The United States has expended hundreds of billions of dollars waging a 40 year war on drugs that is responsible for the incarceration of 500,000 of our fellow Americans. Drugs are a factor in the lives of many American, despite the enormous waste of money and lives, drugs are easily available as ever. Drugs are a part of most home life, they are in the medicines cabinets; in bedrooms of parents and children, young children also observe their parents consuming alcohol and on occasion some of these parents may use marijuana in the presence of their children. While other children watch their parents cooking Meth; drugs are a part of million children’s in school, they are sold, bought, and used in bathrooms and in parking lots. Drugs are issues
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We are educated that there is a pill, a drink, or a cigarette for every real or imagined pain, trouble, or problem, and that the more of these substances we use, the better off we will be. The warmongers who are against decriminalization of marijuana, say it is for the safety of the kids, yet high school children can easily obtain whatever they are looking for in this unregulated market. Fifty percent of high-school seniors will try marijuana before they graduate. The issue of addiction touches most families; almost everyone has a family member that has struggled with cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine or prescription drugs. …show more content…
There are references to the plant in some of the earliest cities in the history of the world. While its origins go back to natural growth in central Asia, cannabis spread by human hands all across the globe for both practical and recreational uses. High-fiber, low-THC varieties have been grown for hemp products practically since the beginning of human agriculture, with records of the recreational use of low-fiber, high-THC strains as far back as Hellenistic Greece. With much of colonial America’s industry centered in agrarian concerns, hemp growth was common enough to have been a crop in the fields of our country’s Founding
We are educated that there is a pill, a drink, or a cigarette for every real or imagined pain, trouble, or problem, and that the more of these substances we use, the better off we will be. The warmongers who are against decriminalization of marijuana, say it is for the safety of the kids, yet high school children can easily obtain whatever they are looking for in this unregulated market. Fifty percent of high-school seniors will try marijuana before they graduate. The issue of addiction touches most families; almost everyone has a family member that has struggled with cigarettes, alcohol, cocaine or prescription drugs. …show more content…
There are references to the plant in some of the earliest cities in the history of the world. While its origins go back to natural growth in central Asia, cannabis spread by human hands all across the globe for both practical and recreational uses. High-fiber, low-THC varieties have been grown for hemp products practically since the beginning of human agriculture, with records of the recreational use of low-fiber, high-THC strains as far back as Hellenistic Greece. With much of colonial America’s industry centered in agrarian concerns, hemp growth was common enough to have been a crop in the fields of our country’s Founding