my abstract on legalizing it
well i have to do a ten page paper on this and an abstract is just a brief summary of your main points. it went longer than expected and had some key poinjts left out to meet the length maximum so i dont think the paper will be too hard. this is fairly long so i have warned you it will take 5 minutes or so maybe to read. but for those who want to. and i have taken off all the sources in case any cheaters out there felt like stealing it, although you could still easily and just p[lug in fake sources.
any how
Ignorance and hysteria. Those are the things that led to the criminalization of cannabis. In 1930, Harry J. Anslinger, then head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics began an anti marijuana information (it has since been proven to be very inaccurate and in many cases totally false information) campaign saying marijuana was ??killer drug in which lurks murder, insanity and death.? This led a heavy and burdensome tax on the drug, which eventually led to its disappearance from legitimate society.
??It is a dangerous drug. Marijuana is an addictive drug. It is a harmful drug that is classified as illegal and (the Drug Free America Foundation) doesn??t see anything good that can come from legalizing it.? Stubbornness. Refusal to admit a mistake has been made. That is what is keeping it illegal. The facts are in on this one. Marijuana is not harmful. It is not addictive. It does have medicinal value. It is a far safer drug than the legal recreational drugs of alcohol and tobacco and it is safer than the chemically manufactured pharmaceuticals to which it is an alternative. On top of all that it is less addictive than a morning cup of coffee. Virtually all unbiased research has proven as much. There is no reason that can??t be easily proven wrong for marijuana to remain illegal for medicinal or recreational use. Add to that the few bad things that come from it, such as the black market and easy access to children are a direct result of it being illegal; there is only one logical solution. Make it legal.
It is almost as physically addictive as cocaine. It is the direct result of fifty thousand deaths a year in the United States alone and countless more indirectly. It has torn apart families and ruined lives. What is this menace? Marijuana? No. It is alcohol, the stuff that can be bought on just about every block in every city in America. It was made illegal once and it was a disaster. The government decided that maybe it was better to let people make their own decisions than it was to attempt to control their lives. This may also explain why tobacco is legal, which kills an estimated four-hundred thousand Americans each year and is second only to heroin in terms of physical addiction. In contrast, marijuana, not only in recent years but in the entire recorded history of man, has not been directly responsible for a single death or terminal or chronic illness and has been proven to be far less addictive than the previously mentioned substances.
Before Anslinger??s propaganda campaign, cannabis was a fairly common medicine used by doctors. It was used at that time mainly to treat chronic pain, but research since then has shown its healing value extends far beyond that. Many patients in the few states allowing medicinal marijuana have testified that it is not only more effective than the strong pain killers they had previously received, it also left them more alert and less groggy than the pills they had been taking. Coupled that with the fact that the opiates which are used in painkillers have a much higher risk of overdose(being that you cant overdose on cannabis) and have a far greater addiction potential, it is easy to see that negative health effects are not the reason it remains a schedule I drug classified as having no medicinal value in most states. What is much more likely is that legalization for medicinal purposes would have an incredible impact on the pharmaceutical industry. ??If it can be used in the ADD market alone, it would have a definite impact on the 1 billion dollar a year sales for traditional ADD medicines (amphetamines). Multiply those by the tens of medical diagnoses that are effectively treated by cannabis, for example chronic pain, which amounts to far more money than ADD treatment in itself, and it is easy to see the industry would suffer.?-Claudia Jensen, pharmacist and physican who has researched and experimented with cannabis as ADD treatment??put quote in better context, provide more background over a few pages
According to the editors of the British medical journal Lancet, ??The smoking of cannabis, even long term, is not harmful to health. Leaving politics aside, where is the harm in decriminalizing cannabis? There is none to the health of consumers.? People need to throw out what they have heard politicians, interest groups, or television commercials say and spend a little time doing there own research. The fact is marijuana isn??t harmful and keeping it illegal is what creates the real problems associated with it. Studies and interviews with teens have said they can get marijuana far easier than alcohol. This is a direct result of the black market, so people need to stop pretending keeping it legal is protecting children. From a health standpoint it is harmless. From an addiction standpoint it is as addictive as a chocolate chip cookie and nothing more. From a medical standpoint it is a near miracle. Keeping it illegal is about money and control, nothing more, nothing less.
my abstract on legalizing it
my abstract on legalizing it
