s actually been grown by various societies for thousands of years (Graham 4). From the mid-1930s into the mid-1960s in the United States, marijuana was treated as a dangerous drug. Following the lead of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, congressional hearings on the 1937 Tax Act pictured marijuana as a "national menace" like to heroin (Himmelstein 4).
Much is known about the health effects of the drug. In fact, few drugs have been so extensively studied and for such a long time. The myths of the 1930s and 1940s about marijuana--that marijuana is addictive, causes insanity, and will eventually lead to homic
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