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5 pages in length. The issues surrounding marijuana are both varied and complex. Depending upon one's personal position, marijuana may represent the complete moral decay of contemporary society or it may denote a painkilling substance for cancer patients. Even concerns as far removed as hemp products have given new light to the ongoing debate over marijuana and its usage. Historically, marijuana has been associated with a specific type of social culture: flower children, beatniks and hippies. Only in relatively recent times has the drug been more widely accepted and utilized for various purposes. The writer discusses that inasmuch as its effect is often numbing to the senses, marijuana has demonstrated itself to offer more than a quick high. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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society or it may denote a painkilling substance for cancer patients. Even concerns as far removed as hemp products have given new light to the ongoing debate over marijuana
and its usage. Historically, marijuana has been associated with a specific type of social culture: flower children, beatniks and hippies. Only in relatively recent times has the drug
been more widely accepted and utilized for various purposes. Inasmuch as its effect is often numbing to the senses, marijuana has demonstrated itself to offer more than a quick
high. Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- as well as the other Supreme Court Justices -- prides herself on her ability to judge a
situation holistically rather than by segment, which serves to address the entire issue as one and prevent any one specific aspect from being overlooked. However, all the people do
not adopt this perspective, inasmuch as Ginsburg has a certain way of drawing out the agitated masses when she has ruled in a particularly unpopular direction. Case in point
was Carl Eric Olsen vs. Drug Enforcement Administration in June of 1989. Olsens request was to be allowed to employ marijuana as a religious sacrament; indeed, the priest of
the Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church saw nothing wrong with its utilization as long as it was under the direction of the church. Yet Ginsburg did not take the same
stance as Olsen, commenting that the First Amendments free exercise of religion guarantee "does not require the requested exception, and that petitioner (Olsen) was not denied equal protection-establishment clause rights
by the governments refusal" (Mikuriya mikuriya.html). This particular case really infuriated the religious community to the point of people hurling accusations of bigotry
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