... of, or made with the use of industrial hemp. Things like "paper, insulation, lubricants, plastic, footwear, cooking oils, toiletries, clothing, fuel, varnish, bedding, concrete, car moldings, preservatives, canvasses, paint, laundry detergent, shampoo and conditioner, and even a substitute for some dairy products" (Russell n.p.). Even our forefathers such as Thomas Jefferson were ... kind of crop throughout U.S. history has had such a reputation that it has been used for legal tender? Before the prohibition of cannabis, even car companies had high hopes for this crop. Henry Ford dreamed ...

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... system works. A man was set up and surveyed buying a twenty-dollar sack of pot. After the transaction was made, police swarmed around the man's car and, screaming at him told him, to get out of the car and put his hands up. His person and vehicle were searched and nothing other than the bag was found. This man was probably in his ... pain. The policemen asked the man how long he had been smoking and he responded saying, "just since the cancer treatment". They took him away wearing handcuffs in the squad car to the station and charged him with possession. Is this sick man our enemy? A mi...

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... the War on Drugs. There are many habits much worse than marijuana, one example being cigarette smoking. "Tobacco smoking kills more people each year than AIDS, heroin, crack, cocaine, alcohol, car accidents, fire and murder combined. Tobacco smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the US. Tobacco smokers have 10 times the lung cancer of nonsmokers, twice the ... ,000, while the ratio for alcohol fluctuates between 1 to 4 and 1 to 10. Not only do many people die each year from alcohol poisoning, but alcohol has caused thousands of fatal car accidents. Although, marijuana, ...

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... . To me, I just think of a drug dealer as being a pharmacist, giving their customer what makes them feel good. You never have heard of someone being killed in a car accident, the leading causes of car accident are caused by drunk drivers, and they has still keep alcohol as being legal. More people die because of people who have consume alcohol and done stupid ... things like getting be hide the wheel of a car. You can kill your self and other that are around. Because of all of my points that I have made I feel that marijuana should be legal. ...

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... system, it causes lung disease, it causes birth defects, it causes brain damage, it is addictive, it decreases the drive to excel and succeed, and it is a main cause of car accidents. WELL I HATE TO TELL YOU THIS BUT MOST OF THESE ARE FALSE MYTHS. In a paper written by Lynn Zimmer, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Queens College and John ... field of medicine is the biggest debate of this topic. Marijuana has many medical benefits. It eases nausea, helps control pain such as muscle spasms and spine injuries resulting from car crashes or sports, stimulates appetite, helps prevent s...

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... could be seen, as marijuana would be used as a kind of substitute for alcohol, and is not so much the social drug as alcohol is. The number of violent crimes, car accidents involving serious injury or death would decrease as a result of people substituting alcohol for marijuana. Rather than people showing aggressive behavior as occurs when intoxicated by alcohol, people would ... become much more passive toward fighting and aggressive behavior. Because marijuana actual heightens sense perception, people are better drivers when stoned than when drunk, so the number of car accidents attri...

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... own job. If you are constantly getting high, you are less likely to have the motivation to get these things done. Most jobs that allow you to support a family - have a car, a house, television, electricity "require a college degree." One risk for drug use can be personality factors. The authors of the article "Five-Factor Model Personality Profiles of Drug Users " wrote ... ...

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... number one killer in the USA is tobacco, with over 430,000 deaths per year (The Union). That is more deaths than those caused by AIDS, heroin, crack, cocaine, alcohol, car accidents, fire and murder combined (The Union). The number two killer is alcohol with approximately 8,500 deaths per year (The Union). Marijuana has killed no one. There has been no ... ...

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... could become uncoordinated. Marijuana also affects a persons driving ability by slowing their reaction time. Driving while under the influence of marijuana it is just as likely to be involved in a car accident as driving while under the influence of alcohol. I don't think marijuana should be legalized for any purpose. Or at least not the smoking of marijuana. They already have a pill ... ...

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... away in fields of corn. Tobacco causes 400,000 deaths per year between lung cancer, house fires, second hand smoke and Emphazema. Alcohol causes 40,000 deaths per year between car accidents, liver cancer, alcohol poisoning, bar fights and simple acts of stupidity. Marijuana has caused hardly any deaths. It doesn't really make sense that tobacco and alcohol is legal (and ... ...

