All other patients using marijuana medicinally are considered criminals. ... As it stands now, the expensive criminal laws which prohibit marijuana possession are unable to even deter marijuana use. ... With the same general aims as the Netherlands, two of Australia's eight territories removed criminal penalties for marijuana related offenses. ... Marijuana continues to be the third most popular recreational drug in the United States despite 60 years of criminal prohibition. ... Even the U.S government's studies concluded that, "existing research seems to indicate that there is litt...

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Ever since that fateful day in 1937 there has also been millions of Americans that supported (emphasize) the government's choice to criminalize this plant. ... This illustrates Federally Sanctioned medical uses of marijuana (Schedule II). ... keep it criminalized. ... These groups hold tight the moral issues associated with the criminalization of marijuana. ... Suddenly they are arrested, jailed and treated like criminals solely because of their recreational drug of choice. ...

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Indeed, the government would strike a match to any suggestion to balance their bloated budget, and the sanctioning of a five-leafed plant known as marijuana undeniably supports their cause. ... The growing child feels as though they are an appalling person, if they have any sense of morals, and the strain of changing from a law-abiding excellent young citizen to a criminal sends all the wrong messages into a youngster's mind. ... First off, the obvious fact that every marijuana dealer and smoker wouldn't be criminals any longer would greatly decrease crime itself. ... The police ...

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Researchers have compared the marijuana use between states that have decriminalized marijuana and states that still had criminal sanctions and have found no difference. ... With the criminalizing of marijuana the prison systems has been clogged with hundreds of thousands of people for doing a victimless crime. ... According to John P Morgan, M.D some states such as California and Arizona approved in 1996 to remove state criminal penalties for possessing marijuana for medical use. ...

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Some of us may have been sanctioned informally or formally. A behavior that is usually sanctioned negatively or positively is the use of illegal drugs. ... developed by Edwin Sutherland, differential association theory was originally formulated in terms of general criminal behavior, but it has been widely applied to adolescent delinquency and substance use?...

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Many drug users say that the first drugs they ever used were the two socially sanctioned drugs, alcohol and tobacco. ... However, marijuana is illegal, turning the people who use it as medicine into criminals. ...

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Many drug users say that the first drugs they ever used were the two socially sanctioned drugs, alcohol and tobacco. ... However, marijuana is illegal, turning the people who use it as medicine into criminals. ...

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The Washington State Medicinal Marijuana Act (Initiative 692) states in chapter 69.51A, "Patients with a qualifying diagnosis and a physician's recommendation for the medicinal use of marijuana, now have legal defense against criminal prosecution in Washington. ... Stroup says, "People are fed up with the notion that we need to send everyone to prison for minor drug offenses," particularly for activities sanctioned by the states. ...

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"The use of marijuana is now so widespread that some cities and counties have softened their sanctions against the drug to the point that possession of small quantities is an often-ignored misdemeanor"(Eldredge 24). ...

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