This how ever cannot be true if they were to legalize marijuana then I believe the crime rate would drop. ... The Senate report said that it may cause loss of short term memoire, loss of co-ordination and concentration but the effect wear off after you stop doing the drug. ... Why spend money trying to stop something that cant be stopped and start making money from it. ... A recent book of American slang lists more than 200 terms for various kinds of marijuana. So how is marijuana used? ...

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But in 1938, the New York Academy of Medicine reported marijuana as a relatively harmless drug with no physically addicting effects and that it did not help in having any effect on the crimes of violence committed by people. ... In a pharmacy book written by the emperor Shen-Nung about 2657 B.C., he recommends marijuana as a cure for "gout, rheumatism, malaria, beriberi, constipation, and absent mindedness (Stwerka 5)." ... Marijuana was first mentioned in an American book in 1843 where it was recommended as a treatment for gout, tetanus, hysteria, depression, and common insanity. ... Harold A...

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The DEA is shocked, and realizes just how big the drug problem in the United States was. ... In March 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a report on various aspects of marijuana, including the so-called, Gateway Theory (the theory that using marijuana leads people to use harder drugs like cocaine and heroin). ... The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on marijuana explained that marijuana has been mistaken for a gateway drug in the past because "Patterns in progression of drug use from adolescence to adulthood are strikingly regular. ... The same survey reports, "The rate of past mon...

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The DEA is shocked, and realizes just how big the drug problem in the United States was. ... In March 1999, the Institute of Medicine issued a report on various aspects of marijuana, including the so-called, Gateway Theory (the theory that using marijuana leads people to use harder drugs like cocaine and heroin). ... The Institute of Medicine's 1999 report on marijuana explained that marijuana has been mistaken for a gateway drug in the past because "Patterns in progression of drug use from adolescence to adulthood are strikingly regular. ... The same survey reports, "The rate of past...

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A Research of the Media Coverage of the War on Drugs: Marijuana: The Facts and the Media Coverage The "war on drugs" was announced by President Nixon in 1971. The media has been there since the very beginning: covering this so called war with every means at their disposal. Some feel tha...

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When Chinese started to immigrate to the United States, they brought opium with them. ... Percentage of Persons reporting any Illicit Marijuana Use: Age 19-28 (2) 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 66.50% 66.00% 63.80% 62.80% 60.20% 58.60% 60.20% 62.20% As stated before, propaganda was very well produced and distributed during "Reefer Madness". ... Army did a study on Amotivational Syndrome "It has sometimes been observed that when a young person starts smoking marijuana there are systematic changes in that person's lifestyle, ambitions, motivatio...

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