Is The Illegalization Of Marijuana Valid? :: pot should be legal

Is The Illegalization of Marijuana Valid?The debate over the legalization of Cannabis sativa, more commonly knownas marijuana, has been one and only(a) of the most heated controversies ever to occur in theUnited States. Its use as a medicine has existed for thousands of years in manycountries world coarse and is documented as far back as 2700 BC in ancient Chinesewritings. When someone says ganja, cannabis, bung, dope, grass, rasta, or weed,they are talking about the same subject marijuana. Marijuana should belegalized because the government could earn money from taxes on its sale, itsvalue to the medical world outweighs its abuse potential, and because of itsimportance to the paper and clothing industries. This fill should be takendespite efforts made by groups which say marijuana is a harmful drug which willincrease crime rates and backsheesh users to other more dangerous substances.     The actual story behind the legislature passed against marijuana isqu ite surprising. According to Jack Herer, author of The Emperor Wears NoClothes, the acts rescue about the demise of hemp were part of a largeconspiracy involving DuPont, Harry J. Anslinger, commissioner of the FederalBureau of Narcotics (FBN), and many other influential industrial leading such asWilliam Randolph Hearst and Andrew Mellon. Herer notes that the Marijuana appraiseAct, which passed in 1937, coincidentally occurred just as the decoricatormachine was invented. With this invention, hemp would have been able to takeover competing industries close instantaneously. According to Popular Mechanics,"10,000 acres devoted to hemp will produce as much paper as 40,000 acres ofaverage forest pulp land." William Hearst have enormous timber acreage so hisinterest in preventing the growth of hemp can be slowly explained. Competitionfrom hemp would have easily driven the Hearst paper-manufacturing company out ofbusiness and significantly lowered the value of his land. Herer even suggestspopularizing the term "marijuana" was a strategy Hearst used in arrange to createfear in the American public. Herer says "The first step in creating hysteriawas to introduce the element of fear of the unknown by using a word that no onehad ever heard of before... marijuana".     DuPonts involvement in the anti-hemp campaign can also be explainedwith great ease. At this time, DuPont was patenting a unfermented sulfuric acid processfor producing wood-pulp paper. According to the companys own records, wood-pulpproducts ultimately accounted for more than 80% of all DuPonts railroad carloadings for the 50 years the Marijuana Tax Act was passed. It should also besaid that two years before the prohibitive hemp tax in 1937, DuPont developed