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9. What levels of government or government agencies, if any, are responsible for dealing with the problem? What are they doing about the problem

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9. What levels of government or government agencies, if any, are responsible for dealing with the problem? What are they doing about the problem

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The level of government or government agencies that are dealing with the problem are the police and the department of health. The police deals with this to catch those who are growing/selling marijuana illegally for it has not been legalized in the state. The department of health deals with this because some marijuana users abuse the drugs and need some medical attention right away.

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This is a picture of a plant to how marijuana is made.

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August 31, 2015 – 11,727 valid patients

September 30, 2015 – 11,912 valid patients

October 31, 2015 – 12,499 valid patients

November 30, 2015 – 12,638 valid patients

December 31, 2015 – 13,150 valid patients

January 31, 2016 – 13,021 valid patients

This is a graph showing the rising amount of patients in the medical marijuana program from August 31, 2015 to January 31, 2015.

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8. Who are the major individuals, groups, or organizations taking sides on the problem?

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8. Who are the major individuals, groups, or organizations taking sides on the problem?

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A) Why are they interested? Students who try to make a change in people's actions are interested because they want people to do things the right way and not abuse their rights.

B) What positions are they taking? The positions that these students is the anti-marijuana position because they know that marijuana does have some consequences.

C) What are the advantages and disadvantages of their positions? The advantages of their position is spreading the word and getting those people to get educated and for the disadvantages some people would not listen and just continue to do things their own way.

D) How are they trying to influence government to adopt their views? They are trying to influence government to adopt their views because the government surely wouldn't want everyone to deal with marijuana illegally.

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7. What disagreements, if any, exist in your community about this problem?

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7. What disagreements, if any, exist in your community about this problem?

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That it helps people who are depressed to go to a place with no worries and no problems in the sky. That is why people use marijuana so that is a disagreement.

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6. "The law for dealing with the problem is adequate, but it is not being well enforced.

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6. "The law for dealing with the problem is adequate, but it is not being well enforced.

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The law for dealing with the marijuana is adequate, but not being well enforced is true because although marijuana is not yet legalized in Hawaii, people still grow it locally and tend to sell it.

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5. Why is this a problem that should be handled by the government? Should anyone else also take responsibility for solving the problem? Why?

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5. Why is this a problem that should be handled by the government? Should anyone else also take responsibility for solving the problem? Why?

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Marijuana is not legalized here yet and the people would not take responsibility for solving the problem because many people uses it and no one can stop them.

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4. How widespread is the problem in your state or the nation?

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4. How widespread is the problem in your state or the nation?

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Weed is a widespread to our state because weed is a drug that makes the person feel good as in feeling high and people that like to smoke weed will eventually start to sell and farm there own weed

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3. How serious is this problem in your community?

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3. How serious is this problem in your community?

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During school days, students would skip classes to hide away and smoke which proves that they are addicted or in need.

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2. Define the community that your problem affects

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2. Define the community that your problem affects

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Marijuana affects many communities but the most affected community is in schools.

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Marijuana growers use $5 billion worth of electricity to power lightbulbs, fans, dehumidifiers and whatever else it takes to grow weed. That's 1% of the national electricity consumption. Smoking a joint is worth two pounds of carbon dioxide emissions.