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Ok, just finished it. Here we go, unedited, about 23-25 min. long which is the length I need it to be.

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Cannabis and Today

So what now? Cannabis, from this point in history forward, continues to predominate as the most widely used illicit substance in America. So much so in fact that presidents such as John F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter are suspected of use and it can be generally assumed that our two most recent presidents (Bill Clinton and George Bush Jr.) have tried marijuana. The injustice of its continued prohibition is perhaps the most obvious manifestation of corporate influence over governmental decision making. As I have presented to you, hemp played a formidable part in early American Industry and was cornered out of the Industrial market due to the rising lumber, paper, and clothing industries.

Thanks to other countries’ more lax views on the industrial production of hemp, cannabis has been found to be able to produce not only fibrous products, but the means to create an alternative and easily renewable source of fuel that causes minimal damage to the environment. In addition to this, plastics have been recently extracted from the hemp plant, producing an alternative to standard acrylic plastics.
Our United States Government has thrown away a good deal of money researching cannabis in an attempt to justify its extremely huge annual budget pertaining to the continued existence of the DEA and their seemingly endless War on Drugs. These studies, however, have been proven, time and again, to contradict the myths demonizing marijuana, and often conclude that cannabis is far less harmful than the legal alcohol and tobacco.

Despite all this, marijuana is still illegal. It is thanks to the oil and gas companies of today, who propagate wars in the name of money, oil, and pollution that cannabis is still illegal. It is thanks to the lumber and plastic industries, who continue to remove entire forests so that we can continue to have pulp based products when we could have the same exact products which would cause far less harm to the environment if they were simply made out of hemp. It is thanks to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that we have to thank for the lack of cannabis seeds in our health food markets and more importantly, cannabis in our medical facilities. It is thanks to George Bush Jr. who handed out fifty billion dollars to the DEA to fight its drug war this year. And finally, it is thanks to you and me, the American people, who have remained silent on this topic for far too long, that this injustice continues to run rampant and unaccounted for.