When colonists from Europe came to newly discovered America, they were required by their kings to grow hemp. The hemp was making sails and ropes for their ships. That is just one of the many uses hemp could provide us. While hemp has been replaced as most versatile crop by cotton some years ago i...

Should Marijuana be Legalized? Abraham Lincoln once said, "Prohibition makes crimes out of things that are not crimes." This is true with the prohibition of marijuana: the use of marijuana should not be a crime, but prohibition makes it one. The real crimes are being committed by the ...

To Be Legal Marijuana smokers are generally mildly intoxicated, giggle, laugh, bother no one, and have a good time. They do not stagger or fall, and wouldn't ordinarily attempt to harm anyone. It has not been proven that smoking marijuana leads to crimes of a violent nature or to crimes of...

The marijuana plant and the hemp plant are both from the cannabis family but they serve completely different purposes. The marijuana plant is grown for the buds they produce which carry the psychoactive ingredient, delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinol, aka, THC, which is what causes people to catch a buzz. ...

Twenty three million Americans smoke marijuana on a regular basis. The government spends three billion dollars a year on enforcing the prohibition of the beneficial plant. Yet the prohibition only makes the problem worse by producing a "Black Market", that is profitable to criminals. P...

Mary Jane Legalization and or decriminalization of marijuana has been sought after, unsuccessfully, for the last 62 some-odd years by an ever-growing number of people. These people stem from all walks of life from high school kids to top-level business executives to doctors to musici...

To this day people are still put under the impression that marijuana is a dangerous drug that kills and causes Americas youth to turn to violence and vandalism. What people still don't understand is that marijuana is a very soft substance that is less dangerous and less intoxicating then th...

Natures Gift to Man As billions of trees are cut down each year for paper, pesticides, cotton and non-biodegradable plastics which fill landfill sites, our earth is being destroyed and is not being replenished with new resources. We look for answers to solve our problems yet we have seemingly co...

"Hemp for Victory" The U.S. Department of Agriculture persuading farmers to grow hemp for the war effort in the 1940's coined the slogan "Hemp for Victory." Webster's Dictionary defines hemp as "a genus of widely cultivated annuals, this plant's fiber used ...

The hemp plant is arguably the most useful crop in the world. There are over 25, 000 products made from hemp and it can be grown in a wide variety of climates. So how can such a useful plant be outlawed in America? Ignorance is how. People automatically connect hemp with it's controversial co...

The hemp plant is arguably the most useful crop in the world. There are over 25, 000 products made from hemp and it can be grown in a wide variety of climates. So how can such a useful plant be outlawed in America? Ignorance is how. People automatically connect hemp with it's controversial cous...

Scott Norris English 112 Shelia Bennett March 14, 2000 Legalize It No man should have control about something he or she did not create, but that God created. We have minds, and we will choose for ourselves, whether or not we like it. Marijuana has an excellent medical forte. Marijuana als...

The Legalization of Marijuana The legalization of marijuana has been one of the most discussed topics by politicians recently. Ever since 1937, when marijuana was criminalized, there have been many people who have become successful members of society and still smoked marijuana. These people ris...

Cannabis sativa Nearly every part of the plant Cannabis sativa aka marijuana is used in different forms. This plant grows quickly up to about twenty feet and in many different environments. Its leaves consists of about five jagged edged leaflets, each attached from a slender stem to a thick, hal...