The_War_Againced_Marijuana.....A_Loosing_Battle

The War Againced Marijuana.....A Loosing Battle THE WAR AGAINST MARIJUANA…..A LOSING BATTLE Marijuana, also known as hemp, pot, grass, weed, hash, chronic, as well as many other slang terms, has been around since 3750 B.C (Brief 1). It was a drug used in ancient times to get a feeling of euphoria. Even in the early 1900’s, marijuana was a socially acceptable drug. However, a man named William Randolph, a popular journalist in America around 1930, began to write articles about “lazy Mexican marijuana smokers raping women and children after smoking the drug” (brief). Since most of the population in prison at the time was minorities, he began to gain the public’s interest about why people were attacking citizens. Randolph was saying it was due to the drug. The public began to believe that if you smoked marijuana, you would perform unspeakable crimes against others as well. As word spread about this evil drug, Harry J. Ainslinger became aware of the publics fear about it. Since he was the new head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (known today as the Drug Enforcement Agency) and a good friend of William Randolph, he decided to put an end to the publics fear and make his friend look like a marijuana, drug, people, united, states, drugs, prison, harmful, www, since, say, oct, netherlands, however, even, available, about, prisons, population, offenders, let’s, legal, illegal, dealers, believe, being, because, arrests, years, year, table, prohibition, once