second only to the soybean in nutritional value, and is a source of cooking oil and vitamins. To the paper or cloth

manufacturer, it is the plant that provided much of our paper and clothing for hundreds of years and produces four

times more fiber per acre than trees. To the environmentalist, it is the plant that could greatly slow deforestation,

restore robbed nutrients by other crops, and help prevent erosion. And according to Lonnelle Aikman, "Preliminary

findings show the drug may prove effective against glaucoma and asthma, and control such side nausea in cancer

treatment" (158). Unfortunately, to most people in this country, it is a useless plant when it comes to economic or

medical value. Marijuana should be legalized in the United States. In technical terms, hemp, cannabis, or for the

average American, marijuana, it is used only for recre!

ational purposes. I think marijuana is a plant that could save the world. In this paper I hope to reverse prejudices,

relieve ignorance, and inform people of the known and potential therapeutic uses of this remarkable plant.

unsteadiness, and uncoordinated muscular contractions. Marijuana buffers !

not at intervals like smoking marijuana, it hits a person like a brick. Besides, it may not even contain the medicine

When people hear the phrase, "legalization of marijuana," they only think of the people smoking it for a "high," not

is shorter, about three or four feet in height, pyramidal in shape and densely branched; Cannabis ruderalis is about

(25). In the past year the FDA approved it as a h!

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