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Question by : Need Ur Help! Any Law Students? On Marijuana Legalization!?
we’re gonna debate on the legalization of marijuana. its more like an argument, not a trial. 10 Min’s each. i know you guys love it! we are the proponent team. now i need more examples that have a high authority, any recent case about marijuana? do you have any or a draft you’ve worked before? i checked on findlaw.com found little about it…thank u folks. contact me at [email protected]
@Ergre United States of America! thank you

Best answer:

Answer by Ergre
dude – marijuana legislation of what country?

Answer by ☯420★
The following source states how the prohibition of drugs has failed, thus recommending the legalisation of illicit substances. Specifically, it mentions the legalisation of cannabis.
– http://www.globalcommissionondrugs.org/Report

This report was conducted by the “Family Council of Drug Awareness” Europe. It states that the prohibition of cannabis is unfounded and recommends that it should be reversed. They also go into details about the Cannabis Biomass Energy Equation — it shows how marijuana is the best bio fuel.
– Cannabis: The Facts, Human Rights and the Law – The Report of the FCDA Europe:

The following is a patent given by the US government. The US government often states that marijuana has no medicinal benefits, yet it has given a patent stating that cannabinoids (found in THC in marijuana) has great medicinal benefits.
– U.S. Patent # 6630507: “Cannabinoids as Antioxidants and Neuroprotectants”

I’d recommend you do the following areas for your presentation:
– How prohibition does not work: Use the first source and examples of how the US government spends billions of dollars each year on the “War on Drugs”. In spite of this, marijuana use is on the increase and its availability is also increasing. The lack of government regulation, such as that seen with alcohol and cigarettes, means it is easier for younger people to get access to marijuana compared to alcohol and cigarettes. (CASA report: http://blog.norml.org/2009/08/28/study-says-its-easier-for-teens-to-buy-marijuana-than-beer/)
– How marijuana is medically less harmful and addictive than other legal drugs: Alcohol is more dangerous than marijuana; show how many people die each year from alcohol, compared to the number who have overdosed from marijuana — ZERO people have died from marijuana overdoses.

To summarise, think about the following:
– negative effects on society due to prohibition causing more gang crime, etc.
– negative effects on economy due to billions being wasted trying to enforce the prohibition.
– medical facts that marijuana is less dangerous than other legal drugs, and how cannabinoids have been shown to be medically beneficial.

You’ll nail the debate because there are no valid arguments from the opposition who support its criminalisation.

P.S. If they mention Dr Heath’s study in 1974 which linked cannabis to brain damage, remind them that it was because the monkeys were starved of oxygen during the experiment, as he pumped 50 joints worth of cannabis into the monkey without including oxygen — it was oxygen starvation which caused the brain damage, not marijuana!

Dr Heath’s study is the main foundation of all the propaganda and misinformation out there. Modern medical science has debunked his findings.

Also, they’ll probably mention it causes mental illnesses. Again, this is wrong. Only those who have mental illnesses in their genes are susceptible to it being highlighted by marijuana. Cannabis DOES NOT cause mental illnesses.

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