... use was on the downfall President Reagan launched the new war on marijuana causing congress to recriminalize marijuana possession, setting a penalty of one year in federal prison for possessing a single joint or less of marijuana. (Glasser 138). With the criminalizing of marijuana the prison systems has been clogged with hundreds of thousands of people for doing a victimless crime. In 1996 marijuana ... receiving cancer chemotherapy found that marijuana smoking reduced their nausea and vomiting (Glasser 143). Advocates for medical marijuana says that marijuana is extremely useful and in...

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