Write a 15 page paper with bibliography. Your written assignments must follow APA guidelines. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from the week’s Learning Resources and additional scholarly sources as appropriate. Refer to the Pocket Guide to APA Style to ensure in-text citations and reference list are correct.

In 1972 marijuana was placed in Schedule 1 of the Controlled Substances Act as such the US government considered it to have not accepted medical use in treatment. Currently 14 states of the 50 states have enacted protections to citizens using marijuana for medical purpose. In this assignment, you will consider federal legislation on this important issue. The issue before Congress is whether to continue the federal prosecution of medical marijuana patients and their providers in accordance with the federal Controlled Substance Act or to permit the use of marijuana when recommended by a physician.

Your paper should do the following:

State your position. Your position should take that is opposite to your personal views.

Discuss the context of this legislation – name the expected demanders and suppliers as outlined in our textbook, Chapter 3.

Describe the expected interest groups and there specific arguments

Describe the expected interplay between demanders and suppliers, interest groups and analyze the public policy environment.

State your strategic policy to enhance or diffuse results of public policy environment.

The book we are using is:Title: Health Policymaking in United States

Edition: 6th (2015)

Author: Longest

Publisher: ACHE

Book ISBN: 978-1-56793-719-0

Ebook ISBN:

Legalization of Marijuana
Paper details:
Major Writing Assignment Critical Policy Analysis (4000 words) The major writing assignment draws comparisons across the course readings.

The goal is to critically analyze a problematic [Canadian] public policy using, in part, the developmental models discussed in the course. In this way, students should develop an argumentative paper that appraises some of the major themes, methods and concepts of the readings. A minimum of 8 references are required. Papers should follow the basic guidelines below and should use subtitles to distinguish between the various sections. o Introduction o
Part I: Policy Overview and Analysis: This section should describe, in detail, a specific public policy (or policy field). Students should note the basic objective[s] of the policy (including the social problem it seeks to address) and describe its major impacts (or potential implications) before highlighting its inherent limitations or weaknesses. o
Part II – Conceptual Application: This section should describe the forces that have impacted the development (and or evolution) of your policy. The point here is to offer evidence to support the explanatory significance of the model(s) discussed in class. This section of your paper, in other words, will attempt to explain the nature and development of your selected policy by applying one or more of the theoretical approaches/models examined in the course. Note: the problems and weaknesses highlighted in Part I should be reflected in (or consistent with) the specific nature of your theoretic application in
Part II o Summary Comments – This section should not only summarize your analysis but (1) discuss how your selected policy could be improved and (2) explore, briefly, the forces/processes/relations limiting policy change. Your discussion here should draw on and build from the substantive content developed in Part I and Part II; it should, in other words, follow logically from your previous analysis. You are strongly advised to keep an electronic and hard copy of your essay. They should be kept until the marked assignment has been returned.
Late papers submitted without proper supporting documentation will be penalized 10% a day (including weekends). Students are encouraged to draw on their areas of expertise in preparing this assignment and to look at a policy issue relevant to their field of interest.

Using the globalization policy model.

Participants (Who is your intended target or desired population?)
Procedures (What your participants will do during the study)

Analysis Methods (Proposed data collection strategies and related analysis – how you will obtain the data and what you will do with it)

Part Five: Implications

Implications of Your Study to the Field of Human Services

References