First we went over the map like usual. Then we talked about some current events that has been happening around the world. One was about Dennis Rodman. Then we watched a video. Rodman actually got to hold Kim Jong Un's little baby girl. Dennis Rodman says that Kim Jong is a real good guy and is trying to change the bad things that his dad and grandfather had done in the past when they were the leader of North Korea. The next current event we talked about is Syria. How Syria agrees to let Russia inspect their chemical weapons. Obama got into and said their still is a 50 out of 50 chance that we may attack. We have to wait until they get there weapons inspected, but it is really hard to say what will really happen. The last current event we talked about was a man who got his girlfriend pregnant and tricked her into taking an abortion pill which killed the baby and now he may go to jail for 13 years. My notes below are from the presentation today. The topic was marijuana use.
-Used in china for medical uses.
-California was the first to legalize marijuana in 1996.
- Nixon started a war on drugs.
-A trillion dollars have been spent on the war of drugs since it began.
-The effects of using it is short reaction time, increases heart rate, and makes you have altered moods. -Washington and Colorado completely legalized marijuana, and other states like Montana and Illinois and new Hampshire and more are just for medical use.
-Pro-Marijuana- would benefit the economy, open up new jobs, medical use, and government would gain due to taxing pot.
-Anti-Marijuana-underage use, illegal dispensing. It is also a gateway drug and it makes people want to do other drugs. .
The last part of class everyone gave their opinions on if we should legalize it or not.
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