Weed
Beginning of paper
Wether you call it Hemp, Mary Jane, Pot, ; it doesn't matter. It is still
Cannabis Sativa, or cannabis for short. And it is still illegal. The use of
marijuana as an intoxicant in the United States became a problem of public
concern in the 1930s. Regulatory laws were passed in 1937, and criminal
pe ....
Middle of paper
.... The chronicle of its 3,000 year history, however, shows that this
"explosion" has been characteristic only of the contemporary scene. The plant
has been grown for fiber and as a source of medicine for several thousand years,
but until 500~ AD its use as a mind-altering drug was almost solely confined in
India. The drug and its uses reached the Middle and Near East during the next
several centuries, and then moved across North Africa, appeared in Latin America
and the Caribbean, and final ....
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