Zach Cuffman Professor Wolf Final Paper December 14‚ 2009 Cannabis: The Billion Dollar Crop When most people are asked about their opinion of marijuana‚ not very many actually have a problem with the drug itself. The driving force behind their decision to be against marijuana is based mostly on the fact that it is illegal. TIME magazine held a poll on their website in which they asked their readers if marijuana should be legalized. Given that TIME’s website is not likely to be a full representation
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Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Backgroud Studies For many decades‚ our society have been introduced into many new species of plant or animal that can be produced into new fibre resources. It is very amazing that natural fibre such as kenaf‚ flax‚ jute‚hemp and sisal are in need compared with synthetic fibre which has very huge development in industry. Natural fibre in the nick of time‚ has become new resources of alternatives due to their inherent properties such as ease of fabrication‚ structural control
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English 1302 11 April 2012 Annotated bibliography Anderson‚ Matthew. “ Record Marijuana Arrest Feed The Prison Industrial Complex.” 30 Jan. 2009. Social Medicine. Social Medicine‚ n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2012. Retrieved from http://www.socialmedicine.org/2009/01/30/uncategorized/record-marijuana-arrests-feed-the-prison-industrial-complex/ Matthew Anderson reports that in 2007 the Department of Justice reported the number of drug arrests and how many of those accounted for marijuana. Anderson
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in America for hemp to make clothing‚ ropes‚ and sails in the seventeenth century. This was such a common practice‚ Virginia’s Assembly actually enacted a law requiring every farmer to grow hemp in 1619. This was the first American legislation regarding cannabis. At this time‚ hemp was also recognized as legal tender in Pennsylvania‚ Virginia‚ and Maryland. Hemp was a valuable commodity‚ as it was a versatile product able to be used in several ways. Domestic production of hemp thrived until after
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years: people who say marijuana should be legal and others who are fighting to keep it illegal. Many debates have been had over this issue for many years. Marijuana consists of a mixture of leaves‚ stems and tops of the “Cannabis sativa plant”‚ or hemp plant. Marijuana is also known as grass‚ pot‚ tea‚ or weed. “Both male and female plants contain psychoactive substances called “cannabinoids”. The ingredient in marijuana that produces most of the psychological and physiological effects is 1-delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol
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Cannabis Sativa‚ more commonly known as Marijuana‚ is made up of dried parts of the Cannabis hemp plant and is the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States. For centuries‚ people all over the world have been using marijuana to achieve “euphoria”‚ but the drug has remained illegal in the United States despite countless efforts to reverse the law. In the last few years‚ the legalization of Marijuana became both a prominent and controversial issue in our country and remains an extremely
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decriminalized. There are both harmful and beneficial properties of this drug. But Marijuana can do more harm than good. Many cultures have used it during meditation‚ religious worship‚ and for intoxication. Marijuana itself comes from the Indian Hemp plant. Marijuana is so popular that an estimated one out of every three people in the US have tried it and around
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Top Facts About Marijauna 1.Marijuana is created from the dried‚ shredded flowers and leaves of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa.b 2.Marijuana is the most common illegal drug used in the United States. Approximately 100 million Americans have tried marijuana at least once‚ and more than 25 million have smoked it in the last year. 3According to one national survey on drug use‚ each day approximately 6‚000 Americans try marijuana for the first time. 4.Worldwide‚ it is estimated that about 162 million
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which is illegal. Many people believe that the only use of marijuana plant is that it can get you high‚ which isn’t true. The Marijuana‚ cannabis‚ or hemp plant is one of the oldest psychoactive plants known to humanity. Its history dates back as far as 6000 B.C.‚ when cannabis seeds were used as food in early Chinese traditions. People have used the hemp plant for fabric‚ ropes and even ethanol fuel. The perception of marijuana in today’s society is that marijuana is an illegal drug that leads to increase
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Decriminalization of Marijuana A very controversial drug in society today is marijuana. The controversy is mostly due to the myths that people have created about marijuana’s effects. Opponents of the legalization of marijuana argue that marijuana is a gateway drug‚ more dangerous than alcohol‚ and will increase crime if it is decriminalized. Through studies there is proof that these myths are untrue. Therefore the reason for marijuana’s status as illegal is not actually there. In fact‚ having marijuana
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