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ARRoGANT CoURiERS WiTH ESSaYS
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Grade Level: Type of Work Subject/Topic is on:
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[ ]6-8 [ ]Class Notes [Report on marijuana. ]
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[ ]9-10 [ ]Cliff Notes [ ]
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[x]11-12 [x]Essay/Report [ ]
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[ ]College [ ]Misc [ ]
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Dizzed: 07/94 # of Words:1876 School:Public State:NY
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>Chop Here>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ>ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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Marijuana
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In this report I will show you my views on Marijuana, if it should be
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legal, for medical and/or recreational purposes.
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Marijuana has many names: Dope, Marihuana, Ganja, Pot Mary Jane,
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Cannabis Sativa (Scientific) to name a few.
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Marijuana originated in the middle east (Taiwan, Korea). China plays
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an important part in Marijuana's history. Hoatho, the first chinese
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physician to use Cannabis for medical purposes as a painkiller and
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anesthetic for surgery. In the Ninth Century B.C., it was used as an
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incense by the Assyrians Herbal, a Chinese book of medicine from the second
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Century B.C., was first to describe it in print. It was used as an
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anesthetic 5,000 years ago in ancient china. Many (*) ancient cultures
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such as the persians, Greeks, East Indians, Romans, and the Assyrians for
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many things. These were what they used it for: the control of muscle
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spasms, reduction of pain, and for indegestion. Imagine that if they still
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practiced this, instead of taking an Alka Seltzer after you had mom's Chili
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or Tacos, you might be sitting in the living room on the LAY-Z Boy, smoking
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a joint or however they would take it. The folk medicine of Africa and Asia
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have used it as an herbal preparation. A "mythical" and "legendary"
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pharmacist and emperor Shen Nung thought using it as a seditive was all
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right. In 2,700 B.C. that same "mythical" emperor said it helped female
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weakness, gout, rheumatism, malaria, beri-beri (?), contipation, and
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absentmindedness.
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In 1979 (A.D.) Carlton E. Turner visited China and found marijuana was
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not in use in formal medical places. J. D. P. Graham of the Welsh National
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School of Medicine wrote, "One not need take to seriously the anecdotal use
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of it's use for many purposes in China or by the Hindus in the
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pre-Christian Millennia ...and by the Arabs!" In 1890 in England's "Lancet"
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said cannabis extract was good for neuralgia, fits, migraine and
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psychosomatic disorders but not for rheumatic conditions. It is not easy
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to tell the dosage because of the variations in potency and the
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irregularity in absorbtion. The time delay before the onset of the
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possible effects of marijuana lowered it's popularity as a medicine as did
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the introduction of a variety of new and better medicines like aspirin,
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morpheine (habit forming), chloral, barbituates tranquilizers, and when it
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got on the list of drugs thought by the world community to require legal
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restrictions.
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Our first President, George Washington, grew cannabis on his
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plantation. The cannabis he grew was more fibrous and is better known as
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hemp. Hemp was used to make rope, twine, paper and canvas (the word
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"canvas" comes from Cannabis) and was an important crop in the american
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colonies. In Jamestown, Virginia it was grown for it's fiber qualities in
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1611. (Snyder, 1985) The U.S. Pharmacopeia had it listed as a useful
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medicine from the year 1870 to 1941. A Pharmacopeia is "a book of
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directions and requirements for the preparations of medicines, generally
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published by an authority; a collection or stock of drugs." This tells us
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the U.S. Pharmacopeia was an authority on the use of drugs for medical
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purposes, and said that the use of marijuana for said purposes was helpful.
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The U.S. Pharmacopeia last listed cannabis ("the dried flower tops of the
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pistillate plants of cannabis sativa") in 1936.(Lovinge,1985,p434) That
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years epitome of the pharmacopeia and the national formula described the
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drug for physicians thus:"a narcotic poison, producing a mild delirium.
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Used in sedative mixtures but of doubtful value. Also employed to color
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corn remedies." The next pharmacopeia released in 1942 (I gather they were
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relaesed every six years) did not have cannabis sativa in it. "The 1937
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U.S. dispensatory said:"Cannabis is used in medicine to relieve pain,
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encourage sleep, and to soothe restlessness. We have very little definite
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knowledge of the effects of therapeutic quantities, but in some persons it
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appears to produce a euphoria and will often relieve migrainic headaches.
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One of the great hindrances to the wider use of this drug is the great
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variability and the potency of different samples of Cannabis which renders
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it impossible to approximate the proper dose of any individual smaple
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except by clinical trial. Because of occasional unpleasant symptoms from
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unusually potent preparations, physicians have generally been overcaustious
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in the quantities administered. The only way of determining the dose of an
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individual preparation is to give it in ascending quantities until some
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effect is produced. (The Book suggested using a fluid extract - powdered
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cannabis in solution, 4/5 alcohol - three times a day, starting with two
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or three minims.)"(Lovinge,1985,p434)
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Extracts, tinctures, and herbal packages of cannabis manufactured by
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many drug companies, was available in any pharmacy until 1941 when "The two
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main professional directories of drugs in the United States" dropped
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it.(Snnyder 1985,p38) It is still used as a medicine in the Middle East and
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Asia, and is completely legal in Amsterdam. Since the 19th Century, it has
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been recognized as as intoxicant in Europe, and an intoxicant for many
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centuries in Central and South America, and in Asia. "An 1870 Book called
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"The Hasheesh Eater" by Fitz Hugh Hudlow, discussed the intoxicating
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properties of marijuana."(Snyder,1985,p39) Mexican farm workers emigrating
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to the United States smoked marijuana regularly, and the surrounding
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population..." quickly followed.
