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legal. It stated that possession without intent to sell shall not be considered

to be a crime, all growers importers shall be regulated and watched over like

a typical industry, public places where marijuana is sold for on premises use

shall be licensed like any alcohol serving bar, and determination of the THC

potency and purity shall be regulated by the U.S. Drug and Food

Administration.

Attempts to legalize have also been made by presidential issued

commissions. A commission issued by president Nixon researched marijuana

and reached a conclusion that it would be okay to decriminalize marijuana.

This, was of course, quickly shot down by the president and the congress.

Jimmy Carter, another president of the United States, also wanted to legals

marijuana.

In the present day there are groups such as, NORML (National

Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws) , that issue petitions and

bills to the DEA and federal government that try to persuade the legalization

of marijuana. NORML compared marijuana to alcohol and reached a

conclusion that alcohol is more lethal than marijuana. Their studies have

shown that prolonged use of marijuana causes lack of ingenuity severe

bronchitis, and it lessens reaction speed. Alcohol has been named for

hundreds of thousands of death in the United States. It causes liver disease, a

severe mental and physical dependance, and depression. Marijuana is only

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psychologically addictive and use of it can be stopped easier than alcohol

abuse. Also no deaths have ever been recorded that were accused by the use

of marijuana.

Marijuana is considered to be a Scheduled I controlled substance. that

means that it is considered to be a drug that can be easily abused. NORML

has made attempts to get the DEA to reschedule marijuana, but they were

rejected. If the opinions of major contributors to the illegal view of marijuana