficial to health rather than harmful. The cannabis plant is indigenous to Asia, but is currently used the word over the increasing numbers among individuals who use the drug has basis on continued protests from the public displaying the estimated impact of marijuana liberalizations on marijuana and other substance use, driving under the influence, healthy behaviors, driving safety, the ease of obtaining various substances, illness and perceived self-esteem, friends’ substance use, friends’ disapproval of substance use or DUI, self-reported criminal behavior, perceived riskiness of substance use, and
disapproval of substance use.
Heading 3While we provide no evidence here for why the policy changes have not had more
substantial impacts, we speculate briefly on the underlying explanation. The most obvious
hypothesis is that, despite substantial resources devoted to enforcement, marijuana laws
exert only minor impact on use, so removal of these laws merely ratifies de jure what is
Marijuana advocates have had some success peddling the notion that marijuana is a “soft” drug, similar to alcohol, and fundamentally different formulated similarly; but as the experience of nearly every culture, over the thousands of years of human history, demonstrates, alcohol is different. Nearly every culture has its own alcoholic preparations, and nearly all have successfully regulated alcohol consumption through cultural norms. The same cannot be said of marijuana. There are several possible explanations for alcohol’s unique status: For most people, it is not addictive; it is rarely consumed to the point of intoxication; low-level consumption is consistent with most manual and intellectual tasks; it has several positive health benefits; and it is formed by the fermentation of many common substances and easily metabolized by the body.
Heading 4Under the state scheme, she testified, there would be “tremendous profit motive for the existing black market providers to stay in the market.”42 The only way California could effectively eliminate the black market for marijuana, according to Dr. Pacula, “is to take away the substantial profits in the market and allow the price of marijuana to fall to an amount close to the cost of production. Doing so, however, will mean substantially smaller tax revenue than currently anticipated from this change in policy.”
Heading 5The chemical effect of marijuana is to take away ambition. The social effect is to provide an escape from challenges and responsibilities with a like-minded group of teenagers who are doing the same thing. Using marijuana creates losers. At a time when we’re concerned about our lack of academic achievement relative to other countries, legalizing marijuana will be disastrous.
Heading 6Today, marijuana trafficking is linked to a variety of crimes, from assault and murder to money laundering and smuggling. Legalization of marijuana would increase demand for the drug and almost certainly exacerbate drug-related crime, as well as cause a myriad of unintended but predictable consequences. To begin with, an astonishingly high percentage of criminals are marijuana users. According to a study by the RAND Corporation, approximately 60 percent of arrestees test positive for marijuana use in the United States, England, and Australia. Further, marijuana metabolites are found in arrestees’ urine more frequently than those of any other drugs.
Heading 7In addition to its direct effects on individual health, even moderate marijuana use imposes significant long-term costs through the ways that it affects individual users. Marijuana use is associated with cognitive difficulties and influences attention, concentration, and short-term memory. This damage affects drug users’ ability to work and can put others at risk. Even if critical workers—for example, police officers, airline pilots, and machine operators—used marijuana recreationally but remained sober on the job, the long-term cognitive deficiency that remained from regular drug use would sap productivity and place countless people in danger. Increased use would also send health care costs skyrocketing—costs borne not just by individual users, but also by the entire society.