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California and Utah were the first to call it a narcotic and outlawed
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it completely except for mecial purposes. "From 1914 to 1931, 29 States, 17
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of them West of the Mississippi made it a criminal offense to possess or
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use it."(Snyder,1985,p40) An army report from 1925 concerning the Panama
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Canal Zone said it wasnt habit forming and no steps should be taken to keep
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it from being sold or used. The Uniform States Narcotic Act said all
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states should control drug distribution. "By 1937 marijuana use was
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restricted by law" (Snyder,1985,p42) and the Marijuana Tax Act was signed
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by President Roosevelt. This act was made to collect more taxes and locate
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people selling marijuana. You had to pay $1 for medical use and $100 for
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recreational use as tax. This was a large factor why doctors quit using it
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as a medicine. "The Narcotics Drug Control Act of 1965 increased the
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existing penalties for selling and distribution of marijuana and heroin..."
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(Snyder,1985,p46) The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana
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Laws (NORML) was founded in 1970.
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Just the facts Ma'am: It is illegal to own or sell marijuana. It is a
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misdemeanor not a felony. Penalties vary widely in each state, for
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growing and selling it is almost always a felony. It can cause cancer in
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the lungs and the throat IF smoked. "Among the reasons to suspect
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potentially injurious effect of cannabis use on the lungs, pointed out it
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"the almost ubiquitous occurrennce of throat discomfort and irritation
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associated with marihuana smoking" (Lovinge,1985,p15)but the same
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carinogens are present in tobacco smoke. Marijuana takes away the
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discomfort and nausea associated with chemotherapy taken to stop the
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growth of cancer. It also helps people with glaucoma and it keeps them
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from going blind. It doesn't lessen feelings and pain, it heightens them.
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Users say they hear things better, and they see details they have never
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seen before. If made legal, it could be regulated by the U.S. government
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(Food and Drug Administration?) as to how potent it would be. Or there
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could be a "government monopoly on it controlling the cultivation,
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importation, manufacture, wholesale distribution, and retail sales.
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Controls could also be placed on the quantity, potency,, amount, price,
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time and place of sale, and age of buyers. This would do away with black
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market activity, cost of law enforcement and tax
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revenue."(Snyder,1985,p89) It would also keep alot of people out of
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jail/prison and save the government money.
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Interview with a marijuana user.
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Q: Do you think Marijuana has had any long lasting effects on you?
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A: None besides the effects regular cigarrette smoke does to your lungs.
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Scientific facts prove there are none except the carcinogens produced by
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the smoke. It doesn't cause brain damage like your teachers tell you.
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Q: How do you take it?
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A: Smoke it. I use pipes, bongs, & papers.
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Q: How often? A: Quarter ounce a week, 15-18 joints a month.
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Q: How much does it cost? A: $200 an ounce, $2,500 lb...and thats minimum quality.
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Q: How can you tell quality?
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A: Smoke it.
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Q: How are "Thai Sticks"?
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A: Better than average. $65 1/4 ounce
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Q: Where do you think most marijuana is grown?
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A: 80% of all (in US) marijuana is grown in the US. 20% from Mexico &
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Jamaica In Alaska & Utahyou can have up to an ouce legally. The
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biggest growinng states are the Carolinas, & Texas. It grows wild
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in some places. And cows wont eat it.
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Q: Do you grow any?
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A: Yes
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Q: How many at 1 time (the most)?
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A: 12...check them once a week.
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Q: Are you in NORML?
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A: Yes, South Florida chapter. I'm the secretary.
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Q: Whats the highest price you've ever seen?
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A: $150 1/4 ounce.
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Q: Is sinsimilia good?
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A: Yes $100-125 ounce. thats usually imported.
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Q: can you use a plant more than once?
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A: no. you kill the male plants as soon as you find their sex,
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and harvest the females.
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Q: What kind do you grow?
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A: Average weed.
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Q: How do you get the seeds or what you need to grow them?
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A: They are in the stuff I buy.
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Q: Whats the best kind?
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A: Depends on how it's grown.
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Q: Do you think alot of people smoke weed?
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A: If it was legal & sold for the same price as tobacco (since when
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does tobacco cost $200 an ounce?!?!) it would make 2.1
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BILLION! Tobacco makes 3.1 billion, and alcohol make 1.6 billion.
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(I have NO idea how much 1 ounce of tobacco costs, but it can't
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be more than $10. Marijuana sells for 20 times that much! That
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would be OVER 40 BILLION!)
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Q: Would it be better if legalized?
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A: Yes, another taxable income for the government. Prices would go down.
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The crime factor would be gone. It would take the money out of the
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hands of criminal and put it in the hands of the government. It's not
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addictive, you can't overdose unlike alcohol, but the smoke does cause
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cancer.
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Q: Would less people use it if legalized?
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A: no.
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Q: How much is caught by the government?
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A: 2% of total in U.S. Basically thats the government admittinng
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that they are losing the war on drugs.
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Q: How does it smell?
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A: Usually good, sometimes bitter. a sweet smell.
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Q: THC makes you high right? A: yes, they have found it
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causes no long lasting effects. Water Pipes/bongs remove 80% of the
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smoke
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Q: Do you eat it?
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A: No, eating uses up more. That way isn't cost effective.
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(end of interview)
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Marijuana doesn't cause brain damage. The smoke does cause cancer, but
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so does tobacco. The smoke can be reduced by up to 80% with special
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paraphenalia. We used to have limited knowledge on the subject, now our
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knowledge is increasing. Marijuana doesn't lead to sexual promiscuity all
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the time, but a
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