1. First Steps Toward Marijuana Legalization
From 1937 to the early 1970s the federal government not only classified Marijuana as a drug with no medicinal purposes, they also began criminalizing the possession of the drug. ... "Reefer Madness" and Declining Public Support In addition to waging a personal war on opiate type drugs, Henry J. ... For the first time the federal government fails to acknowledge any medical uses of Marijuana, even though the government used Marijuana for pain management through several wars. ... According to Porter (2012), who writes for the New York Times, the federal government's war on drugs ...
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