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MARIJUANA? WHAT’S THAT!?
by: Jon Willig
Mr. Jay
per. 6
1-18-08
There is a special plant that seems to have stolen the spot light of the world, a plant which has mesmerized, intrigued, confused, angered, and obsessed thousands of people through out the globe, and through out history. This plant is called the Cannabis Sativa, or otherwise known as Marijuana. Marijuana has been used for medicinal, spiritual, and of course recreational uses almost everywhere; and has been used in a plethora of forms. But how is it used exactly? How long has it been used for? Why is it used, and who uses it? What is Marijuana!?
The History
Man kind has been using marijuana for about 5,000 years. The earliest known use of Marijuana happened in China and Central Asia in about 3,000 B.C.E., and it was there in India that it acquired its name “The Indian Hemp Plant”, or Cannabis Sativa, and also its reputation as a recreational tool and pleasure drug. However, contrary to the thousands of years of marijuana use by man, it just became illegal in the United States in 1937. It was the creation of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in 1930 that marked the legal end of Marijuana; for with the end of the National Prohibition of alcohol for the United States nearing an end, and state after state adopting some sort of anti-marijuana laws, it was then that Prohibitionists, specifically the head of FBN Henry Anslinger, set their sights on the Cannabis plant. We well cover what legal actions occurred in the 1930’s and 40’s later, but socially what happened then was just as extreme as the laws. Strict, intense anti-Marijuana propaganda was everywhere. Flyers and supposed “official” test results were everywhere saying that if you smoked Marijuana you would become and insane, murdering rapist! Even though this all is obviously false now a days, back then those who had used Marijuana before dared not speak only...
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