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COMMENT AND OPINION
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KICK ANOtRSON
Legal Pot Crops Reap Economic, Health Benefits
By Andy T Hopkins
• The Emory Wheel
Emory U
Su back for .t minute and let - talk
Mime botany The drug w arts raging. and
now is the time for all good men to legal
ize marijuana Current I S marijuana
laws were passed in 1937 on the basis of
ignorance, fear and greed and recent
[Kill' show that most \mencaits would
choose thorough drug education over
across-the-board drug legalization
last's consider the myths:
1 Marijuana is harmful to one’s
health
It’s true that smoking anything i
harmful tonne’s health But marijuana,
like any other herb or consumable plant,
is llest when mixed with food and non
alcoholic drink file illegality, and sub
sequent black market pricing of the -ul>
stance. has facilitated the smoking of it.
as smoking requires much less marijua
na to achieve the desired effects
Marijuana has been used in ~ome form
since It000 H (' to relieve tension,
headache^. spastic episodes nr nervous
disorder- insomnia, labor pains
arthritic pain and i.mntiess other .dilu
tions (In Is recently ha- marijuana Ikvii
lumped into the -ami* catepory with dan
gerous and addictive drops As a result
ot panic and misinformation, (impress
was led to lielieve that marijuana was to
tie the "new killer drup" that would drive
main fine American children to
"Murder1 Insanity’ Death’" when
actually it made folks feel relaxed, con
tent. more aware and mas In- even a hit
h unpry
2 I-epah/ation of the plant would cre
ate new marijuana addicts
f alse The substance has never been
proved to have phs sically addicting qual
ities. and I’ve never heard of it killmp
anyone, even when smoked in excessive
quantities lake any other material
source of pleasure, a lepal, manjuana
based food or drink product would lie
habit -forming. but stoppmp consump
tion would not cause any withdrawal
Now let us move on to the positive
thing' marijuana legalization would
bring about
1 Renewed availability of the hemp
plant ()nce w idely used lor fabrics. rope'
and oils, hemp the 'talk, or part of the
plant that doesn't get you high was
made illegal by the government along
with marijuana.
Kconomic benefit to American farm
ers Not to mention the lax revenue the
government could collect olTof the retail
'.ties of the substance, farmers would
have a field day sorry, I had to* with
legalized marijuana It is already a high
ranking cash crop in many states. ><>
legalization would simply make farmers
incomes more consistent and less subject
to the whims ol pesticides and flame
throwing helicopters Amber waves of
grain alcohol soon would be replaced
with more soil-enriching. all-American
leaves of grass
■ It hile this is one student is t teu. t < a
like to hear vour opinion. Send vourarm
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VIEWS
Should the U.S. military
services allow women in
combat?
111 we October issue ot u The national College newspaper we asked students ttieir
'eeimgs aoout tne U S military allowing women to participate n comDat Sixty-tour
percent ot students said women should De allowed to participate while 34 percent
sard the. should not When the results are looked at by sen we find males nearly
evenly split on this issue — 51 percent yes and 49 percent no — whereas 82 percent
ot temaies favor allowing women to participate in combat
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Yes or you're reprtxluc
mp the proteetiomstie racket
that's been pomp on for cen
turies that is, women star at
home and men protect them. "
BeOi Turner
Harvard U
u
So. they shouldn't unless
women cun hi c iif> to the some
standards as the men hare for
combat you know, like so
manx push ups or sit ups. ~
Eltzabetfi Lenkey.
'/irgma Tecfi
66
/ say yes. I feel if they want
the same rights as all the men.
they should not 'only > allou .
hut thex should he required to
/mi rt in pate."
Jett Odom.
U ot Maryland. College Park
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