Up in Smoke:
Why America's Drug Policy Must Change

One of the hottest topics of discussion during this last election was the war. Wars are always controversial subjects, as they pit two sides with opposing viewpoints against each other, always drawing strong reactions from both those for and against it. This war is especially contested because it is expensive, unnecessary, and is a blatant attempt by the government to unjustly abuse their power in ways that it isn't supposed to be used.
No, I am not alluding to the war in Iraq, but to the United States Government's war on marijuana and it's users. Although it was federally banned in 1937 (The Social History of Marijuana), the true war had started about twenty years earlier, when a massive influx of Mexican immigrants in the southwest caused some farmers to lose money because their competitors were hiring Mexican immigrants for cheap. They began to racially stereotype Mexicans, pointing to one main difference being that......

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