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Marijuana

Legalizing Marijuana Marijuana is the name for the drug that comes

from the leaves and flowers of the Indian hemp plant, Cannabis sativa. It

is a tobacco-like substance produced by drying the leaves and flowery top

of the cannabis plant. Marijuana is usually smoked as a cigarette called a

joint or in a pipe or bong. Recently, it has appeared in cigars called

blunts which are longer. This drug is a mild hallucinogen, meaning that it

distorts sensory perceptions. The intoxicating part of the plant lies

mostly in its strong-smelling, sticky, golden resin. This is given off by

the hemp flowers, especially those of the female plant. The resin protects

the plant from heat and helps it stay moist during its reproductive cycle.

Many users describe two phases of marijuana intoxication: initial

stimulation, giddiness, and euphoria, followed by sedation and pleasant

tranquillity. Mood changes can often accompany altered perceptions of time

and space and one's bodily dimension. The hemp plant can be found growing

as a weed or as a cultivated plant throughout the world, in many soils and

climates, with the more potent varieti


making it unlike that of any other psychoactive drug. There are also four

the second century B.C.E. and was used in China as an anesthetic five

were capable had more to do with white racist imaginings than with facts.

drug any way possible. Marijuana was smuggled across the Mexican border in

brought to Brazil by black slaves from Africa. After spreading throughout

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