A+ 1500 words research paper

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Yuanhuizi Yin

Miranda Marini

ENGL 1140-40

24 Oct 2018

How does legalizing cannabis in Canada effect the university students?

The research question I chose for this study is how legalizing cannabis in Canada affect university students. I chose cannabis as the topic of my article because last week, Canada becomes second nation in the world to legalize cannabis. As a university student, I wonder what kind of impact it will bring to university based on this government decision.

Canada legalized Cannabis one week ago, lots of stores and online shops were running out of stock and two days after the law was passed. Considering that the side effects of the consumption of Cannabis have always been controversial and consumers tend to be mostly young people who include students, I believe to study this topic so that I can be able to find a correlation between the legalization of Cannabis and university student. Some of the issues I will focus on in this research includes the effects of using cannabis on campus, reasons of using cannabis and health hazards to university students.

As far as I know, there are many Canadian universities that have already formulated relevant school regulations and related policies before the law has been promulgated, such as the establishment of separate smoking cannabis zones, as well as the first-aid measures on cannabis

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abuse. These measures have helped both type of students, who smoke cannabis and the students who do not smoke cannabis. The article I chose for the proposal is “ Characteristics and predictors of health problems from use among high-frequency cannabis users in a Canadian university student population ” which “describes key use, risk and problem characteristics of cannabis use in a sample of frequent cannabis users” (Fischer et all. 49-58). The article is beneficial to the study because it explains why students use cannabis. First, they think it's a social way to use cannabis with others. Second, more than half of the respondents used cannabis for medical reasons, such as depression, anxiety or stress disorder (Fischer et all. 49-58). This article also helped examined potential predictors of negative physical or mental health consequences associated with cannabis use, like “acute memory and psychomotor impairment, accidental injury … (and) psychotic episodes” (Fischer et all. 49-58).

Overall, this study focuses on understanding the effects of legalizing cannabis in Canada among university students. When I learned about the reasons why students indulge in cannabis usage through this article, I found that more and more young people think that smoking cannabis is a medical means rather than abuse. At the same time, I also understand the harm of cannabis to the body and creating awareness about drug and substance abuse in the university. Of course, what worries me even more is that Canada has attracted many foreign students and cannabis in some of countries were totally banned, does Canada legalizing cannabis also affect their life ?

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Reference

Fischer et al. “Characteristics and predictors of health problems from use among high- frequency cannabis users in a Canadian university student population” (2012), 49-58. Available at :

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232067071_Characteristics_and_predictors_of_health_problems_from_use_among_highfrequency_cannabis_users_in_a_Canadian_university_student_population