THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA

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Term Paper Title	THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA
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THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA

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Social issues

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THE LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA Is the illegalization of marijuana

valid? The debate over the legalization of Cannabis sativa, more commonly

known as marijuana, has been one of the most heated controversies ever to

occur in the United States. Its use as a medicine has existed for thousands
of

years in many countries world wide, and is documented as far back as 2700

BC in ancient Chinese writing. (Jackson,pg.55) When someone says ganja,

cannabis, bung, dope, grass, rasta, or weed, they are talking about the same

subject: marijuana. Marijuana should be legalized because the government

could earn money from taxes on its sale, its value to the medical world

outweighs its abuse potential, and because of its importance to the paper and

clothing industries. This action should be taken despite efforts made by

groups which say marijuana is a harmful drug which will increase crime rates

and lead users to other more dangerous substances. The actual story behind

the legislature passed against marijuana is quite surprising. The acts
bringing

about the demise of marijuana were part of a large conspiracy involving

DuPont, Harry J. Angslinger, commissioner of the Federal Bureau of

Narcotics (FBN), and many other influential industrial leaders such as
William

Randolph Hearst, and Andrew Mellon. The Marijuana Act, which passed in

1937, coincidentally occurred just as the decorator machine was invented.

(Jackson, pg.57) With this invention, marijuana would have been able to take

over competing industries almost instantaneously. You see 10,000 acres

devoted to marijuana will produce as much paper as 40,000 acres of average

forest pulp land. William Hearst owned enormous timber acreage so his

interest in preventing the growth of marijuana can be easily explained.

Competition from marijuana would have easily driven the Hearst paper

manufacturing company out of business, and significantly lowered the value of

his land.(Jackson,pg.60) Even popularizing the term "marijuana" was
a

strategy Hearst used in order to create fear in the American public. You see

the first step in creating hysteria was to introduce the element of fear of
the

unknown by using a word that no one had ever heard of before…

"marijuana." The reasoning behind Hearst and others was not for any
moral

or health related issues. They fought to prevent the growth of this new

industry so they wouldn’t ...

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