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Legalizing Marijuana
Title: Legalizing Marijuana
Category: Law & Government / Government & Politics
Details: Words: 284 | Pages: 1.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Legalizing Marijuana
Marijuana has been used throughout history in many different cultures to change mood,
perception, and consciousness - in other words, to get high. Its effects range from increasing
creativity to provoking mystical experiences, to heightening the capacity to feel, sense and share.
After alcohol, it is the most popular of what are called "recreational drugs." It has been used
around the world for other purposes. In some primitive tribes of South America, Africa, and
India, "cannabis" …showed first 75 words of 284 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 284 total…in the 9th century. As
early as 1611, marijuana was cultivated for its fiber in Jamestown, Virginia, in which they would
fine people for not growing the plant and reward you if you did grow the plant in some cases. In
19th century America, it was used by the medical profession for treating spastic conditions,
headaches, labor pains, insomnia, and menstrual cramps. It is still used as a medicine in the Middle
East and in Asia.
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