...when this topic is brought up, so many mixed emotions are heard, felt, and even seen. On one side they say that legalizing illegal immigrants can help boost the economy and even complement the U.S workforce. On the other, they say that legalization will only entice more foreigners to cross the border illegally. Whatever the opinion, this is an important issue that has been brought up for a long time and no definitive solution has been implemented. This issue is one that makes you wonder whether legalizing immigrants would be good, bad or the impact it would have on the economy. The legalization of illegal immigrants might take a long time, but when it happens, many good things can come from this. Many families will be brought together instead of being torn apart. Those that have special work skills will be able to find a job in their specialty. Millions of people will be able to file taxes. Many young adults will have the ability to go to college and develop skills that will help this country go forward. People won’t have to do anything in secrecy; they will have the ability to do almost anything freely. Many good things can come from this legalization, but the question that remains is when? There are many people who argue that the legalization process is a bad idea. One of the biggest worries is that once they are legalized they will become eligible for all the benefits a citizen is eligible for. Another worry is that they would become competition for the natural born citizens...
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...There is always a great debate, for many years, on if marijuana should be legalized for all purposes, to include medical and recreational. The question should lie as to what is the actual harm that comes from making the drug legal. Why not legalize the drug and place a tax, just like the tax occurred on tobacco. In the 1890’s, marijuana/hemp was replacing the cotton plantations and it was a major cash crop in the southern states. The product was being placed in some prescriptions; it was even listed on the United States Pharmacopeia from 1850 until 1942. During this time, using marijuana for recreational use was not illegal. In the 1950s it was an accessory of the beat generation; in the 1960s it was used by college students and "hippies" and became a symbol of rebellion against authority. It was being used by musicians and the people in show business. During this time clubs were opening in most major cities and these were tolerated by the community because the patrons did not disrupt after using the drug. The government has tried to use criminal penalties to prevent marijuana use for over 75 years and still to this day marijuana is now used by over 25 million people annually. Now that Colorado and Washington have legalized use and possession of marijuana and 20 states have legalized its medical uses, many people, including virtually everyone who has studied the matter, hope that other states will also legalize and ultimately force the federal government to repeal...
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...PHI-105 Critical Thinking Legalization of Marijuana There has not been one marijuana induced death reported to the U.S Center for Disease Control, yet every year approximately 79,000 deaths are reported for alcohol induced deaths. (CDC, 2010). Alcohol is clearly more dangerous then marijuana, yet marijuana is illegal in 27 states. There are several positive arguments about this controversial subject, which will be addressed in this essay. Legalizing marijuana in the United States would benefit citizens with certain medical conditions, stimulate the economy, and reduce drug related crimes. Even though marijuana is considered a Schedule I controlled substance, meaning it has no accepted medical use, it would still benefit many citizens in the United States with certain medical conditions if it were legalized. Currently 23 States have legalized the medical use of marijuana, as well as DC. (Carter, 2008). Using marijuana as a safe an effective treatment option for citizens who have cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma pain, epilepsy, and asthma provides benefits that cannot be found using anything else. (Carter, 2008).. It doesn’t have debilitating side effects and it gives a relaxing effect which lowers anxiety, reduces nausea and pain, and enlarges and relaxes the bronchial passage. It has been said that marijuana is psychologically addictive which is why it is so important to understand the medical benefits that marijuana offers. Any time something...
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...Legalize It! John G. Krape JR COM/156 June 19, 2011 Lugene Rosen Legalize It! The legalization of marijuana would not hurt the country, but it would benefit it in many ways. Alcohol and tobacco are legal although they are more harmful than marijuana, which can be used to raise revenue, decrease the crime rate, and help heal the sick. Marijuana, or cannabis, has many positives much good can come from it being legal. Some of the main positives of legalizing marijuana include raising revenue for the country as a whole, decreasing the crime rate and number of prisoners, and it can be used as a cheap way for people to self-medicate. As with everything where there are positives there are negatives. Some negatives that could be argued would include how the government would control it, what to do with prisoners who were arrested prior to the legalization, and what kind of damage long term use could cause. The benefits of legalizing cannabis outweigh the negative side of it, like raising the revenue and economy of this country. One reason why marijuana should be legalized is that it can raise the revenue and economy of this country tenfold in a short period of time. People do not just start doing something because it becomes available in mass quantities with no prosecution. Marijuana can be grown by companies, like Phillip Morris a cigarette company, and taxed by the government. A high tax should be put on the product of course, making enjoying it a rare occasion. Alcohol and...
