In the past marijuana was required to be grown on most plantations in the southern region. It could be purchased in one ounce packages for only twenty five cents. Further down the time line we find that marijuana is increasingly being used in the inner cities and suburban areas. Marijuana was considers legal in the late 1800's but a bill was passed and marijuana was quickly considered to be illegal. The federal legislation prohibiting marijuana passed at the end of 1937 congressional session was virtually scare enacted. people feared the effects of it and wanted to stop the growth and importation of it. Congress passed the Marijuana Tax Act, which "requires all persons who import, manufacture, produce, compound, sell, deal in, and dispense pay a graduated occupational tax." This tax was an attempt to make it

Several states have lessened their penalties for possession, but none have legalized it. Dr. Tod Mikuriya, from the Indian Hemp drug commission, proposed a list of regulations for the control of marijuana if it were to become legal. It stated that possession without intent to sell shall not be considered to be a crime, all growers importers shall be regulated and watched over like a typical industry, public places where marijuana is sold for on premises use shall be licensed like any alcohol serving bar, and determination of the THC potency and purity shall be regulated by the U.S. Drug and Food Administration.

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Marijuana is considered to be a Scheduled I controlled substance. that means that it is considered to be a drug that can be easily abused. NORML has made attempts to get the DEA to reschedule marijuana, but they were rejected. If the opinions of major contributors to the illegal view of marijuana could be changed, marijuana m

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