Legalization Of Marijuana

Title	Legalization Of Marijuana
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Legalization of Marijuana

Legalization of Marijuana

     What is marijuana?  According to Harvard Medical Professor Lester
Grinspoon, it is a "miracle drug", one that prevents blindness, acts as an
appetite stimulant for AIDS patients, and prevents muscle spasms in epileptics.
When speaking of the same plant, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics for
over thirty years, Harry J. Anslinger said that this "evil weed" led to killings,
sex crimes and insanity.  How can two such highly respected experts have such
night and day outlooks on the same thing?  While Anslinger presided as America's
leading anti-drug official his McCarthyish hunt down of Marijuana users led to
the downfall of many well respected Americans.  During the 1900's the United
Stated has committed itself to and unprecedented war on marijuana that is costly,
unjustified and impossible to win.

     The topic of Marijuana is quite broad.  It encompasses history,
legislation, and the benefits as well as the harms of the plant itself.

     Marijuana is the name of the plant known to botanists as Cannabis Sativa.
Other names for the plant exist throughout the world.  In Africa, Marijuana is
known as "dagga", in China as "ma", in Northern Europe as "hemp" and in the
United States as either "pot", "buds", "reefer", "weed" or the more direct,
"smoke".  Marijuana goes back over five thousand years.  It is one of the oldest
agricultural commodities not grown for food.  Hemp, first cultivated in China as
early as 2800 B.C., soon stretched to central Asia where it spread like milkweed
or thistle.  Marijuana soon began to crowd out neighboring grasses and reaching
heights of three to twenty feet stretched over large plains.  Local people began
to use the plant for its strong, durable fibers which they used for rope and to
construct material similar to linen.  Early in the Christian Era, Marijuana
reached the Mediterranean countries of Europe.  Its cultivation spread through
the rest of Europe during the Middle ages.  Hemp's progression to Africa can
easily be marked through the Middle East where it remains a major cash crop.  It
is unknown how the plant found its way to the America's.  One of the most
popular theories is that European explorers brought the seeds along with them.
The cultivation of Marijuana has been successful in almost every climate.  It is
the unbounded growth of Marijuana th...

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