END THE PROHIBITION ON MARIJUANA AND INDUSTRIAL HEMP Outline Thesis Statement: Legalization of industrialized hemp and marijuana benefits our economy‚ decriminalizes a 35 billion dollar a year industry‚ creates jobs‚ and makes sense for the environment. I. Marijuana has been illegal in the United States since the Marihuana Stamp Tax Act was enacted by congress in 1937 A. A Brief History B. Marijuana Cash Crop II. The prohibition of marijuana contributes to a black market system‚ which
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of cultures and has shown the world how ambiguous a substance can be. In 1920 the 18th Amendment banning the sale‚ manufacture‚ and transport of alcohol was passed. This was called Prohibition. Prohibition was supposed to decrease crime‚ death rate due to alcohol abuse‚ and the overall consumption of alcohol. Prohibition was a failure because it did the opposite of everything is was supposed to prevent. Prohibition’s first problem was that it didn’t ban the overall consumption of alcohol. This caused
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liquor known as Prohibition. The result of a widespread temperance movement during the 20th century‚ Prohibition was difficult to enforce and people would go through extreme lengths just to get their hands on alcohol. The illegal production and sale of liquor‚ the proliferation of speakeasies‚ and the rise in gang violence and other crimes went way up. This led to waning support for Prohibition at the end of the 1920’s. Both federal‚ and local government struggled to enforce Prohibition. The enforcement
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Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty that officially ended WWI. It was negotiated at the Paris Peace Conference throughout the spring of 1919. This treaty didn’t exactly end war between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany but created a humiliating effect on the Germans side which eventually led to WWII. The Treaty of Versailles was highly confidential and caused hard feelings on all sides‚ contributing to the outbreak of WWII. (Treaty of Versailles) The treaty required Germany and
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show prospects in equality of gender. However‚ many illegal activity began due to the eighteenth amendment enacted on January 16th‚ 1920. The eighteenth amendment was ratified to decrease drunkenness and family abuse when consumed alcohol. The prohibition interdicted the manufacture‚ distribution‚ and sale of alcohol in the United States. Thus‚ contributed in the creation of bootlegging liquor business as a complex criminal enterprise and many other illegal activities. Bootlegging was an illegal
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Once Prohibition was enacted congress had soon become disengaged with the movement‚ because many Politicians were drinking despite the law. Subsequently congress never provided proper funding for any type of reinforcement for the extensive violations of the Volstead act. Even those who strongly supported prohibition were reluctant to produce or request additional funding‚ because revealing to the public how severe violations had become would be compromising to the cause. This weakness allowed street
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that drove all people at the time. However‚ this time is also known as the Prohibition Era‚ as alcohol was banned at the very beginning of the decade. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel‚ The Great Gatsby‚ it is important to understand the historical context of the ongoing Prohibition and desire for increased status in the 1920’s to fully grasp the role alcohol played on the novel’s theme of social class. Despite the Prohibition of the 1920’s‚ alcohol flowed freely at Jay Gatsby’s parties‚ and thus attracted
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In the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth‚ women became very active in political and social movements. Women played roles that shaped the future of the laws that prohibited women in many ways. Women’s suffrage and women’s role in prohibition are two ways in which women have shaped political and social moments in United States history. Women have never given up on fighting for rights‚ many times with monetary and social consequences for trying to gain rights they felt belonged to them
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Corey Tripp Mr. Thomas English 102 14 February 2013 The Great Gatsby: Prohibition The Great Gatsby is set in 1920’s which is the heart of the gangster era in America. Along with gangsters comes organized crime specifically bootlegging alcohol during prohibition. Prohibition was brought about in 1920 by the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution‚ and it ended in 1933‚ it was ratified by the Twenty-First Amendment to the Constitution. Bootlegging in the 1920’s is the way many people got rich
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Women were supposed to fulfill certain roles‚ such as a caring mother‚ a diligent homemaker‚ and an obedient wife. The perfect mother was supposed to stay home and nurture so society would accept them. A diligent housewife had dinner on the table precisely at the moment her husband arrived from work. After World War II‚ there was an expansion of the population; therefore caused the need for more housing and other needs of people. The first mass-produced suburb - Levittown‚ New York - was built
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