... effectively bans needle exchange programs (since they would be giving needles to drug users who are banned from having them). The study concluded that access to clean needles would reduce blood borne viruses in injection drug users. The legalization of ... unwarranted practice[s]" by the legal authorities of the alcohol prohibition era. (www.ottawacitizen.com) There was even a time when undercover police officers selling drugs to would-be buyers was called entrapment. Times have changed, however, and Supreme Court judges have, over the years, cleverly ruled constitutional exemptions ... ...

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... Therefore, in the 1930's, discussion about marijuana was forbidden in all public schools, and from 1934 to 1956, the Motion Picture Association of America banned all films showing the use of narcotics (www.legalize.com). The strategy did not work as well as hoped, so anti-marijuana groups adopted ... need it, but legalizing marijuana for medical purposes only would allow patients to have another alternative when currently legal drugs are not working. Marijuana is unlike most other illegal drugs as it has the ability to heal. Marijuana cannot cure any diseases, but it can bring relief from...

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