In a speech to the Illinois House of Representatives, on December 18, 1840, Abraham Lincoln said, "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. ... Since then Oregon, Washington, Colorado, Alaska, Maine, and Nevada have passed similar laws. ... His strategies would consist of the government exercising strong regulatory powers over all large-scale production and sale of marijuana and to make marijuana available only to competent adults, just the same as alcohol and tobacco. ... (Unanswered) Richard Dennis, the chairperson of the advisory board of the Drug Policy Foundation ...

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The state of Washington reported in May of 2000 that 70% of people in their local prisons were drug related. ... The Rotterdam Police Department superintendent in Amsterdam says; "when there are no coffee shops" (a place where people go to buy marijuana) "they [kids] will go to the illegal houses, where the dealer says, "OK, you want to have marijuana. ... Of these arrests, 87.2% were for possession -- not sale or manufacture. ...

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• Grade Level: High School