THE IMPACT OF MARIJUANA’S LEGALIZATION TO THE CASELOAD AMONG POLICE OFFICERS IN

SAMSON ROAD NORTHERN POLICE DISTRICT CALOOCAN CITY

A Qualitative Research Presented to the Faculty of Senior High School Department of STI College
Caloocan

In Fulfilment to the Requirements for the Senior High School Humanities and Social Sciences

Submitted by:

Alcantara, Jay Edward

Calumpita, Ronron

Fullona, Jamie

Javier, Aliah

Petrollado, Cassandra

Submitted to: Ms. Ragine Fhel Panaligan

January 2019
 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I

Problem and its Background

Introduction

Background of the Study

Conceptual Frameworks

Statements of the Problems

Hypothesis

Significance of the Study

Scope and Limitations

Definition of Terms

CHAPTER II

Foreign Literature

Local Literature

Synopsis

CHAPTER III

Research Design

Locale of the Study

Population or Sample of the Study

Research Instrument
 Chapter I

Problem and its Background

This chapter establishes the introduction, background of the study, conceptual framework,
statement of the problem, hypothesis, significance of the study, scope and limitations, and the
definition of terms used.

Introduction

Marijuana—also called weed, herb, pot, grass, bud, ganja, Mary Jane, and a vast number of
other slang terms—is a greenish-gray mixture of the dried flowers of Cannabis sativa. Some people
smoke marijuana in hand-rolled cigarettes called joints; in pipes, water pipes (sometimes called
bongs), or in blunts (marijuana rolled in cigar wraps).1 Marijuana can also be used to brew tea and,
particularly when it is sold or consumed for medicinal purposes, is frequently mixed into foods
(edibles) such as brownies, cookies, or candies. Vaporizers are also increasingly used to consume
marijuana. Stronger forms of marijuana include sinsemilla (from specially tended female plants) and
concentrated resins containing high doses of marijuana’s active ingredients, including honeylike hash
oil, waxy budder, and hard amberlike shatter. These resins are increasingly popular among those who
use them both recreationally and medically. Marijuana is made from the shredded and dried parts of
the cannabis plant, including the flowers, seeds, leaves, and stems. It’s also known as pot, weed, hash,
and dozens of other names. While many people smoke or vape it, you can also consume marijuana as
an ingredient in food, brewed tea, or oils. Different methods of taking the drug may affect your body
differently. When you inhale marijuana smoke into your lungs, the drug is quickly released into your
bloodstream and makes its way to your brain and other organs. It takes a little longer to feel the effects
if you eat or drink marijuana.

Background of the Study

In marijuana policy debates, whether legalization leads to more use is a crucial point of
contention. Legalization advocates argue that allowing the drug but regulating it could reduce use and
make its use safer, while critics say legalization will make pot more easily accessible and, therefore,
more widely used and misused. It’s too early to say whether full legalization will lead to more
widespread use, but recent research has found that pot use increased in states that legalized medical
marijuana. If legalization does lead to more pot use, the question for society and public health officials
is whether that downside outweighs the benefits of legalization. More people getting intoxicated —
albeit through a relatively safe drug — isn’t an outcome that most supporters of legalization see as
desirable, but banning pot has costs of its own, including hundreds of thousands of racially skewed
arrests and the creation of a black market that helps finance violent drug cartels around the world.

Conceptual Frameworks
Statements of the Problems

Research Question 1: What will be the effects of Legalizaing Marijuana to those Police Officers?
Research Question 2: What are the advantages they will get if the Marijuana will be legalized?
Research Question 3: Will there be changes in their workload if Marijuana become legal?

Reseach Question 4: Will their salary decreases if there’ll be changes in their workload?

Research Question 5: What will be the possible outcome of this legalization?

Hypothesis of the Study

To test the result of the study, the researchers formulated the following hypothesis:

1. There is a significant impact of Legalizing Marijuana on the Caseload among Polica Officers in
Northern Police District, Caloocan City.

2. Ther is no significant impact of Legalizing Marijuan on the Caseload among Police Officers in
Northern Police District, Caloocan City.

Significance of the Study

This study will give readers a wide view on how Marijuanas Legalization could affect the following:

Police Officers. This study will provide insights among Police Officers of Samson Road Northern
Police District, Caloocan City on how the Marijuanas Legalization changed their work loads.

Users. This study will give them extra information about Marijuana. On how to use Marijuana
properly, this will give them knowledge when Marijuana become Legalized.

Future Researchers. This will help them in formulating a new study based on this research. It
will give them the informations and datas they could use to formulate a new one.

Scope and Limitations

This research is focused on the impacts of Marijuana’s Legalization to the Caseload among
Police Officers. However, this study is only limited in Samson Road Northern Police District Caloocan
City. The study did not include any other Police Stations that has connections and in the same field as
to the studied station given.