Essay Archive - Legalization of Marijuana
Legalization of Marijuana
What is marijuana? According to Harvard Medical Professor Lester
Grinspoon, it is a "miracle drug", one that prevents blindness, acts as an
appetite stimulant for AIDS patients, and prevents muscle spasms in epileptics.
When speaking of the same plant, head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics for
over thirty years, Harry J. Anslinger said that this "evil weed" led to killings,
sex crimes and insanity. How can two such highly respected experts have such
night and day outlooks on the same thing? While Anslinger presided as America's
leading anti-drug official his McCarthyis....
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