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Legalization and the "War on Drugs"

For roughly a century, the United States government has been putting their priorities out of order by placing more important things off to the side in order to fight a "war" on drugs. More recently, the "War on Terrorism" has been pushed aside several times to capture and prosecute the real criminals, marijuana smokers. They have even started lumping cannabis users into the same pile as terrorists. Shortly after 9-11, commercials were run saying if you buy marijuana, you support terrorism (probably because terrorists come from Middle Eastern countries which are hashish-smoking cultures). This "war" began to gain momentum during the 1920's. America was worried about the new Chinese immigrants and the opium that was being brought over by them. So in Europe, an opium conference was held where U.S. delegates asked if there were any other drugs that should be put with opium in regards to danger and addiction. An Egyptian delegate mentioned a drug......

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