e reassurance.” (25) Only ten states ever established programs in which cannabis was used as a medicine.The court returned the case to the DEA for further explanation, but it offered no direct challenge to the central belief that marijuana lacks therapeutic value. As stated by Grinspoon and Bakalar, “Twenty-eight patients whose applications have already been approved will not be supplied with the promised marihuana. Twelve patients now receiving marihuana will continue to receive it. After more than twenty years in which hundreds of people have worked through state legislatures, federal courts, and administrative agencies to make marihuana available for suffering people, these twelve are the only ones for whom it is not still a forbidden medicine.” (25) The DEA issued a final rejection of all pleas for reclassification in March 1992. Although there was an abundant amount of information on the trials of legalizing cannabis, the information was needed in order to portray why marijuana is illegal today. Today cannabis is commonly used for the ”high” or euphoric feeling it causes. The most active ingredient in marijuana is delta-9-tetrahydrocannibinal commonly referred to as THC, which wasn't discovered until the 1960s. This, of course, is when marijuana first got its’ popularity in the United States. Although the drug was widespread at this time, it was nowhere near as potent as it is today. Grinspoon and Bakalar say, “There are three varieties known as bhang, ganja, and charas. The least potent and cheapest preparation, bhang, is produced from the dried and crushed leaves, seeds, and stems. Ganja, prepared from the flowering tops of cultivated female plants, is two or three times as strong as bhang; the difference is somewhat akin to the difference between beer and fine Scotch. Charas is the pure resin, also known as hashish. Any of these preparations can be smoked, eaten, or mixed in...
