"Marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind." This quote exaggerated by the Harry J. Anslinger, an anti-drug activist and a former US Representative to the United Nations Narcotics Commission, showed how he used fear to invoke to the public about how marijuana is bad. Marijuana first came about in the United States around 7000-8000 b.c. where the hemp fabric was believed to be the first woven fabric. Around that time …showed first 75 words of 1036 total…

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