Essays on Medical Purposes

Was the Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center raid legal?

Federal or state laws govern the United States of America (USA). The federal law applies to the whole country, governing all 50 states, while state laws apply to specific states. The state law only prevails if it gives people more rights that the federal law. The issue of legalization of marijuana in some states of America, like California, whereas the federal law prohibits the use of the same substance for any purpose leads to a supremacy clause. Part VI of the U.S. Constitution addresses the Supremacy clause that gives the federal government a winning card when a conflict between ...

THE ROLE OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION IN PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE INFLUENCE OF WORK OF THE PUBLIC COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONALS IN PARTICULAR SECTORS

The role of Public Relations (PR) and Public Communications officers has transformed from supportive to the strategic function, building on sustainable and effective operations in all three sectors (Fawkens, 2012, pp.3-20). While some may think that the role of public communication is to handle emergencies, the strategic goals of this function are much wider (Lattimore et al., 2012, pp.354-358). Among others, some of the vital tasks of PC include the development and implementation of the public image strategy, ...

Marijuana

Nora Volkow et.al (2014) deals with adverse health effects of marijuana use. Everything comes from the shift in the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes. Patients tend to be interested in the potential and real effects of marijuana on the health. Nowadays marijuana is the most widely used drug in the world and people should be aware of its effects. From the one point of view, it is associated with negative health effects, and from the other point of view, nobody has proved that it is harmful. I have chosen this article because it deals with the ambiguous problem ...

The debate as to whether or not to legalize marijuana in America has been heavily documented. Different states have different laws pertaining the vice. The fact that it is used both for medicinal and recreational purposes makes it difficult for the government to ban it. In the past few years, the marijuana debate has constantly featured in legal and legislative controversies. Different states seem to adopt different approaches over the issue. At the moment, marijuana is legalized in more than 20 states, including the District of Columbia. It would be prudent to note that such legalization is restricted to ...

Abstract

Studies documenting substance abuse have shown that it is deadly. Studies done in these areas have shown a trend in the abuse of substance among the youth. Substances such as marijuana, alcohol and cannabis are continually being abused by the youth. Tobacco consumption by youth is yet to be mitigated. The government, has in some cases, not helped the situation but has served to escalate the crises by making potent substances available to users without regulation. The objectives of this research are to analyze the opinion of researchers I this field and their opinions on the matter at hand. ...

Introduction

Nowadays, the struggle against the use, dissemination, and production of drugs is quite severe. Despite the fact that so-called War on Drugs has been launched in 1971, it seems like there was no serious developments in this direction. Since the development of this campaign, loads of taxpayers’ funds were invested to this fight, a lot of people were detained, and tons of substances confiscated. The War led to the militarization of the police and involvement of the military into the raids on multiple occasions. One of the main issues here is the focus of the authorities on a specific ...

Public or community health can be defined as an array of measures, both of private and public nature, that are targeted at preventing diseases, fostering health and trying to prolong life in general as well as make it more healthy. The goals of these activities are creating healthy conditions of life for the entire society which can positively reflect on personal health of each given person, focusing on overall trends in the health stance of the entire population of a given state or globally (Public Health). This leads us to the idea how public health differs from private health. ...

Sobriety is essential in the workplace as it enhances employee productivity. However, the recent legalization of marijuana in some states in the United States has sparked multiple controversies over its impact in the workplace. Specifically, individuals feel that this drug poses a significant threat to the primary user and other workmates. As such, they maintain that its utilization in the corporate field should be eliminated, and employees should not tolerate any personnel who works under the influence of this drug. However, there is a specialized group of people who use marijuana for medical purposes. Precisely, this drug has been ...

Marijuana is used often in modern society because it is easily accessible and even people who do not need it for medical purposes use it. It is not legally available, but it is used to alleviate pain related to various severe diseases. Cannabis has been used in ancient times as well as it is used today and it has side-effects apart from helping people deal with pain. It will be available to people in the USA for medical purposes even more in the future. People who suffer from multiple sclerosis need help in getting legal marijuana because they need ...