Draft of Annotated Biblography

Edison Enciso

Professor Bailey

English 120-016

11 November 2014

Draft of Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Caulkins, Jonathan P., Angela Hawken, Beau Kilmer, and Mark A. R. Kleiman. Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York. Oxford University Press, Inc., 2012. Print.

           Caulkins serves on the editorial board of Management Science, Operations Research, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, the Journal of Drug Issues and Socio-Economic Planning Sciences. In the book, the writer describes the risks and benefits of using marijuana and also, he discusses the probability of costs and benefits of legalization at the states and nation levels. The author also considers how marijuana legalization would impact parents, heavy users, medical users, drug traffickers, and employers. I think this book may help me support my argument on the medical impact that marijuana might cause to smokers.

Moffat, Mike. “Should Government Legalizes and Tax Marijuana? Examining a Recent Study on Legalization” About.com: About Education,” About.com, 2014. Web. 8 Nov. 2014.

           Moffat is a Canadian Economist writer and holds an Honor B.A. degree in Political Science and Economics and a master degree in Economic Theory from the University of Rochester. In the article, he makes an economic analysis if marijuana is legalized. I am not sure if this article will help me support my arguments for my project; However, I will cite it as a source of information.

Remnick, David. “Going the Distance.” Newyorker.com. The New Yorker. 27 Jan. 2014. Web. 27 Oct. 2014.

Remnick is editor and writer of The New Yorker. He has written 6 books including a bibliography of the president Barack Obama (The Bridge). The article is an interview that Remnick did with president Obama where Remnick tackled different issues on his interview. For my work, I will use only the issue concerning the president’s opinion about marijuana to support my argument that marijuana is a drug completely dangerous for health.       

Tandy, Karen. “Marijuana: The Myths Are Killing Us.” About.com: About health, About.com. 9 May 2014. Web. 7 Nov. 2014.

           Tandy is a former head of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), an agency of the United States Department of Justice. In the article, she examines people’s misconception about marijuana use. This article provides me with medical information, and she discusses on temporary relief of people smoking marijuana associated with glaucoma, to support my argument that marijuana causes serious damage to smoker’s health.

United States. Department of Justice. Drug Enforcement Administration. “Drug Fact Sheets: Marijuana/Cannabis.” DEA Drug Enforcement Administration. Department of Justice. 2011. Web. 8 Nov. 2014.

The Drug Fact Sheets is an informative means developed by Drug Enforcement Administration that is an agency of the U.S. Department of Justice and that has the function to enforce the controlled substances laws and regulations of the United States, where we can find the latest information about illegal and legal drugs and their effects on our body and brain. This informative source provides me information about how marijuana is legally considered by Department of Justice to back up my argument that that marijuana is a dangerous drug that has no approved medical use and that has high potential for abuse.

Zickle, Petrick. “Marijuana Smoking Is Associated With a Spectrum of Respiratory Disorders.” National Institute on Drug Abuse: The Science of Drug Abuse & Addiction. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and National Institutes of Health. 1 Oct. 2006. Web. 8 Oct 2014.

Zickle, is an specialist in research, writing, and communications management in the fields of biomedical science, public health policy and research, and environmental science and technology. He has extensive experience working with senior federal staff at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Health and Human Services institutes and agencies to develop and plan communication projects. In his article done for National Institute on Drug Abuse, he analyzes the significant associations between marijuana smoking and a variety of respiratory diseases. This article provide me significant evidence about an epidemiological study that suggests that marijuana smoke causes the same types of respiratory damage as tobacco smoke, to support my argument that marijuana causes respiratory damages of smokers.