QUOTE(Duran @ Sep 2 2005, 12:15 AM)
this is a essay I wrote when I was on probation for possesion and paraphenalia and the topic "the effects of marijuana" it ws only supposed to be 500 words. well I had to redo it becuase it wasnt what they were looking for.
President Bush created an act called the patriot act this act makes Thomas Jefferson and George Washington terrorists. They grew hemp.They never hurt anyone, they grew plants and today there considered terrorists for it, even though they helped found this country. America was based on the principle you can do whatever you want as long as you dont hurt anyone or their property.
Medicinal effects of marijuana are many.Marijuana is used to treat an array of aliments including insomnia, cancer, aids, ghonereah, depression, gluacoma, chonic pain and appetite loss. In Germany scientists gave lab rats inoperable brain tumors and found that THC cured more then half of them. No one can deny Marijuana's medicinal uses with the FDA approved marinol. but marinol is just TetraHydraCannabinol(THC) and doesnt have the other active ingredients is marijuana. Marijauna contains cannabidiol (CBD), an anti-convulsant, and cannabichromine (CBC), an anti-inflammatory. Marinol is also very costly at $30 a pill costing $35,000 a year and for people with serious medical conditions they cant afford this. Many patients prefer smoking a marijuana cigarette to marinol which takes 2-4 hours to start working and if your vommiting you can keep a pill down that long. Marinol is also very phsycoactive. Surveys have concluded 80% of Americans Support Medicinal Marijuana. Marijuana is not physiclly addictive only mentally, symptoms are mild and few restlessness, irritability, mild agitation and sleep disruption.and most users stop voluntarely by age 34.As for the number of people who are in rehab for marijuana less then 2% of them are there willingly. According to the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM), fewer than one in 10 marijuana smokers become regular users of the drug, and most voluntary cease their use after 34 years of age. By comparison, 15 percent of alcohol consumers and 32 percent of tobacco smokers exhibit symptoms of drug dependence. Marijuana for medicinal use is legal in only a few states. But heroin is used is treat people with chronic pain, cocaine is used in dentistry, and these are legal anywhere in the United States. tobbacco kills 400,000 people a year, 100,000 from alcohol, 100,000 from perscriptions, 1000 people die a year from asprin, but marijuana has never killed anyone in its 5000 year history. The government has spent $70 million on marijuana research without providing marijuana as a dangerous drug.
Recreational users find marijuana relaxing, thereaputic, a riase in creativity and other things. Some religions believe marijuana has religious purposes. Cannabis is the most widely used drug in the western world.More then 2 million americans admit to have smoked marijuana in the last month. In america, marijuana is one of the top 10 cash crops even though its illegal.An estimated 35% of the marijuana consumed is from america. an estimated $50,000,000,000 is spent a year to keep marijauna illegal.(keeping harmless users in jail,raids,intelligence,ect.) Recent reports indicate that 10 percent of the adult population in the United States are regular users. Marijuana users are just as productive as anyone else, these people have all sorts of lives and jobs doctors, laborers, government people and anything you could imagine.Doctors in england studied the affects of driving under the infulence of marijuana and found people drive better. There is no evidence that marijuana is a "gateway" drug.
Marijuana does not just have have medicinal and recreational effects but also industrial effects. Hemp has been said to have 50,000 different uses. An acre of hemp can make more paper then an acre of trees and it will grow in a few months instead of 20+ years. Hemp is different then pot, it has less then 1% of THC. Hemp can be used to make plastics, paper, paints, clothing and other fiberous materials among many other things. Hemp seeds are very healthy seconded only to soy for protien content. and the highest concentration of amino and fatty acids. Seeds contian no THC. Hemp is legal in the U.S. but only to import and not to grow. Hemp is grown for industrial use in 30 different countries around the world. An estimated 90% of the cannabis confiscated by the DEA is actually hemp. Hemp/Marijuana produces more oxygen then any other plant.
Legal effects of marijuana. Marijuana is a schedule 1 drug up there with heroin but cocaine (a truly dangerous drug) is schedule 2.More people are arrested on marijuana charges then all violent crimes put together including murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. 60,000 individuals are incarcerated for marijuana charges. Time magazine finds 72% Want Fines, Not Jail for Marijuana Possession. 90% of all drug arrests are for marijuana possesion. Punishments for marijuana-related convictions include eviction from public housing, loss of federal financial aid for college, and loss of welfare benefits. Keeping marijuana illegal just gives millions to the illegal drug trade. The U.S. loses an estimated billion dollars to keep marijuana illegal. If marijuana was Legal The U.S. would save a billion dollars a year, take millions from the drug market, and make even more by taxing it. The over flowing inmate population would drop drasticly by releasing harmless productive marijuana smokers. The television wouldnt be filled with misleading propaganda commercials like truth.
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im printing that out and am gonna say to my civics teacher
QUOTE(Word @ Sep 2 2005, 12:17 AM)
dude if you really did that, that rocks
