SOCIOLOGY OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR
Instructor: Jeremy Don Kerr E-mail address: jkerr0@uky.edu
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REsponse Sheet #12: HEMP & MARIJUANA: Read all the articles from "Cannibas Smokers will not be arrested" to "The Last Days of Legal Cannibas." Due Wed, Dec 11.
Instructions: On a full sheet of looseleaf paper write your name in the format "Last name, First name" in the upper right hand corner. In the upper left hand corner put "Soc 436" and Response Sheet #12." Answer questions in pen or pencil using short-answer format. Staple multiple pages together, if applicable.
FROM "New Billion Dollar Crop"
1. What is the standard fiber of the world? 2. Hemp is used to produce more than ____________ textile products. 3. The cellulose in the woody "hurds" that remain after the fiber has been
removed from hemp can be used to produce more than ___________ products from dynamite to ___________. 4. Hemp can be grown in any ____________ in the Union. 5. Raw fiber from hemp can be used to produce
strong ___________ or ____________. It can be used for carpet warp or ________________________ backing. 6. The majority of linen comes from _________. 7. The products that can be made from home grown
hemp include (list nine specific items from third page): 8. Hemp will produce every grade of _____________. 9. The government's own figures estimate that 10,000 acres devoted to hemp will produce as much
paper as _____________ acres of average [tree] pulp land. From "Hemp: A Kentucky Heritage" 10. What do the first pair of Levi jeans, the U.S. constitutions and thousands of early bibles have in
common? 11. How many hemp cordage factories used to be located in Jessamine county alone according to the author? 12. What percentage of the nation's total hemp tonnage used to be harvested in Kentucky? FROM "Marijuana as Medicine" 13. How long is cannabis' medical history? 14. When the DEA's own administrative law judge ordered in 1988 that the marijuana plant be transferred
to Schedule II, what was he saying about the medical use of marijuana? 15. What is the ratio of effective to legal dose of cannabis–and how does this compare with the ration of effective to lethal dose of alcohol? 16. What medical association raised a voice in opposition to the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937? 17. What percentage of oncologists said in a 1990 survey that they had suggested that a patient smoke marijuana
for relief of the nausea induced by chemotherapy? FROM "High Anxieties" 18. The original WHO report on marijuana concluded that even if marijuana were used on the same scale as cigarettes
and alcohol, it would still do __________ harm to public health. 19. In most comparisons between alcohol and cannabis how do the two drugs compare?
20.Cannabis fared better in _____ out of _______ comparisons of long-term damage to health. FROM "A Safe High?" 21. What did research of heavy marijuana users in Costa Rica suggest about
mental decline in pot users? 22. What do studies of actual driving show about the effects of even high doses of marijuana versus alcohol? 23. Does the experience of marijuana legalization in the
Netherlands suggests that the number of marijuana smokers would increase if it were legalized? 24. More than _____ % of those who have used marijuana have long since quit. 25. Epidemiologists have so far
failed to find a link between marijuana and ___________ lung disease. 26. How or why is marijuana different from drugs such as cocaine and heroin? From "The Last Days of Legal Cannibas"
27. What corporation helped fuel to push to make hemp (marijuana) illegal? 28. What government "connections" did this corporation benefit from? 29. Who spoke out against the "Marijuana tax act of 1937?"
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