The leaves of this plant are smoked but the most highly prized part of the plant is the top, smoked by rolling inside tobacco paper or placing in a pipe. ... Indeed, the plant readily spreads to additional territory. ... Characteristically, those under the influence of marijuana show bad coordination and impaired ability to perform skilled acts. ... The plant may be dried and used for intoxication, or as resin can be collected from the plant by compressing the plant into a brick. ... These ways include inhaling the fumes by smoking the plant, or by eating the plant baked into brownies called A...

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Marijuana, as most people commonly know it, is really a plant called hemp, or "cannabis sativa". There are other plants called hemp, but cannabis hemp is the most useful of these plants. "Hemp" is any durable plant used since prehistory for many purposes. ... The cannabis plant also produces three other very important products that other plants do not; these can be made into some usable form: seed, stems, and chemicals. ... Authorities manufactured this lie during the first "Reefer Madness", in order to scare men into thinking that they would lose their manly characteristics after using the ...

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With the decision in Colorado to legalize marijuana not only for medical use, but for recreational use as well and Washington State considering the same, the question arises: Is marijuana legalization right for America? My own view is that in the case of a medical necessity, possibly, if there are no other alternatives, but in the case of recreational use absolutely not. This paper will weigh the pros and cons on each side of this debate and show that although there may be some benefit to legalization, the negative repercussions far outweigh those benefits. One of the premises that advocates f...

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In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of M...

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In 1968, when American soldiers came home from the Vietnam War addicted to heroin, President Richard Nixon initiated the War on Drugs. More than a decade later, President Ronald Reagan launches the South Florida Drug Task force, headed by then Vice-President George Bush, in response to the city of M...

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