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...Legalization of Marijuana While legalizing marijuana is politically risky, by that the government has even looked into this issue and they still believe it shouldn’t be legalized. Many to manage pain, so it should be legalized use it. Patients whose backs are broken, and those who experience pain every day, from certain injuries, feel much better after using it. Medicines prescribed by doctors, are sometimes expensive, and at times they don’t help the patients. When a patient is on medical marijuana, it alleviates pain and it makes them feel at ease. According to the Los Angeles Times, a Dr. Donald Abrams claims that when patients are going through chemotherapy, they tend to lose appetite. He says when they use marijuana it alleviates pain and creates an appetite. People tend to argue that marijuana doesn’t create an appetite, but it has been proven by medicalqestions.com. They say that molecules from marijuana bind with receptors from the brain to activate the hunger response. Marijuana should be legalized because there isn’t any superior incentive why it shouldn’t be legalized. Everyone has a right to do what he or she wants if it doesn’t hurt anyone, in other words freedom. If one can freely smoke cigarettes, why can’t marijuana users enjoy that too? Cigarette smokers or other non smokers might argue that, because it’s a drug marijuana smokers are not supposed to enjoy smoking freely, but cigarettes are also a drug. Has anyone ever considered that? People ought to have...
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...The legalization of marijuana has been one of the most highly debated topics of today’s society. It has the potential to be both beneficial and harmful to mankind as a whole; however, the pros of legalization far outweigh the cons. The most common argument against marijuana is that if it were to be legalized that it could have adverse health effects, especially when used in large doses; but any substance can be harmful if not taken in moderation. Why are substances such as tobacco and alcohol legal, when they all carry equal risks and benefits? Why is marijuana unfairly controlled and restricted without consideration to the facts? Cigarettes are legal yet one in ten smokers will have lung or heart related complications that have been directly linked to the tar in cigarettes by many studies, including the 2014 Surgeon Generals Report. The study details the correlation between lung and heart complications and smoking cigarettes. The possible applications for marijuana In medicine are astounding; even in the early stages of medical marijuana research, leaps and bounds are being made in pain relief and management for the sick, elderly and terminally ill. It is truly helping millions of people around the world manage a whole range of ailments. To ignore the facts about marijuana is a step back for society as a whole. Almost 25,000 different commercial and industrial products can be made from hemp/marijuana, including: milk, clothes, paper and medicine. Why is this valuable...
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...Juan T. Alborta 1401LOGIC321335A-class Heather Wilburn 10 September 2013 Pros and Cons of Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana has been debated for decades all over the world, and it still unsure what is the best option for the people, either make it legal or keep it illegal like in almost all the countries. But here I am going to explain and show you some facts of each side of the coin. For the pro side there are many aspects that show how legalizing the marijuana can bring more benefits than keep it illegal; for example, there is evidence that show how marijuana helps some illness which means is good for medical use, there is also a fact that combating the Marijuana the governments spend tons of money, and also comparing the effects and causes of marijuana to the effects and causes of alcohol and tobacco makes thoughts easier to see legalization of marijuana makes the things better; On the other hand, looking to the other side of the coin, we got this drug which causes bad things in our bodies, it has immediate bad effects right after using it, it has also long-term effects, it seems also as a gateway drug in our society. The positive side of legalize the Marijuana. It has proved that Marijuana can be used as a treatment for many illness and bad symptoms of illness; for example, for those people who has Cancer Chemotherapy treatment and causes extreme nauseas and vomiting to them, Marijuana reduces those extreme symptoms, and it also alleviates pretreatment anxiety...
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...Legalization of controlled substances in America has long been a hotly debated topic. In our ethnocentric view, we tend to think we do everything better than any other country. Truth is, banned controlled substances and the subsequent fallout are serious problems that plague every community in America. From the streets of the inner-cities, to the suburbs of the heartland, drugs are destroying lives in many ways. Wherever you find drugs, problems are sure to follow. We will examine legalization of drugs from the standpoint of three common sociological theories in an attempt to determine if it would make more sense to continue on our path of banning controlled substances or if legalization would be the key solving our problems. We, as Americans, should step away from our ethnocentric mentality and explore alternative methods to combat drugs in communities across America. Functionalist perspective, as explained in our text book, states, this perspective, “Emphasizes the way in which the parts of a society are structured to maintain its stability” (Schaefer, 2011). With that in mind, legalizing controlled substances would lead to several aspects of society being drastically changed. A counterculture of legalization would eliminate the power of drug cartels. Producing and selling our own drugs via legalization would lead to tax revenues generated from the legal sale and taxation of such substances. These tax revenues could lead to more funding in government infrastructure...
