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BY: ZEL BROWN
CSMT 101
INTRODUCTION:
ACCORDING TO THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG
ABUSE, A RECENT GOVERNMENT SURVEY SHOWS
THAT OVER 98 MILLION AMERICAN’S OVER THE AGE
OF 12 HAVE TRIED WEED AT LEAST ONCE IN THEIR
LIFETIME.
THREE MAIN POINTS
LEGALIZING
HOW IT AFFECTS
HUMANS
WHY DID IT
BECOME ILLEGAL
MARIJUANA FOR
MEDICAL USES
FIRST POINT
• ACCORDING TO WEBMD WEED OR
CANNABIS SATIVA IS A NATURALLY
OCCURRING PLANT THAT CONTAINS
SEVERAL PSYCHOACTIVE INGREDIENTS
INCLUDING DELTA-9
TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL A.K.A THC
• WHEN THC REACHES THE BRAIN IT
INDUCES RELAXATION AND A FEELING OF
EUPHORIA. IT ALSO TYPICALLY HEIGHTENS
THE SENSES AND RELIEVES PAIN
• ACCORDING TO AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED IN
SECOND POINT
TAX
ACT
OF
1937
FORTUNE MAGAZINE MARIJUANA HAS BEEN
UTILIZED BY HUMAN CIVILIZATIONS FOR
THOUSANDS OF YEARS. IT HAS BEEN A PART OF
WESTERN MEDICINE SINCE THE EARLY 19 TH
CENTURY
• STARTING IN THE EARLY 1900’S STATES BEGAN
OUTLAWING CANNABIS BECAUSE IT HAD BECOME
ASSOCIATED WITH VIOLENCE AND PSYCHOSIS.
• IN 1937 THROUGH THE MARIHUANA TAX ACT THE
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EFFECTIVELY OUTLAWED
MARIJUANA IN SPITE OF OBJECTIONS BY THE
AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
THIRD POINT
• ACCORDING TO THE USA TODAY WHEN NEW
JERSEY PASSED MEDICAL MARIJUANA
LEGISLATION IN 2010 IT BECAME THE 14 TH
STATE TO LEGALIZE MARIJUANA IN SOME
FORM
• IN ADDITION TO THIS THERE ARE ANOTHER 14
STATES THAT ARE CURRENTLY CONSIDERING
LEGISLATION THAT WILL EITHER LEGALIZE
MEDICAL MARIJUANA OR DECRIMINALIZE
POSSESSION OF PERSONAL AMOUNTS
SUMMARY
• IN REVIEW FIRST WE LOOKED AT WHAT MARIJUANA IS WELL AS ITS EFFECTS
ON THE HUMAN BRAIN, SECOND WE SAW WHEN AND HOW MARIJUANA WAS
PROHIBITED IN THE U.S AND THIRD, WE LOOKED AT THE GROWING NUMBERS
OF STATES THAT HAVE LEGALIZED OR DECRIMINALIZED MARIJUANA.
• WITH THE LARGE PORTION OF AMERICAN’S HAVING TRIED MARIJUANA AND
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