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- The purpose of this paper is to discuss marijuana and compare both
- sides of the issue of legalizing marijuana. We have two factions fighting each other ; one
- those who are pro marijuana and those who are anti marijuana. These two factions have been
- fighting on this issue on the halls of justice for years.
- Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS
- Care, National Lymphoma Foundation argue that marijuana should be legalized in order to
- treat terminally ill patients. Among them are AIDS victims who find that marijuana
- stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous emaciation; glaucoma sufferers who
- have used marijuana said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for
- whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes
- makes lifesaving treatment impossible.
- Due to all these lobbying groups which show substantial evidence that
- marijuana can be used as a prescribed drug. Also many advocates who are pro marijuana
- complain that morphine and cocaine are legal and are very dangerous drugs, that brings up
- the question why not legalize marijuana as medical drug which is proven to be less
- dangerous than cocaine and morphine. Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California , council
- committee unanimously voted to urge president Bill Clinton and congress to end federal
- restrictions against the use of marijuana for " legitiment medical use." City council women
- Christine kehoe said she wanted the city of San Diego "to go on the record we support the
- medical use marijuana.; marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS,
- glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis. ''
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- Many agencies which are anti marijuana such as Drug Enforcement Agency
- and police departments argue that marijuana shouldn't be legalized. These agencies believe
- that marijuana shouldn't be legalized because if marijuana is to become legal then thousands
- more patients using marijuana. Then people will raise the question why marijuana illegal
- at all if its a medicine.
- The main reason why the Drug Enforcement Agency doesn't want marijuana
- to be legal is because their is no hard core evidence that proves that marijuana is a effective
- drug as a medicine. In twenty years of research have produced no reliable scientific proof
- that marijuana has medical value. The American Cancer Society , American Glaucoma
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- National Multiple Sclerosis, the American Academy of Ophthalmology , or the American
- Medical Association , say that their is no evidence that marijuana is a medicine.
- The agencies also argues that no other drug prescribed is smoked
- and that knew findings show that marijuana is acutely harmful to AIDS, Cancer patients
- because the active ingredient in marijuana acutely reduces the the bodies white blood cells
- which fight off infection. The Drug Enforcement Agency along with police departments all
- over the United States believe, with the legalization of drugs crime will increase due to a
- higher increase of pot users which will eventually become addicts and will still or kill in order
- to get their drugs.
- These are the main points and reasons why the Drug named marijuana shouldn't be legalized
- in the United States of America.
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- Seeing booth sides of the issue I come to a conclusion that marijuana
- should be legalized in order to help people suffering from terminal diseases such as AIDS,
- Cancer
- and Glaucoma. Prohibition of marijuana over the past decades hasn't deminshed the demand
- of the drug in the United States. The use of marijuana has acutely went up due to the mass
- attention given to marijuana by rappers such as Cypress Hill who promote the use of
- marijuana as a social drug. But I believe that marijuana is here to stay in our society and is
- only going through the stages that alcohol had during the prohibition era.
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- Marijuana will become legal due to the knew administration which is liberal and
- who's leader , president Bill Clinton who had acutely used marijuana during the nineteen
- sixties. Due to all these factors marijuana will become more widely accepted by the
- American people who will pressure congress to rewrite the laws on the drug marijuana. Now
- its only a matter of time before lobbying groups pressure the legislature to legalize it. Due to
- legalization many states will be able to grow marijuana as a cash crop, and the United States
- government will be able to tax marijuana and make revenue off it. The revenue made from
- marijuana will be in the millions which can be used for drug rehabs and anti drug programs
- targeted at elementary children. Still by seeing both sides of the issue I'm still
- one hundred percent pro marijuana because I use it socially and I believe its less harmful than
- beer or liquor because with marijuana you can't overdose.
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- THE
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- ALFONSO A VALDE
- POL SCI 150
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