The Legalization of Recreational Marijuana

The rattling word sparks a answer in anyone who hears it. It is the roughly polemical and widely employ extracurricular drug in America. marijuana is a term used to describe the dried flowers and leaves of the cannabis plant. Smoking marijuana releases delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol, also known as THC, which is the ancient mind-altering ingredient in marijuana that produces the feeling of macrocosm high. It has been used both recreationally and medicatively for centuries. There are legion(predicate) accounts of its medicinal qualities in bigeminal historical artifacts. Its use dates prat to 2737 B.C. when the Chinese emperor, Shen Nung, used it for medicinal purposes including malaria, gout, poor memory, rheumatism, and analgesia (Aggarwal). Even though it had been around for thousands of years, smoking marijuana recreationally only began to spread in the United States in the 1920s. racialism and misinformation were the main reasons that it was originally criminalize d in the early 1930s. The chronicle of marijuanas criminalisation is colorful and detailed, entirely generally beyond the scope of this paper. fire J. Anslinger was the first commissioner of the Federal way of Narcotics (which is now the DEA). He was racist and a bigot, which was non preposterous in those days, but since he was in a military posture of power, congress assumed he knew what he was talking around when he stated, Most marijuana smokers are Negroes, Hispanics, jazz musicians, and entertainers. Their hellish music is driven by marijuana, and marijuana smoking by white women makes them want to judge sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and others. It is a drug that causes insanity, criminality, and death the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind (Gerber 9). This alone was not enough to criminalize marijuana, but it emphatically helped the cause. Many state still believe today that marijuana is evil and would definitely vote against its legalization due to preconceived notions suc...