Marijuana Legally Introduced To Society

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Marijuana is one of the most highly used drugs in America. It is illegal to use, sell or posess in the United States under federal law, but under state law, it is legal to use for medicinal purposes only. Doctors have proven that it does have medicinal qualitys. This is why states allow it to be used for medicinal use with a doctors conscent. Marijuana should be legal for medicinal purposes, industrial use and medicinal research.

Marijuana should be legal for medicinal purposes. Research has shown that marijuana has many medicinal purposes including: stress relief, pain relief for migrains, helps people with cancer and anorexia to eat, it eases glaucoma and it also helps people with nervous problems to calm down. For medicinal purposes, marijuana should be legal.

Marijuana should be legal for industrial use. Shortly before marijuana was banned by the marijuana tax act of 1937, new technologies were developed that made hemp a potential competitor with the timber industry and the newly founded synthetic fiber and plastic industries.

An article appeared in the February 1938 issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine explaining how a newly invented machine can turn hemp into valuable materials. One quote from the article says that the 77% cellulose from hemp,"can be used to produce more than 25,000 products, ranging from dynamite to cellophane." Just as this article went to press the marijuana tax act took effect, which effectively killed the hemp industry. Knowing all this, marijuana should be legal for industrial use.

Marijuana should also be legal for medical research. Researchers do not fully understand all side effects of T.H.C. (tetrahydrocannibinal) which is the chemical in marijuana that makes it a drug. They know that T.H.C. is a chemical that is naturally produced by the brain in humans during infant years. Smoking marijuana...