What is a good paper on legalization?

Answer 1

Marijuana

The herb its self has been around for thousands of years but it wasn't always so scrutinised. It has been found in thousands of old texts being used any where from an anti depresent to a pain killer. The Chinesse wrote about it in a medical dictoinary as one of the most promanint healing herb of that time. It has also been found in Greek, latin, and Egyptian wrightings.

It is known by many names gonja, weed, green, Mary Jane, canabis, hemp, hashish and much more but basicly it all come from the cannabis plant orignaly thought to be found in the mountains in Asia. The plant it self called by the name "weed" because its ability to grow practicaly any where and any tempiture. It has been known to grow up to 18 ft. tall. Its leaves are hairy green and have either 5, 7 or sometimes 9 "petals" if you will.

After being recorded in countless anctiant medical texts and spreeding through Asia, Africa, and Europe the government and church were worried about its affects on the people and slowly outlawed it. this was in early A.D. But even today with our increase in knowledge and comunication it is still outlawed for its quote un quote adictive qualities.

In the world of drugs marijuana is one of the least harmful and adicting drugs. Though its been brought up many times legalization of the drug does not seem to be sure. Even though there are many pros to legalizing the herb. It would essentially remove the black marijuana market which would help to split the hard drug and soft drug population keeping those who smoked marijuana away from the harder things eliminating the so called "Gateway" its said to be. Removes an estimated 60% of the income for organized crime. Besides the fact that weed has less harmful affect than smoking tabbacco or drinking achahol.

The actual content with in the plant that gives you the "high" feeling being THC or tetra-hydrocannabinol can rise or fall percentige wise by how its grown where its grown, the tempiture during the growing proses, water, wind, and many other factures. But the average THC content in street weed in the year 1974 was only about 1 percent but now its been estimated at 4 to 5 percent. In some types of female plants translated as "seed less plant" it is said to have 25 to 30 percent this kind of weed is used to make hashish.

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