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...Winston Williams 7/2/2014 English 120 I am pleased with the way my draft is coming along so far. I have my main ideas and I’m fixed on how I want to organize these ideas and form my paper. I am pleased especially with the topic I have decided to discuss about, because I am very familiar with the subject and I’ve had a certain feeling about this topic for the past few years. I specifically want my audience to focus on the comparison between alcohol and marijuana as far as, the government implementing marijuana into the economy as alcohol. In this case, marijuana would take on the same laws and restrictions as alcohol does as far as age limit and those matters. I want my audience to give their honest opinion about my topic and how they feel about the situation. The main aspect I want to hear from people when reading my paper is what is their feel on marijuana and why do that feel that way. I believe this is an important issue in today’s society and I would love to know how people feel towards the drug. I was able to implement comments and suggestion into this draft fairly well. The suggestions people gave me were very helpful and I found out they helped me with some grammar errors I had no idea were in my paper. Marijuana is a topic of significant public discourse in the United States, and while many are familiar with the discussions, it is not always easy to find the latest, research-based information on marijuana to answer to the common questions about its health...
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...legalized? I. Expensive keeping marijuana illegal II. Drug dealers and violence reduces III. Marijuana vs. alcohol and tobacco IV. Marijuana has medical benefits References Brown, M. (2003). Legalize, Tax Marijuana to Fill Budget Gap. Retrieved from http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Legalize-tax-marijuana-to-fill-budget-gap-1121668.php. Hartney, E. (2011). Is It a Good Idea For Marijuana To Be Legalized? Retrieved from http://addictions.about.com/od/legalandethicalissues/i/Is-It-A-Good-Idea-For-Marijuana-To-Be-Legalized_2.htm. Marijuana Legalization Organization. (1999-2008). Marijuana vs. Alcohol and Tobacco. Retrieved from http://www.mjlegal.org/alctob.html. Marijuana Legalization Organization. (1999-2007). Why Should Marijuana Be Legal? Retrieved from http://www.mjlegal.org/. Marijuana Legalization Organization. (1999-2002). Why Should Marijuana Be Legal? Retrieved from http://www.mjlegal.org/essayspeech.html. Staff, G. (2010). 10 Major Health Benefits of Medical Marijuana. Retrieved from http://guyism.com/lifestyle/10-major-health-benefits-of-medical-marijuana.html. Drug...
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....“ Legalizations of Marijuana While being interview by a reporter from the New York Times Obama was quoted as saying (Seelye, 2006) “When I was a kid, I inhaled, that was the point.” As referring to when he was a young man that he had inhaled marijuana. And he became the Presidential of the United Stated. In many ways, it’s the way that some people in society has demonized the use of marijuana it, (Scheer, 1999) Eight million American have tried marijuana and report have shown that there is no proclivity to move on to harder drugs. This accorded to an 18 month study commissioned by the federal drug czar Barry R McCaffrey. We will look at the several economy impacts of decriminalizing or legalizations of marijuana. (Brown 2003) One why to assist the farmer's domestically grown marijuana is the second largest cash crop in the United States, behind only corn. The above references are from people that have no finance gain in the legalization of marijuana and the other one is the Presidential and he would not lie. (Schlosser 1998) States According to the detail of the show the numbers of people in Jail for marijuana arrest are one in every six. There are more people now in prison for marijuana offenses than for violent offenses. There are 1.1 million inmates in American prisons. And if 1 in every 6 is held because of marijuana arrests that make it about 180.000 in jail. And certainly, at a time when there's a shortage of prison space and when murderers are serving on average...
