The most famous plant and my opinion on where it's headed.

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Marijuana, quickly becoming one of the United states more popular topics of discussion, has what appears to be a 50/50 stand on the viewpoints of it's legalization. I believe, however, that the only reason this statistic is true at all is simply BECAUSE it is dubbed "illegal." I think that most people would have, if not a view of agreement, a lenient attitude towards it if marijuana were legal. However, I disagree with the direction that marijuana is headed. Right now, it seems that marijuana will soon be legal for medicinal uses in most or all states, and i simply do not agree with this. Marijuana, although it undoubtfully has multiple medicinal uses, will be much more strictly monitored if it is federally legalized as a medicine. It will be a substance only available by prescription, and because of this I think that possession will be more strictly enforced. Hopefully, if(moreso WHEN) marijuana is federally legalized as a medicine, hopefully Obama will still realize the huge amount of money wasted persecuting people with possession of it, and include a "branch" in whatever statement legalizes it negating this.