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... country's economy. In a period after the American Revolution, the colonial farmers choose to pay taxes with hemp. Hemp fueled automobiles during the period when they were first introduced. Telephones and car parts made of plastic in the late 1930's came from the hemp plant. Regarded as the "most profitable and desirable crop that can be grown,"" in 1937 by Mechanical Engineering ... ...

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... that he was put on to control it. The vomiting was so severe that every morning on his way to school he would have to have his mother pull the car to the side of the road so that he could throw up. He often would miss months of school at a time because he was immensely sick. That was before he ... ...

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... . The effects of marijuana are it leaves a person "high". Some senses don't function as well, it has about the same effects as alcohol but it is not known to cause car accidents and other felonies. Section 38 of Article 4 of the constitution of Nevada states that "The use or possession of three ounces or less of marijuana by a person who has ... ...

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... have been recalled in order for alterations. In the August 1995 issue of consumer reports, twenty- four products were recalled because of possible dangers to the consumer. These products included a car that may lose a wheel while in motion, a hair dryer that poses a fire hazard, and cookies that can cause an allergic reaction. (Consumer Reports, 500) Yet, the sale of cigarettes, known ... ...

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... have been recalled in order for alterations. In the August 1995 issue of consumer reports, twenty-four products were recalled because of possible dangers to the consumer. These products included a car that may lose a wheel while in motion, a hair dryer that poses a fire hazard, and cookies that can cause an allergic reaction. (Consumer Reports, 500) Yet, the sale of cigarettes, known ... ...

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... hot dry areas produce more THC. Marijuana is extremely dangerous to society for many reasons. Marijuana, like alcohol, impairs the user's motor skills. Marijuana affects an individual's ability to operate a car in two ways. First, it alters the individual's concept of time. This makes them feel they have been driving for a long time when in actuality, they have been driving for ... ...

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... is actual high on marijuana. Marijuana causes a distortion of time and space to the brain and therefore becomes very dangerous when a person high on marijuana gets behind the wheel of a car.(Godfrey 34) They have now not only put their life in danger but also the lives of others. Despite the misconception by many that marijuana does not effect a persons driving ... ...

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... was patenting a new sulfuric acid process for producing wood-pulp paper.32 The companies own records state that wood-pulp products accounted for more than 80% of all DuPont's railway car loadings.33 Harry Anslinger would be the man that DuPont used to help in his anti-hemp campaign. Harry Anslinger was appointed to the FBN by Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon ... ...

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... have been recalled in order for alterations. In the August 1995 issue of consumer reports, twenty-four products were recalled because of possible dangers to the consumer. These products included a car that may lose a wheel while in motion, a hair dryer that poses a fire hazard, and cookies that can cause an allergic reaction. (Consumer Reports, 500) Yet, the sale of cigarettes, known ... ...

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... on what can happen to you if you smoke pot. In these commercials it shows that if you smoke pot you can accidentally shoot a friend, run over a child, wreck your car, and if you are a girl you will get felt up when you are high. These commercials are funny to me because I personally think that this stuff is more likely to ... ...

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... such thing as an overdose of marijuana." ( ) This is a great point; when has it been heard that people were fighting because they had too much to smoke, or wrecked their car because they had too much to smoke. Another positive of marijuana, is that it has various medicinal uses. It is used in many ways to help cure several diseases such ... ...

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... back. Cannabis is also useful in treating muscle spasms. Spasms are caused by strokes, cerebral abnormalities, and multiple sclerosis. It can also be caused by spinal cord damage from athletics, car accidents, and other dangerous activity. Millions of Americans suffer from this condition, and yet, there is not a single legal drug that effectively works for this problem. Even surgery can't help ... ...

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... country's economy. In a period after the American Revolution, the colonial farmers choose to pay taxes with hemp. Hemp fueled automobiles during the period when they were first introduced. Telephones and car parts made of plastic in the late 1930's came from the hemp plant. Regarded as the "most profitable and desirable crop that can be grown,"" in 1937 by Mechanical Engineering ... ...

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... decrease, and the War on Terror can be won if marijuana is legalized. Many opposers to legalization argue that if marijuana was legal then crime rate will increase, much more car accidents would occur, marijuana use would lead to more harsher drug use, and that marijuana has no medicinal value. Most of these arguments are myths and have never been scientifically ... ...

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... two parts. The first deals with physical injury and the second with spiritual health. The main physical threat to society is that users under the influence of a drug with crash a car or airplane, or lose control in some way and do harm. People who have recently smoked marijuana do show signs of clumsiness and forgetfulness. They should not operate machinery in ... ...

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