Annotated Bibliography- Legalization of Marijuana
Bennett, Wells,
and John Walsh. Marijuana Legalization is an
Opportunity to Modernize International Drug Treaties (2014):
n. pag. Web. 7 Apr. 2015. http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2014/10/15-marijuana-legalization-modernize-drug-treaties-bennett-walsh/cepmmjlegalizationv4.pdf
Bennett and Walsh
assert that the move by different States in the US to legalize marijuana for
recreational purposes is conflicting with three international treaties that
collectively commit the United States to punish as well as criminalize any
activity that is related to the legalization of recreational marijuana. Nonetheless, the
administration still feels that the policies that it has in place complies with
these three treaties since they leave a room for both flexibility as well as
prosecutorial discretion. According to the uthors of this journal, this
assertion by the administration is only sensible on a short-term basis but its
implausibility will arise once legalization succeeds and spreads. Bennett and Walsh goes ahead to propose that for the US to
avoid conflicting with international laws and the changing domestic consensus
on the issue of marijuana policy, it ought to seriously consider crafting
treaty changes narrowly. According to them, even though crafting treaty reforms
is rather challenging, it provides an opportunity to illustrate flexibility in
other areas apart from international law on drug policy. The authors describe
the manner in which marijuana was first legalized in Colorado in the year 2012,
giving rise to the question as to how the US should manage the increasing
uncomfortable fit between legalization of marijuana at state-level and the
obligation of the US to prevent the same. Bennett and Walsh conclude by
asserting that the legalization of marijuana and the international treaties on
narcotics are a minute component of the puzzle. They assert that the
reformation on marijuana legalization is a test that both the US and the
international order ought to pass.
Caulkins,
Jonathan P., Beau Kilmer, Mark A. Kleiman, Robert J. MacCoun,
Gregory Midgette, Pat Oglesby, Rosalie L. Pacula, and Peter H.
Reuter. Considering Marijuana
Legalization (2015): n. pag. Print. Retrieved from http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR800/RR864/RAND_RR864.pdf
Caulkins starts
by asserting that the legalization of marijuana is a controversial as well as a
multifaceted issue that is under serious debate. The above report is presented
by RAND Drug Policy Research Center that carries out research in order to
assist decision makers fin the US and other parts of the world with issues that
pertain to alcohol and other drugs. The authors carry out a comprehensive
research on the issue of legalization of marijuana. Chapter one of the research
report mainly sets the stage for the debate pertaining to marijuana policy in
addition to providing a general overview of the research report. The Second
Chapter provides an assessment of the situation of marijuana in Vermont, whose
prevalence among the young people is said to the highest in the nation. The
report present by the authors in Chapter Three is very comprehensive since it visits
the works which have been done on the same topic, thus giving the report more
credibility. In Chapter 5, the authors describe how revenue can be raised from
marijuana through taxes which will be levied on it, in case it is legalized.
The report as well discusses the costs that arise from the regulation of
marijuana along with the factors that are involved in the decision of its
legalization.
Garvey, Todd, and
Brian Yeh. "State Legalization of Recreational
Marijuana." (2014): Print.
In this research
that is presented by Garvey and Yeh, it looks at the ongoing debate on the
legalization of marijuana as an epitome of the confusion that is associated
with the capacity of States to pursue policies that deviate from the ones that
are advanced by the federal government. The literature that is reviewed in this
report is mainly scientific. The report as well discusses the legal
consequences that are related with the legal use of marijuana, bringing into
light several law suits. According to the report, legalization of marijuana is
merely not a binary choice that involves making the production, sale, as well
as possession of marijuana legal on one hand, while there exists prohibitions
against the drug on the other. There is a move by some interest groups for marijuana
to be legalized so as to help the millions of marijuana-addicts in the US. The
authors as well provide a brief history on the use of marijuana along with the
popular perception of its use. In addition, they address the epidemiology of
the use of marijuana and its addiction.
Stuart, Gitlow.
"Marijuana legalization is a risk not worth taking." (2014):
Retrieved from http://edition.cnn.com/2014/07/30/opinion/gitlow-marijuana-use/
Stuart article
opposes the use and legalization of marijuana as it demonstrates the risks
which smoking of marijuana comes with. According to him, these risks are not
worth the problems that they bring to the users of marijuana. He presents the
risk of addiction by recounting a time when he would see even patients who are
sick in hospitals removing their oxygen gas so that they can smoke. Through
approaches like this one, he is able to show how the society will be doomed in
case it embraces the use of marijuana. He asserts that the legalization of
marijuana will not be beneficial to the society in terms of helping it to make
money, but instead, it will lead to the society losing a lot of money. This can
result from long term psychiatrical problem that are prone to marijuana users
or addicts.
Svrakic, Dragan,
Patrick Lustman, Ashok Mallya, Taylor Lynn, Rhonda Finney, and Neda Svrakic.
"Legalization, Decriminalization & Medicinal Use of Cannabis: A
Scientific and Public Health Perspective." (2012): Print. Retrieved
from http://www.msma.org/docs/communications/momed/Medicinal_Use_Cannabis.pdf
In the above
article, Svrakic et al. brings into the pressure that a number of state
legislatures have been experiencing to legalize the use of marijuana for
recreational purposes. They define the legalization of marijuana as the move to
removing all the prohibitions of using it. They assert that marijuana remains
to be a US federally controlled substance which makes its distribution to be
illegal even though a number of states have passed its legalization within
their jurisdiction. According to the authors, the obscurity of the laws
surrounding the legalization of marijuana has made businesses that deal with
the selling of marijuana to flourish. To offer more insight on the aspect of
marijuana, Svrakic et al. provides data on States where marijuana has been
legalized on the basis of medicinal use as well as where canabbis has been
decriminalized. The article further brings into light the suggested approved
uses of Cannabinoids and smoked marijuana. In a move that appears to be going
against the legalization of marijuana, the article provides the adverse effects
of using marijuana. Generally, the article is very informative and resourceful
for comprehending the different aspects of marijuana.
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