Marijuana, A Growing Acceptance

I haven't written in a couple of days. Sort of a writers block but I was trying to do some research on marijuana. A touchy subject here in America, but with a growing liberal population this subject is becoming even more prevalent. Colorado and Washington have legalized it for recreational use, and twenty-one states and D.C have legalized it for medical purposes.

You can say the growth of its acceptance is slow, but steady here. The growth of the internet and people acceptance of it has helped the legalization movement. I say the internet because people can express the ideas and share them with other people. Music and Pop Culture has influenced the new millennium children in a way that has never been seen before. More and more teens and young adults listen to the music constantly bombarding them with drug references and drug use. This bombardment helps reinforce the growing acceptance of drug use, specifically marijuana, here in America. People today know that marijuana can't kill. That is has a multitude of medical uses. Even though congress placed into the Schedule 1 class with no medicinal value. Petitions have been filed to the wonderful cops over at the Drug Enforcement Administration, since 1972. This petition was to remove marijuana from the Schedule 1 class, but this bold move ultimately failed. Gotta love the DEA, so open-minded! One more topic that is equally as important as the legalization of this PLANT is the decriminalization of it. Too many people can't get jobs because they use marijuana and cruelly being sent to prison. Marijuana is a great medical herb, less addictive than alcohol and guess what no one dies from it! No overdoses! Innocent men and women being sent to prisons for possessing a plant. NO plant should be made illegal. That is mans ego suppressing the earth we live on and it is wrong. The only reason it was made illegal was because an owner of a lumber company saw the use of marijuana as a stronger fiber than wood. Everything made from hemp is a better product and a stronger product. Clothing, food and beverages, paper, plastics, building supplies, fuel, and chemical cleanup. All these are just some of the uses for hemp. The owner of the lumber company financed propaganda to make marijuana illegal and corner the fibers market. So go out and vote, sign petitions do research on how you can do be active in this movement.