Legalization of Marijuana

Marijuana, also known as Cannabis, is a variety of the hemp plant (cannabis sativa) found naturally in India. The plant itself has many uses: the hemp seed can be eaten to provide a highly nutritious source of protein; the stalk of the plant can be woven in to cloth, or pulped and turned into paper; and, of course, the flowers, buds, and leaves of the cannabis plant (known as marijuana) are often smoked, mainly due to their psycho-active effects. In this country, along with many others, the possession of cannabis is illegal, but people have been campaigning for the decriminalization of cannabis for some time now and recently there has been a lot of public debate about the legalization of marijuana. Many arguments supporting this are: marijuana has many medical uses, it does not lead to violence, and the government spends billions of dollars a year to make it a criminal offense.
Marijuana has thousands of possible uses as a medicine - before the United States criminalized marijua...