Marijuana: Should It Be Legal?
Submitted by bubbba32 on November 22, 2008
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Marijuana: Should It Be Legal?
When Society hears the words Marijuana or Opium, its first thought is of the pothead sitting on the couch in the basement hitting a “doobie†or the drug addict in the damp dark doorway pushing a needle into his arm.
The earliest record of man’s use of cannabis comes from the island of Taiwan. The ancient Chinese not only wove their clothes from hemp and used hemp fibers for paper; they also used the sturdy fibers to manufacture shoes.
“To the Hindu the hemp plant is holy. Besides as a cure for fever, bhang has many medicinal virtues… It cures dysentery and sunstroke, clears phlegm, quickens digestion, sharpens appetite, makes the tongue...
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