Marijuanas Legalization

It is interesting to observe that, even as American attitudes regarding marijuana usage have significantly relaxed in recent decades, debate still rages as to legalizing the substance on a national level. While certain states have already so altered marijuana's former criminal status, others remain reluctant, and this reinforces the divisiveness...

Marijuana has been an age-old form of treatment for an array of medical ailments. However, in the early 20th century, the rise of other drugs, including aspirin and barbiturates, began to be prescribed more prevalently than marijuana as a medical remedy/treatment (Steve, 30). While replacements such as these were often...

There are various entities in the social and economic life whose regulation and control presents various challenges to the concerned authorities. This is because these perspectives present conflicting interests from various parties in the affected industry. The use of marijuana in Colorado is one of the aspects that has been...

The legalization of Marijuana is a controversial issue in many parts of the world. Policy makers, Health care providers, and society at large see it as a substance which erodes the morals of a society. Some of the states in the United States accept the use of marijuana for medical...

There are many arguments over the legalization of marijuana that have scientific, social and cultural significance. While some like Miron argue that “the drug comes with a long list of negative side effects,” (5) others, including Caulkins et al claim the drug may be no more damaging than alcohol, and,...

In 2012, the citizens of Washington elected to legalize marijuana. In fact, Washington is expected have stores that are dedicated to the sale of marijuana by the end of 2014 . Therefore, it can be expected that the economical and societal impacts will be tremendous for the state as a...

Marijuana was once a controversial issue. Today it is less shocking with some states changing the law to decriminalize, allow for medicinal sales and even legalizing recreational use, such as Washington and Colorado. In most states it still remains against the law. Where marijuana led to arrests and the state...

Introduction The world we live today is full of drug culture. Swift stated that “the society we live in has already accepted smoking of cigarette and consumption of alcohol” (342). The same case is happening to smoking of marijuana. Marijuana is cannabis and has positive and also negative impacts to...

Marijuana in America has become a major issue. Some argue that marijuana is a dangerous drug that should be criminalized accordingly. Others argue that marijuana is no more harmful than alcohol or cigarettes, and aside from that, is a personal choice that should not be regulated by the government. In...

The origins of New York’s newly legislated Medical Marijuana Law date back over 20 years ago when previous New York State Governors have advocated for the legalization of Marijuana. However only recently has there been sufficient support to successfully pass the bill through the New York state senate (McKinley, 2014)....

The article starts off with an introduction to William Breathes, a connoisseur of weed the way other people are connoisseur’s of fine wines. Starting the article off in this way enables the writer to talk about how commonplace smoking weed is in Colorado, so much so that Breathes’ boss pays...