everything from construction materials to paper to clothing. Besides these

materials it also has other uses such as medicinal and relaxation or recreational

purposes. Unfortunately, in the United States we are not allowed to use this

plant of many advantages because our government has cannabis listed as a

controlled substance that is punishable by law to have in ones possession. This

naturally growing plant, which has been used since around the beginning of

civilization up until 1937, is now illegal to grow, distribute, or use because a

small part of it can be smoked to obtain a state of

intoxication.(http://www.natlnorml.org/medical/index.shtml) Although this is only

one use of cannabis it is one of the most prevalent in the United States even

though it is outlawed and serious penalties are given to those caught. The

United States government has declared a massive war against this substance

and many other drugs which is commonly referred to as the "Drug War". This

war has been extremely expensive and largely unsuccessful and has only

slightly slowed the flow of it onto U.S. soil. Although many citizen's and officials

recently, a federally commissioned report by the National Academy of Sciences

to countering glaucoma which is the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. It is

effective anti-emetic. To prove marijuana's effectiveness a legal synthetic drug

agricultural economists say farmers today could gross up to $500 an acre for

sell it. It could be taxed to fund the government just as alcohol and tabacco are

therapeutic in the treatment of a number of serious ailments and is less toxic and

Schedule I [prohibited] drug ... to that of a Schedule II drug ... and regulate

(http://www.natlnorml.org/recreational/testimony99.shtml)

"Federal authorities should rescind their prohibition of the medical use of

most cases is struggling to get by. There is a faction in the U.S. that believes

one cigarette to shooting up heroin? It is just a natural progression for serious

led the Society of Neuroscience to announce that, "Substances similar to or

lessened from the years before. If marijuana was legalized honest people could

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