BC. Cannabis‚ which is marijuana‚ has many different uses. Some of these uses include a recreational drug‚ as a religious rite‚ as a spiritual rite and even medical uses. So why is cannabis illegal? Cannabis was once legal and was one of the largest agricultural crops in the world. It was once one of the largest agricultural crops because cannabis can also be hemp. What is hemp? Hemp is the most durable‚ natural‚ soft fibre in the world. Until 1883 and hundreds of years before that‚ cannabis hemp
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gateway drug‚ it is highly addictive‚ and hazardous causing Cannabis to be in the same classification as heroin and cocaine. Obviously‚ proven by modern science‚ none of this is true whatsoever‚ but the media brainwashed the public into thinking so‚ to stop the rebellious counter-culture of the 1960s. From approximately 2737 B.C.‚ marijuana was first recorded to reap medical and spiritual benefits. Even after its arrival in the New World‚ cannabis use expanded to the replacement of cotton fibers‚ and paper
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History of Marijuana Cannabis is indigneous to Central and South Asia Evidence of the inhalation of cannabis smoke can be found in the 3rd millennium BCE‚ as indicated by charred cannabis seeds found in a ritual brazier at an ancient burial site in present day Romania. In 2003‚ a leather basket filled with cannabis leaf fragments and seeds was found next to a 2‚500- to 2‚800-year-old mummified shaman in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China. Cannabis is also known to have been
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Each year there are twenty million Americans that try cannabis for the first time. (Armentano‚ 2013) Americans are going to smoke cannabis if it’s legalized or not so our country should legalize it and make money. Legalizing cannabis will help our country economically‚ help patients that truly do benefit from the drug‚ and help decrease the amount of street drug dealing. To some of the patients that use medical cannabis it is very difficult for them to get if they don’t live in a state where it is
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Justin Trudeau‚ Canada’s Prime Minister-elect‚ refuses to back pedal on his position favoring legalized marijuana. It was a tenet of his campaign and now that he beat Stephen Harper credibility is added to his position. Trudeau said in a recent speech‚ “The Liberal party is committed to legalizing and regulating marijuana. Controlling it in a way that is going to protect our kids and remove criminal elements from it. And we’re going to get started on that right away.” Trudeau’s stance is a dramatic
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Rogerian Argument 11 December 2012 Rogerian Argument for Marijuana Legalization The cannabis plant has been the topic of much debate throughout the history of this country. It was actually originally the work of the cotton industry who put big money behind illegalization for the plant ’s mind altering effects. The cotton industry was afraid that hemp‚ a product of the cannabis plant‚ would soon overpower the strong hold of cotton since it was a more durable textile that required less work‚ less
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Taxonomy of Cannabis [1] Cannabis and Ancient History [1.2] Cannabis and American History [1.3] Cannabis and: Species or Varieties [1.4] Cannabinoids : The Active Ingredients of Marijuana [2] Cannabinoids and the High [2.2] Resin and Resin Glands [2.3] Production of Cannabinoids by Cannabis [2.4] Cannabis Chemotypes
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St. Camillus College of Manaoag Foundation Inc.Barangay Licsi‚ Manaoag‚ Pangasinan. Position Paper in Economics (2nd Grading Project in Economics) submitted by: Dan Christian Vicente Submitted to: Ms Raquel Ferrer(subject teacher) "YES to MARIJUANA IN PHILIPPINES" I. Introduction Marijuana is a topic of significant public discourse in the United States‚ and while many are familiar with the discussions‚ it is not always easy to find the latest‚ research-based information on marijuana
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Trent Bentz Pam McBroom Writing 54 30 October 2013 Marijuana History When it comes to using the drug for medical purposes‚ though‚ no one did it like the ancients. Around 2000 B.C.‚ the Egyptians used cannabis to treat sore eyes (Webley). A millennium later‚ doctors in India could be found mixing the weed with milk to use as an anesthetic (Webley). In 200 B.C.‚ the Greeks used marijuana to remedy earaches (Webley). Pot even enjoyed its freedom in America ’s early days stated in the article
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diseases. Cannabis is a species of flowering plants that includes three distinct species‚ Cannabis sativa‚ Cannabis indica‚ and Cannabis ruderalis Janisch. The substance we know today as Marijuana are the buds off the Cannabis sativa plant‚ which contains a higher concentration of the active ingredient in Marijuana‚ THC or tetrahydrocannabinol. Hemp‚ on the other hand‚ is a common name for plants in the entire family of Cannabis‚ although the term usually only refers to Cannabis strains cultivated
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