Medical Marijuana
Marijuana: A dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the hemp plant. When someone says ganja, cannabis, bung, dope, grass, rasta, pot, or weed, they
are talking about the same subject: marijuana, which is a growing debate in America. The debate is
whether marijuana is for personal, or to better help the ailing or ill from suffering. Help the
sufferers recover from feeling pain with diseases such as: AIDS, forms of cancer and also glaucoma.
So, why is it illegal in the first place? During the first decades of the century, opium
was made illegal, to kick out Chinese immigrants who flooded the workforce. Cocaine was
made illegal to repress and control the blacks. As for marijuana, it was made illegal in
order to control Mexicans in the Southeast that kept bringing this new unheard-of drug into the U.S.
(Marijuana: Fact for teens) Some states were afraid that marijuana would be used as a
substitute drug for hard drug......
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