... now are marijuana and ecstasy. Marijuana is a derivative from the top leaves and flowers of the female hemp plant, which can be readily grown on the fields across the nation and was heavily cultivated in the colonial period. The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 made the use and sale of marijuana federal offenses it was signed into law by Franklin Delano Roosevelt ... Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws has estimated that legalization would produce over forty billion dollars in taxable revenue (NORML 3). In addition to the monetary gain, marijuana could help America's medical patients...

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