Moshe Eskenazi's U.S. Government Blog

After reading Legalization of... , written by Gabrielle Suzanne, I agree with her entirely. Her mentioning of statistical information to support her argument is an excellent idea since it supports the logic of legalizing marijuana as a way to improve the U.S. and state economies. Also talking about research studies to support the fact that we will have a better federal budget is an excellent way to strengthen her argument. In fact, we know more about marijuana than we actually think we do. We know that cannabis is smoked widely in many countries, more concentrated in Western countries. Today, there have been no reported cases of lung cancer of emphysema attributed to smoking marijuana. In all honesty, inhaling a day’s dose is less threatening than breathing in a city’s poor air quality to people’s health. If she mentioned more insight about marijuana usage, she would have a stronger argument since she would be focusing on how marijuana isn't that life threatening. Mentioning prov...

It’s about time to discuss a controversial, yet it shouldn’t be controversial, topic of climate change. The rising temperature has some benefits. It hasn’t been cold in some parts of Texas where it should be cold, which can be seen as a positive thing. Some people go outside and enjoy the lovely, hot blazing weather due to the change in climate. What some people don’t realize is that this hot weather we have been having, or yet the crazy hurricanes that have been invading and destroying parts of the U.S. and its territories, is caused by us...humans. There have been claims that humans aren’t the primary cause of the change in our climate with no scientific evidence. I believe that humans are responsible for climate change, even if the high almighty Trump and his administration claim that we aren’t the cause. Even though it is hard to admit it, humans are the dominant cause of the global temperature rise. The average temperatures have increased 1.8 °F. This very minimal increase in t...