Marijuana is the most commonly use illicit drug in the United States. You may have heard it called pot, weed, grass, ganja or skunk, but marijuana by any other name is still a drug that affects the brain. It makes others more aware of their physical sensations, and it has still more effects on other...

What is Marijuana? Marijuana is a preparation made of the buds and leaves of the hemp plant, used recreationally and medically and, today, is usually consumed orally or by inhalation in smoking or vaporization. Marijuana or cannabis contains mildly psychedelic (hallucinogenic) and other psycho...

My team and I believe that legalizing marijuana would be a good idea. It would lower violence, help the government, and would be used in modern medicine. The first point that my team and I would like to make is the positives to legalizing marijuana. If marijuana was legalized, we believe t...

Today's common tasks can be hard on a person. Anything can cause stress in our lives, and many have founded ways to cope with it. The solution to their stress is marijuana. There is no exact date when cannabis, the plant that marijuana came from, came to the United States. &quo...

Marijuana is the most widely used illegal drug in America today. However it is the least understood. Not until about the 1960\'s did many people know about marijuana and the harm it causes. Marijuana is a green, brown and gray mixture of dry shredded leaves from the hemp plant (Cannabis Sativa). Mar...

Marijuana has many nicknames: sess, pot, dope, weed, green, boom, Mary Jane, herb, buds, grass, chronic, ganja, and trees. Marijuana comes from the flowers, buds, and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis. Smoking marijuana is almost as common as seeing someone smoking a cigarette. Some smoke marijuana ...

Tom N. My old roommate use to tell me "everyone smokes pot at some point in their life". I've smoked pot with a 33 year-old mother of two outside a wedding reception and with a 14 year-old girl and her father. So what is this magical drug that makes everyone seem to enjoy life so much? Throu...

If you are a hopeless patient and fighting severe pain due to illness, you would probably favor using marijuana for pain relief. Legalizing the medical marijuana is one of the most controversial issues in today\'s society. Marijuana or cannabis is widely used around the world. It causes hallucina...

Has the time come to legalize marijuana? Marijuana has been known to man for quite some time now and has been used for centuries. The Marijuana prohibition has been in effect since 1937 and continues today. The real question is, is it time that we as Americans reconsid...

Marijuana is the most common drug used in the world. Because it is the least dangerous drug, most curious people will start off with marijuana first before attempting to do other drugs. Marijuana is made with dried leaves and flowering tops of an Indian hemp plant cannabis sativa. People use mar...

Against the legalization of marijuana Should marijuana be legalized? Whether you smoke or not, you probably still have an opinion. It is sufficiently obvious that marijuana is a threat to our society morally and physically. Its use leads to the use of "harder" and more dangerous drugs, ...

In society today, there are many serious diseases that plague nations all across the world. Diseases like Glaucoma, Epilepsy, Parkinson's disease, and migraine headaches. What do all of these serious illnesses have in common? Every one of theses sicknesses can be cured or helped by ...

Marijuana, the crude drug made from the leaves and flowering tops of the cannabis sativa plant, contains hundreds of active chemicals. Of the 421 chemicals identified in the plant, 70 are cannabinoids (chemicals found only in the marijuana plant and nowhere else in nature). Cannabinoids are sto...

Has the time come to legalize marijuana? Marijuana has been known to man for quite some time now and has been used for centuries. The Marijuana prohibition has been in effect since 1937 and continues today. The real question is, is it time that we as Americans reconsider ...

People have been using marijuana (also known as cannabis) as a medicine for thousands of years, beginning in China, India, and the Middle East. Marijuana has beneficial effects when used in medicinal scenarios for the treatment of pain; thus it should be an administered drug for patients who can ben...

Weeding Through the Debate: Should Medicinal Marijuana be Legal?Legalize Marijuana for Medicinal Purposes The debate is hot. Each side has its argument and is ready to fire away with statistics andfacts. Should marijuana be legalized for medicinal purposes? Is marijuana actually safe for ...

Say No to Marijuana LegalizationMarijuana also known as cannabis sativa is being used illegally by many Americans today of all ages. Before the 1960s, many Americans had never heard of marijuana, but today it is the most used illegal drug in this country. All types of marijuana are mind-altering dr...

Marijuana Marijuana is a preparation of dried, shredded leaves from the Indian hemp plant Cannabis sativa, which means "useful hemp". Preparations made from Cannabis include marijuana, the dried plant material; hashish, the dried resin from the flowers and associated leaves; and hash ...

One of the most popular and excessively used drugs in our day and age is the drug marijuana. Up until 1937, marijuana, also known as Cannabis sativa, was legal in the United States for all purposes. Now since then, marijuana hasn't been so accepting in our country. Cannabis sativa was banned with...

Marijuana is an illegal drug with many medical uses and should be made legal for those patients who need it. There are many valuable medical uses for marijuana not recognized by the Federal Government. Though some states have legalized its use for patients with the permission of their physician, ...

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Should Marijuana Be LegalThis is a topic that has become a bit of concern amongst people in the past few years. Marijuana has been illegal since the early 1900's, but lately scientists have figured out that there are some uses of marijuana that could benefit people in need, people who are sick of d...

The Legalization of Marijuana as a MedicineImagine if one of your loved ones was suffering from a very painful, lethal disease such as cancer. There is a substance that can relieve their pain, but due to a law instituted several decades ago declaring that substance illegal they will be forced to suf...

In a speech to the Illinois House of Representatives, on December 18, 1840, Abraham Lincoln said,"Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by ...