1. Marijuana in The United States
The Cannabis Controversy For hundreds of years, marijuana has been used for legitimate beneficial purposes. Pro-Legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care and the National Lymphoma Foundation argue that Marijuana should be legalized in order to treat terminally ...
Some argue that this is just legalizing pot for anyone to grow and use, but in accordance with the bill only people with expressed permission from a physician are protected by this law. When the law was passed, the Clinton administration and the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) acted quickly, concerned that Proposition 215 was the first step to legalizing pot for everyone. ... But after these law suits were filed, letter from mayors and other California officials were sent to President Clinton urging him to call off his legal actions. ...
The lawsuit was filed January 14, weeks after several advisors of the Clinton Administration made a public response to Proposition 215 (which would, were it to pass, make it legal for doctors to discuss and recommend marijuana to their patients) at a December 30 press conference. ... Representative Barney Frank (a democrat from Massachusetts) introduced H.R. 1782, a bill which would also attempt to move medicinal marijuana from schedule I to schedule II, eliminating federal restrictions. This bill would not change state laws, allowing individual communities to determine for themselves whethe...
This continued through the Clinton administration with massive federal funding for the war on drugs. ... Between 1978 and 1996, legislatures in 34 states passed laws recognizing marijuana's therapeutic value and there are currently bills in Congress to allow physicians to legally recommend or prescribe marijuana to patients where state law permits. ...
Since the 1960s the plant species Cannabis sativa L., also known as marijuana, has been the topic of much controversy, being illegal, in its medicinal and recreational implementations. The reasons for its illegality, however, are just not sound enough, when they are compared to the potential positiv...