Assignment 2 Shenmin (Eric) Zhu 301280891 CMNS 262 Question 1: Describe the current issue that you are going to analyze. Explain the logic of your comparison. For example, are you comparing content in similar articles across different cities within the same newspaper chain?…
Research shows that marijuana has proven medical benefits such as in the case United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers'(3) Co. The U.S. argued that it was the Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Co that violated the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 by distributing medical marijuana to ill patients with no other medicine allowing the type of relief presented. “In short, OCBC presented evidence that there is a class of people with serious medical conditions for whom the use of cannabis is necessary in order to treat or alleviate those conditions or their symptoms; who will suffer serious harm if they are denied cannabis; and for whom there is no legal alternative to cannabis for the effective treatment of their medical conditions…
Case 1: The main issue that some one was smoking marijuana in the class, professor locked the door of the class until the perpetrator inbeing identified. The student began to get anxious. Tyler grabbed the professor by her arm and shook her. Ron grabbed a piece of the door to hit the professor with it, the piece of the door instead hit Diana causing her an injury in her leg.…
LA Weed: Find It At The West LA Pot Shops Weed, or pot or other strains as it is also called, is a gray, brown or green mixture of dried and crumbled up leaves from a plant, which goes by the name marijuana. It can be rolled up and smoked as a cigarette, which is then referred to as a joint, it can also be rolled up to be smoked as a cigar, and it is then named a blunt. Some people also prefer smoking it in pipes. In some areas, people also like mixing it with their food and ingesting it directly along with the food. And in some cases, it is already mixed with certain foodstuff.…
Some of the socioeconomic characters such as median house value, monthly mortgage, rent are higher in the City-proper compared to other two regions. Some of the major businesses are housed in the Atlanta downtown, and they can skew the house values in the City-proper. The average…
The main point of this article is to inform the public about the cooling of the building boom in the GTA. This article analyzes and compares how the growing demand of single-family and new home markets are outweighing demand for condos significantly. A primary factor that has contributed to the sharp increase in housing starts is due to the delay of construction over the past few years. For years, builders and citizens have shown more interest in condo markets, the primary reason being that starting prices are more resilient than single-family homes. Condo development is accountable for 80% of all construction in the GTA.…
Hanna Tarbell Professor Branca Final Essay December 7, 2015 Weed Chronicles What comes to your mind when I say the words: marijuana, weed, bud? Do you think about the positives and how it helps people get through the day or do you just think about the “stoners” or the “abusers”? Way back in 1820’s marijuana had become mainstream in the medical world. A researcher found it cured headaches, and increased appetite, and helped some people to sleep. But nowadays it is close to becoming one of the go to medicines for the health world.…
To prevent full commercialization of medical marijuana, the county Board of Supervisors have successfully voted to ban marijuana dispensaries in the unincorporated areas of San Diego County. This is a move to control and regulate these operations. Marijuana dispensaries should be banned in unincorporated areas because they attract troublesome people, cause traffic issues, and promote the use of marijuana to young adults.…
In the process of legalization of marijuana in Hawaii, I think that this process should not be approved for the benefits of our people. With more information on this claim, theres alot of pros and cons to this situation of legalizing marijuana in the state of hawaii. Therefore i strongly belive that this decision should still be upheld to having marijuna ilegal in hawaii because marijuna causes a huge amount of affects twards teenagers like emotional developements, academic retentions and social interactions with family, friends and more. Having marijuana legalized in hawaii, will allow teens to smoke on the daily that with the percentage of teenagers that uses marijuna on the daily is 60% likely not to complete high school than those who have…
• Activists with The D.C. Cannabis Campaign (DCMJ) has organized a protest, calling for President Obama to bring an end to cannabis-related arrests, pardon people criminalized for possession of cannabis, legalize the use of cannabis for medical purposes nationwide, and to "deschedule" cannabis. • The protest organizers are encouraging members to conduct a civil disobedience and vow to be arrested in order to have their voices heard. Protestors also plan to have a mass-consumption of cannabis at 4:20pm and will not seek out permits to do so.…
Should Medical Marijuana be Federally Legalized: An Annotated Bibliography David C. Peters II. “Patients and Caregivers Report Using Medical Marijuana to Decrease Prescription Narcotics Use.” Humboldt Journal of Social Relations, vol. 35, 2013, pp. 24–40. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/humjsocrel.35.24.…
The Legalization of Marijuana Annotated Bibliography Terry, Lynne. " Cannabis Use Dulls the Brain, But are Effects Long-Term?. " Oregonian, The (Portland, OR) 03 Feb. 2016:…
In the last couple of years many people have been expressing their feeling that marijuana should no longer be illegal in Canada. It has been one of the most highly debated topics in Canada and recently seems like there are more people for legalization than against. Just last year in the Canadian election Justin Trudeau was elected in by the Canadian population. One of Trudeau’s goals was to legalize the use of marijuana once he became Prime Minister of the country. So have majority of Canadians jumped on the mainstream idea and are for legalizing marijuana?…
In 2001 the reported number of marijuana offences in Canada was 71,600, out of this number seventy percent of the reported offences were people caught with possession of marijuana (UOttawa, n.d.).The uses of marijuana can be dated all the way back to the 2900 BC when the Chinese emperor Fu His had acknowledged marijuana to be a popular medicine with many healing properties. Historically, people have used marijuana to attain euphoria. Currently, around the globe marijuana is used for religious, cultural, and recreational purposes. It has proven to be an important part of many people’s lives.…
Thesis Statement: Medical marijuana has many medical benefits warranting its legalization, which include eliminating visual haloes produced by glaucoma, controlling intraocular pressure, cough suppression, as well as the treatment of asthma, depression, pain, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, peripheral neuropathy and muscle spasticity in conditions such as multiple sclerosis. AIDS, and cancer. I. Background Information- Cannabis sativa, or marijuana as we have come know, has been around for five millennia and used medically throughout the world to treat many medical ailments, which include pain, whooping cough, asthma and anxiety. A.…