crippledguy
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Medical Marijuana
The legalization of medical marijuana is one of the most controversial issues of the 20th century. Marijuana has plenty of advantages and disadvantages to its use. To this year 2008, thirteen states have legalized marijuana for medical use under specific state laws. The federal government wont let down as their century long campaign against growing, cultivation, selling, recreational and medical uses of marijuana. Even if medical marijuana was legalized, the country and its people will face plenty of issues with this drug. Either way you look at this century long battle between the People, States and federal governments, individuals will do as they please, whether or not marijuana is legal or not!
Marijuana as called cannabis, ganja, weed, reefer, grass, chronic, sticky icky, smoke, greens, has been in our world for over ten thousand of years. Marijuana is somewhat like our own species. Not one marijuana plant is identical to the other, whether it has the same genetics or not. Its sizes range from less than a foot to 20 feet. The color of marijuana can be seen in every color of the spectrum, if seen at the right time of its growth. There are four major marijuana plant including cannabis sativa, cannabis Indica, cannabis Ruderalis and cannabis Afganica. Humans used nearly every part of the Cannabis plant, using the excess leafs trimmings to make hashish, saving their stem to make a wide assortments of hashish including, ice-o-lator, butane, bubble, Isopropyl and finger hash. They use the flower/bud of the cannabis plant to smoke. If the smoke is too harsh for some individual than making cannabis butter or oil will help the individual make numerous edible dishes and that have the same effect as smoking it. Some say that the cannabis plant is one of the most complex plants out there; it grows in almost every part of the world , under almost any conditions. Whether the cannabis plant was grown outdoors organically, hydroponically indoors or in a greenhouse it truly helps those who depend on it.
The first trace of marijuana was in China around 6000 BC. They use the marijuana seed for cooking and foods in their culture. China was the first country to use the marijuana plant to make hemp and to use as medicine. Its surprising when you think that unlike most plants that the cannabis plant provided drugs, hemp and a dozen of products. These sophisticated Chinese people used hemp for making textiles, rope, paper basically everything you could image was made out of the Cannabis plant.
Since cannabis was founded around 10,000 years ago it has been used in many ways, but the recreational and medical purposes are the true importance of marijuana. Medical marijuana eases thousands yearly suffering from glaucoma, muscle spasticity, movement disorders, Hunting disease and a variety of pain syndromes. Marijuana reduces vomiting and nausea, it relieves depression, increases appetite and helps with AIDS. Despite marijuanas medical benefits the Drug Enforcement Administration classifies marijuana as a prohibited schedule one drug, stating marijuana is not acceptable for medical use. But seriously ill patients cant make it through years without this healing drug. Whether the patients live in a state where marijuana is legal for medical use or a state at which its not legal, patients will commonly get denied their prescription of marijuana meaning that their physicians recommend them prescription pain killers. This ridiculous idea causes the patients to end up killing their self because the pain is too much to bear. Over 100,000 Californians depend on medical marijuana to live and over 1,000,000 Americans. Patients are being tortured by the federal government because of the medication they depend on. Why wont this country notice what its doing to its own civilians? Seventy percent of the public supports medical marijuana. Its just not the patients that the Federal government is going after its, the patients, doctors, providers, care-givers, manufacturers and Public Health Services. So far thirteen states in the USA have allowed patients to possess marijuana for medical use, with a physicians recommendation, but possession still remains illegal under federal law. Since marijuana remains illegal under federal laws, its source remains on the black market. First and foremost marijuana, for any use, is illegal under federal law. The Controlled Substance Act that was enacted into law by the Congress of the United States and is the legal basis by which the manufacture, importation, possession, and distribution of certain drugs are regulated by the federal government.
At the beginning of 1978, states started responding to pleas from the seriously ill for legal access to medical marijuana. Thirty four states have enacted in laws which recognizes marijuanas medical values. Most of these states gathered their own specific state laws that gave patients the right to purchase, cultivate, and carry medical marijuana. California passed Proposal 215 in the year of 1996 which gave in need patients the right to possess and cultivate marijuana for personal use and of course with a doctors recommendation. In Oakland, California they recently passed Measure Z where in the city of Oakland police and authorities make marijuana the lowest law enforcement policy, they tolerate private adult sales and production, and the State legislation enables local option to tax and regulate. In Maine on April 1, 2002, LD 611 doubled the amount of usable marijuana a patient may possess, from 1.25 ounces to 2.5 ounces. The bill also clarified protections for patients and caregivers, explicitly providing them with an affirmative defense against charges of unlawfully growing, possessing, or using marijuana. The main focus here is that these states are only doing the right thing and abiding to the 9th Amendment where people have to right to seek health.
The federal government regulates drugs through the Controlled Substances Act, which does not recognize the difference between medical and recreational use of marijuana. These laws are generally applied only against people who possess, cultivate, or distribute large quantities of marijuana. But as stated before the FEDs and DEA hate marijuana more than any other drug and marijuana is treated just like any other drug including heroin and cocaine. Also the federal government sees marijuana as a highly addictive drug and no medical value. Thats why the federal government place marijuana into schedule 1 of the Controlled Substance Act. So under basically under any circumstance in some situation the DEA is able to throw innocent people into jail for their own believes to seeking health. Through-out the past years since Proposition 215 came into play the DEA and FED are still cramming down medical marijuana dispensaries, patients and doctor and busting them every day.
