Essential Question: How would the proposed marijuana policies best suit and impact the American public?
Foundation Questions:
- What efforts are currently in progress to change marijuana policies?
- Why was cannabis made illegal?
- What are the medicinal uses of marijuana?
- How has marijuana been used throughout world history?
- What are the negative effects of marijuana?
- What are the positive effects of marijuana?
- How many people are punished for marijuana use annually?
- How can the US government and citizens benefit from the taxation and regulation of cannabis?
- What countries have alternative cannabis policies and how has it positively and negatively impacted that country?
- What is the legal status of cannabis in every state?
- What happens when a marijuana user in a state that has progressive cannabis policies is confronted by Federal authorities about their marijuana use?
