Legalizing Cannabis Sativa

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Legalizing Cannabis Sativa
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INTRODUCTION
The German parliamentarians passed an act legalizing use of marijuana for medical
purposes. They all voted unanimously in favor of the bill that was launched in March 2017. This
meant that ill people suffering from severe illnesses would be able to obtain the drug under a
doctor’s prescription. This would help a lot of patients with chronic pains, nausea and also
suffering from disease progression. This meant that the German state had allowed for the states
to plant and cultivate the marijuana crop for future use and also so that they could monitor the
quality. But till when they full able to produce their ow in the required quantities, the country
will be shipping them. However, the drug still remains illegal for personal possession
(Senthilingam, 2017).
Statistically, the drug happens to be the most cultivated, produced, trafficked and
consumed drug globally. This is one of the reasons why the legal limits of the use and shipment
of the drug have caused so much contention globally. In the United States, the drug is available
and allowed for medicinal as well as recreational purposes. Many countries are working towards
legalization of the drug from Canada, Australia, and Ireland to the recent Germany and Uruguay.
In Africa, South Africa is still pending approvals (Loria, 2018).
This is still a point of contention being that the legal limits as well as the allowed control
is yet to be defined as research found out. Many people, researchers as well scientists are yet to
define is Marijuana is really good or bad. This is quite a big challenge as they determine and also
influence how the policies are changed. Such measures change social and cultural norms which
affect real life scenarios (Muanya, 2017).

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This article seeks to analyze some of the facts presented by some rewoned media and
researchers.
LITERATURE REVIEW
The research article by Tom and Daniel sought to explore legalization of drugs in terms
of historical mileages, racism, class, and social exclusion based on the empirical evidence
provided to support the case. They also sough to make legal accusations from the facts collected
and they made more focus on harm and cost and the problems that have been endured in
regulation (Jackson, 2018).
Statistics presented show that over 90% of the Americans of the drug related homicides
are due to systematic crime. Hence, Wincup presents a situation where money is freed to solve
the cases that are associated with drug use. Being that over a pound is spent daily on drug related
treatment, over 3 pounds are saved on enforcement as Murphy and Roe, (2007) found out. This is
due to the research that suggest support is a better offer as compared to punishment given to the
drug traffickers and mostly the drug users. This is because their abuse of drugs comes from a
societal anomaly that they use the drugs to hide or escape from. This may be poverty, failure in
education to poverty that leads to exclusion (Guardian, 2008).
A researcher estimated that the number of public offenders that are imprisoned in
America to date has 330,000 drug offenders that makes the population to be quite larger than the
number that is in for other crimes since 1970. More to that, there is the issue of racial disparity
that is overshadowed by the large number of drug detainers. The law still follows the 1968 Anti-
Drug Act that allows for the jail sentence of a year for those found guilty of the crime. This is a
crime that has seen many defendants black, the latter white followed by Hispanics. The blacks
have been known to sere longer jail sentences for equivalent crimes that their counterparts have