We all know that people think and remember differently while under the influence of cannabis. People who are high have shown obvious problems concentrating, attending to specific details, performing two actions at once, etc. These problems grow worse the higher doses of marijuana and the more complicated tasks. Some studies have shown that marijuana intoxication impairs the ability to react quickly, alerts some aspects of thought and memory. But a recent study showed that smoking cannabis does not produce major changes in general cognitive abilities like intelligence, memory, and the ability to learn! Its a possibility that your simple reaction time, disinhibition and vigilance will be affected. While your perception, arithmetic and recall will probably be affected. The only disparity between chronic users and nonusers emphasizes a key point about participants. People who choose to smoke marijuana daily for an abundant amount of years may be different from those who dont use it daily or at all. These differences may have been present long before they even started using cannabis.
What does America benefit from this war on marijuana? Well if marijuana was legal America would see a dramatic change in the crowding of jails. Right now there are 200,000 people in prison for marijuana. 750,000 Americans were arrested last year for marijuana. A staggering 88 percent of those arrests are simple possessions. The Criminal Justice Industry is based on arrests and catching criminal involving marijuana. So if marijuana was decriminalized eight percent of their budgets would go down the drain! The marijuana war cause the federal and state governments around 30 billion dollars a year. Why do you think that the federal government hates marijuana more than any other drug? Because its the most commonly used drug and is where the money is. America would see more tax income due to the fact that people wouldnt have to be paying states for their marijuana charges. A huge thing America would notice would be a remarkable decrease in crime.
To this day cannabis remains the most widely consumed illicit drug in the United
States. More than 250 million report of smoking cannabis yearly. But it seems that
right now at this time and the world humans live in, the government just wont
budge when it comes to the total legalization of marijuana. The federal government
hasnt taken a step down the latter since 1968, when Richard Nixon clarified that
Marijuana was illegal. Does America need the federal government to legalize
marijuana or will the people of the United States end the war on drug? In 1937,
when a tax stamp was put on marijuana 55,000 users got busted per year. In
2007, 730,000 people were arrested. Thats 13 times the users than in 1937. So
by 2020, there should approximately be just as many users of marijuana than the
number of Americans. That shows, as suspected, that in this world and life we live,
the individuals that we are, the rights that we have, people will do as they please
whether or not its legal.
let me know what you think!
CRIPPLED
The legalization of medical marijuana is one of the most controversial issues of the 20th century. Marijuana has plenty of advantages and disadvantages to its use. To this year 2008, thirteen states have legalized marijuana for medical use under specific state laws. The federal government wont let down as their century long campaign against growing, cultivation, selling, recreational and medical uses of marijuana. Even if medical marijuana was legalized, the country and its people will face plenty of issues with this drug. Either way you look at this century long battle between the People, States and federal governments, individuals will do as they please, whether or not marijuana is legal or not!
Marijuana as called cannabis, ganja, weed, reefer, grass, chronic, sticky icky, smoke, greens, has been in our world for over ten thousand of years. Marijuana is somewhat like our own species. Not one marijuana plant is identical to the other, whether it has the same genetics or not. Its sizes range from less than a foot to 20 feet. The color of marijuana can be seen in every color of the spectrum, if seen at the right time of its growth. There are four major marijuana plant including cannabis sativa, cannabis Indica, cannabis Ruderalis and cannabis Afganica. Humans used nearly every part of the Cannabis plant, using the excess leafs trimmings to make hashish, saving their stem to make a wide assortments of hashish including, ice-o-lator, butane, bubble, Isopropyl and finger hash. They use the flower/bud of the cannabis plant to smoke. If the smoke is too harsh for some individual than making cannabis butter or oil will help the individual make numerous edible dishes and that have the same effect as smoking it. Some say that the cannabis plant is one of the most complex plants out there; it grows in almost every part of the world , under almost any conditions. Whether the cannabis plant was grown outdoors organically, hydroponically indoors or in a greenhouse it truly helps those who depend on it.
The first trace of marijuana was in China around 6000 BC. They use the marijuana seed for cooking and foods in their culture. China was the first country to use the marijuana plant to make hemp and to use as medicine. Its surprising when you think that unlike most plants that the cannabis plant provided drugs, hemp and a dozen of products. These sophisticated Chinese people used hemp for making textiles, rope, paper basically everything you could image was made out of the Cannabis plant.
