US President Joe Biden has issued a pardon order for thousands of Americans punished marijuana possession under federal law. Biden also urged governors to provide similar pardons for state marijuana convictions. Currently, marijuana is fully legal in 19 states and is lawful for medicinal purposes in 37.
Marijuana: Know about the drug
As the Mexican Revolution was on the rise in 1910, many Mexicans began to migrate to the United States. It was with them that they brought the custom of smoking marijuana.
Marijuana is a psychopharmaceutical drug (chemical substance) that alters neural system functioning, resulting in euphoria, emotion, awareness, cognition, or conduct changes.
The drug is a byproduct of the Cannabis plant. Though it is legal in certain countries and certain states of some countries, it is the most widely used illicit substance in the world, with the highest usage among adults in Zambia, the United States, Canada, and Nigeria. In 2013, approximately 128 and 232 million individuals (2.7% to 4.9% of worldwide, aged 15 to 65) consumed cannabis.
Federal laws have been classifying marijuana in the same category as significantly more hazardous substances such as heroin and LSD. It is in the same class as the relatively new and highly addictive chemicals fentanyl and methamphetamine.