nged from 42% in San Antonio to 83% in Manhattan. Now nobody can argue with that, drugs are deffinetly a problem wich srongly influences the diverse ppopulation of the U.S.In conclusion of this opinion, i would like you to how marijuana has effected our school. Department of Justice statistics indicate a growing number of young arrestees are marijuana smokers. Data from 12 major urban areas showed a sharp jump, from 16.5% in 1992 to 26% in 1993, in teenage arrestees who tested positive for marijuana, the Department said. And this is the modern, high-test marijuana, about three times (sometimes more) the strength of the 1960s and 1970s weed. I think through-out the history of the school, students have been caught with marijuana on school grounds. Marijuana haunts almost every school as one of the larger problems, in the U.S. public or private.The third opinion on legalization of marijuana is that it should be legalized but limited only to medicinal use.Marijuana as medicine has been studied for many years. In some cultures, it is already used as medicine, and it stems back from many generations. There are many good uses for marijuana to be used as medicine which I will be discussing in following paragraphs. The problem is that in order to be used in America as medicine, marijuana must be legalized. Marijuana has a long history of medical use. It is one of the oldest living plants and, in ancient times, was used as various forms of medicine through ingestion of the plant. The first recorded use of marijuana as medicine was in China. It was reported in Pen Tsoo Ching in first or second century A.D. It reported that ma-fe-san(boiled hemp compound) was used as an anesthetic for surgical patients. Ma fen (the fruit of hemp) had many uses such as clearing blood and cooling temperature, relieving fluxes, undoing rheumatism, and discharging pus for patients. China is not the only country to use the drug in early times. It was introduced to sout...
