Weed is Not So Bad, MMMkay?

Marijuana Legalization


We live in the land of the free, free to say what we want, to buy what we want, and to do what we want. One can get drunk, smoke a cigarette, and shoot a gun all at the same time with no worry of being punished(unless of course any of these actions harms someone else). These things are all dangerous, and yet all legal. However, if one was to grow a plant(marijuana) in his or her backyard and smoke whatever that plant yielded, they could be arrested. Who is the government to tell me that a naturally occurring, organic plant is illegal to smoke, eat, or grow?
Marijuana or hemp cultivation has been practiced for thousands of years by hundreds of civilizations. Our own government in its early day’s used hemp for making rope, baskets, and paper. Today the government considers marijuana a narcotic and even considers medicinal use illegal. In 1937, the federal government passed the Marijuana Tax Act, which made nonmedical use of marijuana illegal...