Since cannabis was founded around 10,000 years ago it has been used in many ways, but the recreational and medical purposes are the true importance of marijuana. Medical marijuana eases thousands yearly suffering from glaucoma, muscle spasticity, movement disorders, Hunting disease and a variety of pain syndromes. Marijuana reduces vomiting and nausea, it relieves depression, increases appetite and helps with AIDS. Despite marijuanas medical benefits the Drug Enforcement Administration classifies marijuana as a prohibited schedule one drug, stating marijuana is not acceptable for medical use. But seriously ill patients cant make it through years without this healing drug. Whether the patients live in a state where marijuana is legal for medical use or a state at which its not legal, patients will commonly get denied their prescription of marijuana meaning that their physicians recommend them prescription pain killers. This ridiculous idea causes the patients to end up killing their self because the pain is too much to bear. Over 100,000 Californians depend on medical marijuana to live and over 1,000,000 Americans. Patients are being tortured by the federal government because of the medication they depend on. Why wont this country notice what its doing to its own civilians? Seventy percent of the public supports medical marijuana. Its just not the patients that the Federal government is going after its, the patients, doctors, providers, care-givers, manufacturers and Public Health Services. So far thirteen states in the USA have allowed patients to possess marijuana for medical use, with a physicians recommendation, but possession still remains illegal under federal law. Since marijuana remains illegal under federal laws, its source remains on the black market. First and foremost marijuana, for any use, is illegal under federal law. The Controlled Substance Act that was enacted into law by the Congress of the United States and is the legal basis by which the manufacture, importation, possession, and distribution of certain drugs are regulated by the federal government.
At the beginning of 1978, states started responding to pleas from the seriously ill for legal access to medical marijuana. Thirty four states have enacted in laws which recognizes marijuanas medical values. Most of these states gathered their own specific state laws that gave patients the right to purchase, cultivate, and carry medical marijuana. California passed Proposal 215 in the year of 1996 which gave in need patients the right to possess and cultivate marijuana for personal use and of course with a doctors recommendation. In Oakland, California they recently passed Measure Z where in the city of Oakland police and authorities make marijuana the lowest law enforcement policy, they tolerate private adult sales and production, and the State legislation enables local option to tax and regulate. In Maine on April 1, 2002, LD 611 doubled the amount of usable marijuana a patient may possess, from 1.25 ounces to 2.5 ounces. The bill also clarified protections for patients and caregivers, explicitly providing them with an affirmative defense against charges of unlawfully growing, possessing, or using marijuana. The main focus here is that these states are only doing the right thing and abiding to the 9th Amendment where people have to right to seek health.
The federal government regulates drugs through the Controlled Substances Act, which does not recognize the difference between medical and recreational use of marijuana. These laws are generally applied only against people who possess, cultivate, or distribute large quantities of marijuana. But as stated before the FEDs and DEA hate marijuana more than any other drug and marijuana is treated just like any other drug including heroin and cocaine. Also the federal government sees marijuana as a highly addictive drug and no medical value. Thats why the federal government place marijuana into schedule 1 of the Controlled Substance Act. So under basically under any circumstance in some situation the DEA is able to throw innocent people into jail for their own believes to seeking health. Through-out the past years since Proposition 215 came into play the DEA and FED are still cramming down medical marijuana dispensaries, patients and doctor and busting them every day.
We all know that people think and remember differently while under the influence of cannabis. People who are high have shown obvious problems concentrating, attending to specific details, performing two actions at once, etc. These problems grow worse the higher doses of marijuana and the more complicated tasks. Some studies have shown that marijuana intoxication impairs the ability to react quickly, alerts some aspects of thought and memory. But a recent study showed that smoking cannabis does not produce major changes in general cognitive abilities like intelligence, memory, and the ability to learn! Its a possibility that your simple reaction time, disinhibition and vigilance will be affected. While your perception, arithmetic and recall will probably be affected. The only disparity between chronic users and nonusers emphasizes a key point about participants. People who choose to smoke marijuana daily for an abundant amount of years may be different from those who dont use it daily or at all. These differences may have been present long before they even started using cannabis.
What does America benefit from this war on marijuana? Well if marijuana was legal America would see a dramatic change in the crowding of jails. Right now there are 200,000 people in prison for marijuana. 750,000 Americans were arrested last year for marijuana. A staggering 88 percent of those arrests are simple possessions. The Criminal Justice Industry is based on arrests and catching criminal involving marijuana. So if marijuana was decriminalized eight percent of their budgets would go down the drain! The marijuana war cause the federal and state governments around 30 billion dollars a year. Why do you think that the federal government hates marijuana more than any other drug? Because its the most commonly used drug and is where the money is. America would see more tax income due to the fact that people wouldnt have to be paying states for their marijuana charges. A huge thing America would notice would be a remarkable decrease in crime.
To this day cannabis remains the most widely consumed illicit drug in the United
States. More than 250 million report of smoking cannabis yearly. But it seems that
right now at this time and the world humans live in, the government just wont
budge when it comes to the total legalization of marijuana. The federal government
hasnt taken a step down the latter since 1968, when Richard Nixon clarified that
Marijuana was illegal. Does America need the federal government to legalize
marijuana or will the people of the United States end the war on drug? In 1937,
when a tax stamp was put on marijuana 55,000 users got busted per year. In
2007, 730,000 people were arrested. Thats 13 times the users than in 1937. So
by 2020, there should approximately be just as many users of marijuana than the
number of Americans. That shows, as suspected, that in this world and life we live,
the individuals that we are, the rights that we have, people will do as they please
whether or not its legal.
let me know what you think!
CRIPPLED
