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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1659 words (6.64 pages) in the essay titled the case for canibus Legalization of marijuana offers both benefits, and disadvantages. The medical benefits of marijuana have been researched and proven to aid patients with glaucoma and some forms of cancer. Other benefits include: fewer people in prison and fewer social problems for the users because they get help instead of jail time. The big question remains: all out legalization or legalization for medical use, or decriminalization. Whatever the outcome, marijuana use needs to be based on its own pharmacology and its own faults and not on the problems with other drugs.The history of drug use in the United States is surprising. A survey in Iowa in the 1880s found that 3,000 grocery stores sold opiates without a prescription.(Legalization: A Debate, Elliot Marshall) Around the turn of the century, the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) simply required patent medicines to list ingredients on the label. In 1914, Congress wished to improve relations with China, and so passed narcotics control measures requiring the monitoring of certain drug sales. Various acts were passed over the next several decades that gave the federal government more and more control over importation and distribution of narcotics. In 1971, in part as a response to the tumult of the 1960s, President Richard Nixon launched a comprehensive “War on Drugs”. Two years later, Nixon declared that we had won the war on drugs. Apparently he was wrong, for in the United States, drug law enforcement costs have risen to astro... |
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