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...Legalization of Marijuana Medical and Recreational Uses Cullen Fitzsimmons ITT Technical Institute Authors Note This research is being submitted on August 17, 2015 to Hugo McPhee’s GS1145 course at ITT Technical Institute by Cullen Fitzsimmons. Abstract I decided that a very controversial subject was that of the legalization of Marijuana, both for medical and recreational use. I found that there are many health benefits to medical marijuana. There also can be many benefits to the recreational use/sale of marijuana. Like all controversial topics there cannot be positives without the negatives. Some of the negatives are accessibility to children, gateway drug and impaired driving. The legalization of marijuana has been a long debated and often heated subject. The federal government has not legalized the recreational use of Marijuana, but that did not stop four states from legalizing it with in their own borders. Through the course of this paper I tend to discuss the many pros and cons of the legalization of Marijuana. There are two main ways of legalizing marijuana; medical use and recreational use. Positives Currently there are four states and Washington D.C. that have passed the legal right to recreational marijuana, Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. Besides the medical benefits from marijuana there are also multiple reason why making it legal is a good thing. Colorado has seen a recent drop in crime rate. According to Rough (2015) “violent crime...
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...right? If not then why aren’t we already using the product and making it in mass production? Because for all of time up to this point it has been known as a drug, and not the good kind, and with this label takes on the bad reputation because of other dangerous substances with that title. I am talking about Marijuana. Just bringing up that word around certain crowds can cause quite a scene. But why? Because people are often extremely uninformed and unaware of the benefits that can come with legalizing marijuana, and often just think of it as another kind of heroin, or cocaine. Rather than being able to see if for what it truly is and what is has the potential to do. The United States as a whole is in a huge economic recession, and the legalization and taxation on marijuana can completely help us with this problem. According to statistics the cost for the war on drugs in 2010 was over $41 billion dollars. Of that amount about $8.7 billion can be attributed to marijuana. So legalizing marijuana would immediately save us $8.7 billion dollars a year enforcing existing laws. More than 5,000 people are put in jail each year on marijuana related charges, most of which are non-violent offenses. In the State of California, it costs more than $47,000 per year to incarcerate just 1 person. That’s nearly $250 million dollars a year to keep marijuana users in prison because most of those cases are simple possession cases. Not to mention that our prisons are currently exceeding their capacity...
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...Dominic Terrible 9/28/14 Essay The Effects of Legalization of Marijuana Americans have gone back and forth about whether to legalize marijuana or not , in some states this has already been done and there are pharmacies that sell medicated marijuana to patients who have glaucoma. Legalizing marijuana could solve some of the US's problems , but could also create a plethora of new ones. One of the very few pros of legalizing marijuana is that it would put most of the drug dealers out of business. Why would anyone want to go to a drug dealer when they could go straight to the store and know exactly what they're getting and most importantly know what they're doing is legal. They would also go to the stores because there would be a variety of marijuana. There would probably be all the essentials you need to smoke marijuana which would be very convenient for marijuana smokers. One of the many negatives it can cause is more fatalities with driving. In 2007 , marijuana was not legal in Colorado but pot-positive drivers accounted for 7% of total fatalities in Colorado. In 2012 Colorado legalized marijuana for usage other than just medical usage. In 2012 , pot-positive drivers accounted for 16% of total fatalities in Colorado. This is a serious problem that would only become worse if legalization happens across the US. Another negative effect is that more and more kids would start to get into smoking marijuana. We don't need preteens walking around high as a kite...
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...Paper Outline June 5, 2011 BCOM/275 I Introduction • Should the U.S. legalize marijuana? • The U.S. legalization of marijuana has been a controversial subject for many years. Proponents of legalization cite many benefits including, what they claim to be substantial increases in tax revenue, reduction in crime, and widespread medical benefits. Opponents argue that marijuana is a harmful drug that increases crime, causes more problems with health than it benefits, and would cost taxpayers more than the revenue it would bring in. II First Source Klein, J., April 2, 2009. Why legalizing marijuana makes sense. Time magizine Retrieved from: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1889021,00.html • This author expresses the many benefits of legalization, while expressing just a few valid, weak arguments for those against legalization. • This article easily answers the question for the proponents of legalization but doesn’t offer enough information to argue against it. • Evidence is sufficient for legalization • Examples cited are revelant and conclusions do add up for legalization III Second Source DuPont, R., April 20, 2010. Why we should not legalize marijuana, A CNBC special report. Retrieved from http://www.Why_We_Should_Not_Legalize_Marijuana.cnbc.com/id/36267223/ • This article supports the opponents of legalization and offers nothing for the opposing view. • Evidence is sufficient and well written for the points expressed...
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