Is The Illegalization Of Marijuana Valid?

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Is The Illegalization of Marijuana Valid?

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
writings.  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.  According to Jack Herer, author of The Emperor  Wears No
Clothes, the acts bringing about the demise of hemp were part of a large
conspiracy involving DuPont, Harry J. Anslinger, commissioner of the Federal
Bureau of Narcotics (FBN), and many other influential industrial leaders such as
William Randolph Hearst and Andrew Mellon.  Herer notes that the Marijuana Tax
Act, which passed in 1937, coincidentally occurred just as the decoricator
machine was invented.  With this invention, hemp would have been able to take
over competing industries almost instantaneously. According to Popular Mechanics,
"10,000 acres devoted to hemp 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 hemp can be easily explained. Competition
from hemp would have easily driven the Hearst paper-manufacturing company out of
business and significantly lowered the value of his land.  Herer even suggests
popularizing the term "marijuana" was a strategy Hearst used in order to create
fear in the American public.  Herer says "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'".
     DuPont's involvement in the anti-hemp campaign can also be explained
with great ease.  At this time, DuPont was patenting a new sulfuric acid process
for producing wood-pulp paper. Accordi...

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