Essay - Legalization of Marijuana Marijuana or Cannabis is Actually a Plant...

LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA

Marijuana or Cannabis is actually a plant, which has the scientific name 'cannabis sativa' and was originally used for ordinary purposes such as ***** fabric making ***** cloth weaving. Some are of the view that it was also used as sails when shipping industry had not become technologically sophisticated. The ***** was also once used for the treatment of psychiatric conditions but after it was banned in ***** country, marijuana was forced to vanish from the medical field **********.

Marijuana became a problem when people started using it as a drug in the form ***** powder. This is because marijuana affects chemical processes in ***** brain and puts a person in a state of elation. But all this is temporary and a person becomes so addicted to th***** drug that he cannot stay away from it. The dangerous impact on marijuana on the brain is also evident ***** ***** fact that *****s users lose conscious control over their bodies and minds during the state of ***** and th***** often leads to improper behavior. Marijuana laws in the United States are very strict but some are of ***** view ***** it is more because of political reasons that actual harmful effects of this drug. But the truth ***** the matter is that ***** does alter brain chemistry in its users, which can often force them ***** indulge in uncharacteristic *****.

HARRY J ANSLINGER, Commissioner of the US Bureau of Narcotics, says, "How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, ***** only be conjectured... No one knows, when he places a m*****rijuana cigarette to his lips, whether he will become a joyous reveler in ***** musical heaven, a mad insensate, a calm philosopher, or a murderer..." (1)

In short, while ***** may relax ***** and help them unwind, the ***** has psychoactive properties ***** thus cannot and should not be legalized. Marijuana is believed to have many ***** uses *****o, for example, there ***** time when doctors were openly using the drug for epilepsy treatment. ***** reason why it can effectively treat ***** symptoms of psychiatric disorders is because ***** alters ***** chemistry ***** thus affects the nervous system, which can bring relief to patients who are suffering from flawed brain processing.

Richard Rudgley writes in The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substance (*****998), "Although ***** ***** it in treating many ***** (ranging ***** epilepsy and hysteria to alcoholism and asthma) ***** demonisation ***** drugs that began with opium was soon to spread to other psychoactive substances, including cannabis...In 1915 California ***** the first state to make it illegal to possess cannabis. By ***** 1920s marijuana (called muggles or moota and later mezz, sassfras or tea; marijuana *****s ***** joints were known, as they still some*****s are, ***** reefers) had become a major 'underground drug'." (2)

*****re is an intense debate going on with regard to legalization of drugs. Like every contr*****sial issue, legalization of marijuana *****