The positive effects of marijuana are sought after by millions of people that smoke it for recreation.
These smokers experience mood lifts - often a joyous feeling - as part of the many and varied effects of cannabis.

This feeling of well being lasts only a couple of hours or so, but it provides a recess from the everyday lifestyle - and some times, some people really need a little recess.

Taking a little time out gives them a much needed chance to stop the world and let them smell the daisy’s - let them leave burdens on hold for a short time.

Children often refer to recess as their favorite subject in school.

The state and Federal authorities at least agree on one thing - children need recesses as much as they need education.

Why is it so hard for them to see adults need recesses just as much - and probably much more.

Smoking marijuana causes outrageous belly laughs that almost shake the house sometimes.

Everything seems funnier than usual - even things they don’t understand.

This is because a chemical in marijuana causes an affective increase of dopamine in the brain, one of the definite positive effects of marijuana.

This increase of dopamine is the reason for enhanced awareness of the senses - feelings are sharper, sex is more sensual, food tastes better, hearing is sharper, colors are brighter, music is more beautiful.

Is it any wonder why normal people would be attracted to these positive effects of marijuana?

This increase in dopamine is probably the guilty culprit that caused the Mexican migrant workers to seem crazy to people that didn’t know what dopamine is, or the stuff the Mexican’s smoked.

People in the 1930’s was still not very world wise. Most people lived their whole life in the county they were born in, and almost no one traveled far away in their whole life time.

It didn’t take much to get the gossip going about the crazy Mexicans, who were indeed, not at all dangerous or crazy.

Marijuana has been grouped with hard drugs and labeled as an illicit drug in the United States.

The labeling of marijuana is not only a shame, it is the most disrespectful government labeling ever made.

The people responsible for this crime has long gone to their graves, but the same authority’s live on in corporations and family inheritances.

The same reasons still exist. These same rich corporations refuse to allow hemp to be grown for fear it will corner markets they make fortunes with for all these 74 years.

So far they have been able to keep up the charade and keep hemp blackballed through the insulting claims against marijuana.

Marijuana is not even a drug, as the Federal authorities have labeled it.

This herb called marijuana is one of the most versitial herbs. The positive effects of marijuana is still being discovered, and the already discovered list is longer than for any other one herb - or any dozen other herbs combined.

It has also been proven that people who use alcohol, compared to those who use marijuana, are more likely to be violent, aggressive, and dangerous. Alcohol is more harmful to society than marijuana. the only bad effects of marijuana are blurry vision and constant hunger. (Which helps bulimia and anorexia)

Here is the known list of positive effects of marijuana:

Appetite stimulator
Sleep enhancer
Relieves eye pressure - glaucoma
Decreases muscle spasms
Chronic pain reliever
Stops convulsions
Nausea relief - relief from vomiting
Also, the health effects of cannabis are well-documented in the treatment of:
Epilepsy
Multiple sclerosis
Arthritis - relieves stiffness and swelling
AIDS and HIV
Anxiety and panic attacks
fibromyalgia - relieves pressure and chronic pain
Gout - relieves swelling and pain in legs and feet
Parkinson’s - help muscular tremors and pain
Sexual dysfunction
Nowhere in medical history has anyone died from marijuana-induced heart failure -

And no human has ever overdosed on marijuana - the stories that are being told, are told by people that overdosed on hard drugs, and used a little pot after the fact, so they could blame the pot for the end results - nothing but lies and propaganda.

Believe it or not, a Harvard study released on April 17, 2007 shows that the active ingredient in marijuana, THC, cuts tumor growth in common lung cancer in half and significantly reduces the ability of the cancer to spread!

Researchers at Harvard tested the chemical THC in both lab and mouse studies. They say this is the first set of experiments to show that the compound, THC actually activates naturally produced receptors to fight off lung cancer. The researchers suggest that THC or other designer agents that activate these receptors might be used in a targeted fashion to treat lung cancer.

Although a medical substitute of THC, known as Marinol, has been used as an appetite stimulant for cancer patients and other similar treatments, few studies have shown that THC might have anti-tumor activity.

Of course there will be people who will try to get into dispenseries, and sometimes there will be robberies, but robberies happen to every kind of business. This could open up jobs for people and the use of hemp to make products will make more jobs and profits for people nationwide. Also using hemp would lighten up on timber use. Timber will still be used, but hemp will be a secondary choice for those who want to be more eco-friendly.

*HERE IS THE INTERESTING PART* The only clinical trial testing THC as a treatment against cancer growth was a recently completed British pilot study. For three weeks, researchers injected standard doses of THC into mice that had been implanted with human lung cancer cells, and found that tumors were reduced in size and weight by about 50 percent in treated animals compared to a control group. There was also about a 60 percent reduction in cancer lesions on the lungs in these mice as well as a significant reduction in protein markers associated with cancer progression.

Also the government can use this as a way to make money. If they set the rules of use as:
1. Anyone 18 and older can use it with recommendation from a doctor or psychologist.
2. Tax it $2 per ounce.
3. No more than 7 plants can be grown at a time, while taxing the plant by height at $2 per foot.
4. No personal selling. (no exceptions)
5. Per every ounce of cannabis produced, grower must pay a $2 harvesting fee.
6. No driving under the influence.
7. Treat it as if it were alcohol.

8. Pharmacies would be filling prescriptions for so many people, the they would be guaranteed to make a fortune for themselves. (Mainly talking to Phyzer) 
9. Phyzer would most likely become the largest pharmacy chain in America. 
10. If the economy goes down, pharmacies and the government would have a fall back plan to still make money.

Not only will legalizing marijuana help people with a great deal of problems, the government will be able to make a great deal of money. Thanks for reading my petition, and i hope you see all of the great effects this can cause.

Here is a few documentaries to back up most of what i said with more information about the substance and the effects and history about it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O5scWXRans&feature=related​

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSKJrgGqx_E&NR=1​

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6kJkqx9A6A&NR=1​

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hqFYC8pVP0&list=FL2yqM2YeGghDTNcCrlbXSGg&index=1&feature=plpp