es and reap tremendous benefits (Norml). If marijuana was reclassified from a schedule one (prohibited), to a schedule two(regulated) drug, doctors could prescribe it easily. Now however, there are about six people in the United States which are legally allowed to use marijuana for medical purposes(Norml). It takes an extreme amount of paperwork and various other inconveniences to even be considered for the federal program. Because of the current drug laws, hemp, the leaves and stalk portion of the cannabis plant, is illegal. Hemp has been used for thousands of years in order to make rope for sailing vessels. Do to the 1937 marijuana tax act which criminalized marijuana, hemp is included in the substances which are illegal to posses. Hemp is a substances that has the potential to be a wonderful cash crop for farmers. It doesnt rape the soil of nutrients like other cash crops such as tobacco, or cotton do. It can be planted in the same soil year after year. It produces fibers which are fifteen times the length of wood fibers, which are the only natural comparatives to hemp(Norml). The optimum system in which drugs would be legalized would be in a sort of system where there would be a government run store where drugs would be sold only to adults. Much the same as the way liquor is sold in many areas of the country today. Drugs would for the most part be out of the reach of children. Drugs would be relatively inexpensive, and within the reach of addicts, who would no longer have to turn to crime in order to obtain them (when was the last time you heard of someone getting mugged in order for the perpetrator to buy beer). People would be allowed to freely grow marijuana and or hemp. Treatment for addicts would be free and easily obtainable. Money would be spent on improving the conditions of schools, roads and other things that Americans really need. There would exist much the same laws for operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs as...
