Final of Annotated Bibliography

Edison Enciso

Professor Bailey

English 120-016

28 November 2014

Final of Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Caulkins, Jonathan P., Angela Hawken, Beau Kilmer, and Mark A. R. Kleiman.”What Are the Risks of Using Marijuana?” Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2012. 54-80. Print.

In this book, Caulkin, Hawken, Kilmer, and Kleiman analyze the risks and benefits of using marijuana from different points of views, and they also discuss the probability of costs and benefits of legalization at the state and national levels. However there is a section in which I am interested because it examines the different risks of using marijuana such as overdose, emphysema and other respiratory problems, cancer, impaired mental health, and the effect of parental use on children. I think this section of the book will help me back up my thesis that smoking marijuana is dangerous for people’s health.  

Deramus, Tony. “It’s All in Your Head: Marijuana and the Brain.” The Seceret Addiction: Overcoming Your Marijuana Dependency. Texas: SMA International, LLC. 2011. 129-136. Print.

Deramus is the CEO of SMA International, a company devoted to addressing the rampant abuse of marijuana worldwide by training, coaching and educating counselors. This book is a guide to overcome marijuana dependency in which it shows why people smoke pot, how they get addicted, how it destroys motivation and accomplishment, the difficulties and challenges of quitting. In the section “It’s All in Your Head: Marijuana and the Brain,” there is important information about the effects of marijuana on the hippocampus and the cerebellum that are related to memory, coordination, and balance produced in the brain. This section  will also provide me with useful evidence to support my claim that marijuana damages smokers’ brain.  

Martin, Alison, and Nushin Rashidian. “A Plant by Any Other Name.” A new Leaf: The End of Cannabis Prohibition. New York: The New Press, 2014. 12-35. Print.

Through this book, Martin and Rashidian present an expert analysis of how recent development toward legalization will affect the war on drugs both domestically and internationally. In the section, “A Plant by Any Other Name,” he refers to scientific studies of marijuana and its effects on smokers, and how marijuana is scientifically considered in the United States.The scientific studies of pot will help me support my argument that smoking marijuana is harmful to smokers.  

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 the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), an agency of the United States Department of Justice. In her article she examines people’s misconceptions about marijuana use. She also discusses the relation between  the temporary relief of glaucoma and marijuana. Although this article has medical information that the writer uses to support her arguments. 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.

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. In the DEA’s drug fact sheet, we can find the latest information about illegal and legal drugs and their effects on our bodies and brains. This informative source will provides me with information about how marijuana is legally considered by the Department of Justice to back up my argument 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 will provide me  with significant evidence  through an epidemiological study that suggests that marijuana smoke causes the same types of respiratory damage as tobacco smoke, to complement  my support about  smoking marijuana that causes respiratory damages.