high school students graduated in 1995 without ever trying it. Approximately 33% of people who try it become regular users within three to five years. Smugglers traveling to the U.S.A. from Columbia, Jamaica, and Mexico bring in five billion dollars worth each year. Recently a large ship was spotted off of the U.S. coast unloading thirty-three tons of marijuana onto American soil. There have been over 9 million arrests for marijuana-law violations in the United States since 1965, with another arrest every 2 minutes. Over 80% of these arrests are for possession for personal consumption, according to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. Many of the 20% that are labeled "sale/manufacturing" in the FBI's report actually involve cultivation for personal use or possession of an amount large enough (usually over an ounce) that the police infer possession with "intent" to distribute, even though it might actually have been for personal consumption.But in Singapore and Malaysia it's another story. There, the death penalty is handed out to anyone in possession of drugs. In twenty years two hundred and fifty people have been hung for possession.Marijuana can be used for more than just the illegal use of getting high. As you have read, it helps in medicine and the stem can be used to make clothes or rope. Marijuana is one of the mildest drugs out there and the one of the only drugs that serves another purpose besides a "trip" or a "high"....
