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Marijuana: Legalize or Decriminalize
Title: Marijuana: Legalize or Decriminalize
Category: Social Sciences
Details: Words: 755 | Pages: 3.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Marijuana: Legalize or Decriminalize
"Compared with cigarettes and alcohol, the health risks and societal costs associated with even chronic marijuana use are mild. Yet we don't ban those items, while we deny marijuana to seriously ill people who could get a lot of relief from it. This is misguided and cruel. "
Ever wake up feeling really hung over from a night of smoking out? Thought not. Throw in some heavy drinking, though, and you'll awake feeling like death itself (…showed first 75 words of 755 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 755 total…we sentence nonviolent drug offenders to five times more jail time than those convicted of manslaughter. Judges, disgusted with these injustices, are quitting the bench. When the severity of punishment is way out of proportion with the offense, the system is corrupt.
Americans - four million regularly - use marijuana more frequently than they do all other illegal drugs combined. They are no more criminals than people who like to have a drink to relax after work.
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