While a popular section of our nation supports legalization, the Executive branch of government still holds the power to legalize the drug. Attempts are being made to reclassify the drug for medical use.
What Ethan Nadelmann believes President Obama's words on the legalization of marijuana mean. Quotes from an interview President Obama did with Barbara Walters.
The article's focus is mainly on Colorado and Washington's choice to legalized marijuana. Explores some of the side effects of the decriminalization of marijuana.
This journal discusses the push for medical marijuana and how patients should be permitted access to marijuana. The many medical uses of marijuana are examined.
This article speaks about how it is widely accepted to use cigarettes and alcohol. However, the use of medical marijuana is still unaccepted. It goes into detail about the approval in various states.
There are many pros and cons of legalizing marijuana. This site gives a bit of more information on what these pros and cons are. For example, Marijuana is no more harmful to a person's health than alcohol or tobacco, which are both legal and widely used, and regulated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, and Some Americans believe that marijuana ingestion is immoral, and that their moral standards should be required of all Americans.
Freedom of choice is hindered and many wonder wonder of its side effects. The differences about negative side effects between weed and other legalized drugs are discussed.
Is legalizing marijuana a pro or a con? Well this website gives you both sides of the story. It explains a few of events, or personal experiences that can be very helpful.
Some of the pros of legalizing marijuana are that it can be taxed, law enforcement could be doing more productive things with their time and that whether one smokes it should be their own decision. Some of the cons include that marijuana could possibly lead to other drugs and that long term use could be harmful.
The article focuses on different studies done to see if there are negative effects of using cannabis. Negative effects in the brain for teens and a long term effect on concentrating and learning new things is discussed. The news is not all bad though, it may even reduce chances of cancer in tobacco smokers.
The article talks about a bill that would allow people over the age of 21 to allow marijuana for personal use in Hawaii. More bills like these are expected to be proposed in other states despite how local authorities might feel about it.
The first page is a history on marijuana and goes over what it is, what it does, and why it was banned in the first place. The second page explains the pros and cons behind the social reasons, law enforcement reasons and fiscal reasons of legalizing marijuana.
Interesting blog on the legalization of drugs and the right to control your body. With emphasis on the federal governments contemporary prohibition policy.
This website is pro-marijuana legalization. It provides the history and background of Marijuana, as well as why it should be legalized. It includes statistics and research backing up their case.
Recent laws in Washington and Colorado have legalized the use of marijuana. This is having a big impact on the approach Mexico and the US have taken in the drug war.
On this website I found great information what states have already decided to legalize marijuana and the reasoning behind it. The site states that the Obama administration is allowing states to implement medicinal marijuana laws without any federal interference. Of course the website also lists each state that is more than likely to legalize marijuana and the reasons each state has for doing so.
This article is written from a pro-legalization of marijuana standpoint. The author compares the drug to alcohol and concludes that it is less harmful.