The marijuana controversy.

To say that was caused by some smoking marijuana is crazy....

This is the most historically ignorant statement I have ever heard. The founding fathers were all for the cultivation and usage of marijuana. That little piece of paper that started this country called the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp , yes the one in the window of the National Archives in D.C. is on hemp paper. In his inaugural speech George Washington stated ”make the most of the hemp seed, sow it everywhere,” & Marijuana control laws were not instituted until around 1860, but before they could be passed there was a little thing called ”The Civil War.” It was not until the 1937 Marijuana Tax Stamp Act that cannabis was illegal on the Federal Level, a few states had regulatory laws before but they were all misdemeanors. During prohibition it was legal to smoke pot but getting a drink was a no no.
And to the nurse who is having problems with her family: it sounds like your husbands side of the family is genetically predisposed to bipolar and anxiety disorders that are now manifesting in your daughter. Sorry that your husband was able to control these issues up until recently with cannabis and now has to use numerous synthetic chemicals to control what one natural plant was able to do. I am truly sorry that you have to go through these issues but as a nurse you should be more observant and less biased toward you're stance on the problem. It is far easier to blame the pot than come to the realization that your family members need help for pre existing mental conditions
As far as the cancer is concerned most people smoke pot in paper or tobacco wraps, these have many cancer causing agents in them, evidence is to the contrary when marijuana smoke is inhaled through a water filter (bong).
Marijuana will be illegal in this county add long as the war on drugs is profitable. Holland has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and studies have shown that marijuana usage in that country had declined since it was decriminalized. Also Amsterdam has one of the lowest rates of cancer among its citizens, how do you explain that? Well because most marijuana smokers in that country use bongs, vaporizers and ingest THC in baked goods. Also I can't stand when people try to confuse other peoples opinions of their own self righteous beliefs by acting intellectual, its actually kind of sad.
PhD in Sociology from City University of New York

Are your friends on prescription meds as well as your husband?
Because I'm feeling more that they're to blame for your husbands 'rages'.

You said yourself that they started once he stopped smoking weed and got onto them, which majority have more lethal chemicals in them than cocaine.
You should read up on the things that your husband is taking, I know I'd rather ave something that comes naturally from the earth with the help from the sun than take a load of man made 'prescription' drugs!

this is such a lame example. I hate the its a gateway drug saying. How many people smoked weed because they were cigarette smokers first and smoking weed was similar? How many people drank alcohol and then started smoking? Saying that he smoked crack because he smoked weed is a horrible argument. There are a ton of other things that fall into what drugs you are willing to do like parents, social economic class, and abundance of drugs in your community.

You are incorrect, Marijuana can absolutely cause these effects in susceptible people. And they can be permanent. Potheads seem to be on this "medical marijuana" kick and while there may be certain symptoms that are placated by a marijuana high, marijuana itself is not in the least bit good for your health. In fact it is quite bad.

Marijana-induced psychosis is a recognized condition that has landed people in the psych ward for weeks on end at times.

Particulate matter from marijuana smoke is like any other burning organic matter - it can damage your lungs, restrict airways, and cause lung scarring. Cancer incidence is inconclusive, but that does not mean nonexistent.

I believe i am a person that has a good grasp on marijuana, i understand how there are two sides the the argument how some people are so against it, they couldn't believe anyone they know would smoke it or those people who love it so much that its been incorperated into their everyday life, some would even go as far as loving it. I for one have been all over that spectrum and only having lived 18 years of my life, i can say i know more about this than alot of other people might, or maybe even just as much in some cases.

Ive experienced the postives, its been my best friend at times and its been my worst enemy at others.

I remember starting it back in the day, i had so much fun hanging out with my friends , we would drive ally way to ally way talking and laughing and smoking and when we got to hang out at someones house and smoke up and hang out that was a bonus. It became a very big part of my life and my personality. And to be honest it was awesome in this time i felt i really found who i was and i felt great, comfortable with me as a person, i made many friends and it made me not a "tough guy" but a really relaxed balanced person. I've smoked weed for about 4 or 5 years now and after smoking for this long i've deffinatly noticed many negative affects, and the only reason i notice these effects is because i abused it. Everything in moderation is okay, but it is when you start to abuse a substance ex nicotine , marijuana heck even drnking to much water...  that you will experience negative affects.

Now i've noticed a big change since i've graduated, and my interest in marijuana since i've left my school and entered the real world to work for the first time. I've noticed that the person i felt so connected with and comfortable being was no longer what could happen, i couldn't be that person in "the real world" , no matter how much i enjoyed that person, no matter how happy i was the fact that i was broke living with my parents getting baked and playing video games on my spare time wasn't acceptable. So i made a change and i for one have tried quitting weed when i wasn't ready ,,, let me tell you that it was so hard i actually couldn't do it. The time comes when it gets old to youu, no matter how much fun you think it is one point of your life, everyone will grow up. and i believe i've grown up out of that stage, and its a stage i'm actually kinda glad to get out of. i'm ready to move on and try and live healthy becase i am getting older. and as i've said ive experienced the negative side effects such as memory loss wich is really really frustrating, and i've experienced panic attacks.

 

So just from someone who has been all of the spectrum from the left side to the right side, my perspective on marijuana is ...

 

I believe marijuana should be completely legalized. Why you may ask ? Because this is something that will stimulate our economy, it will end the war on drugs or atleast a big part of it, and wasting of tax payers dollars. It would get rid of crime and bring new light to our world that needs change. At the moment thats all i can really think of but they are pretty decent points , i think its safer than alcohol, without any doubt in my mind it is safer than alcohol and i believe that to be one of the main arguments anyone would have to make for it to become legalized.

 

I do believe it should be used in moderation, don't embrase the pot culture, don't get to deep into it. Having it illegal makes the pot culture seem so cool and fun because it is illegal, and just even being involved with the culture gives you faulse pride in something that makes you lazy. If you are going to be a successful pot smoker, you need to use it in moderation, you need to keep it seperate from your main lifestyle. It can change your perspective on things and let it do that, thats why you smoke it to change your view but don't get high and go to work... i've done this so many times and let me tell you,,,, kinda scary hahaha

 

Pot is a good thing. And im' glad i had my time with it, but I have moved on from it, and i know its time i be responsible with my life and make something of myself now, i am in the early ages of my life , and i'm glad i took my teenage years to smoke so much pot because it made me into who i am and i'm really happy with who i am right now. Sure maybe i wish i was a dr or a layer at the age of 20 but i've made the best of friends and had the best of times and tried the best of drugs, i lived my life and i lived it the way i wanted to so far. So now i'm happy to move on, to grow up and to get married and have beautiful children. And i like to think the reason i've matured this way is because of marijuana and the way it shaped or helped shape my perspective of this wonderful world we live in.

 

That is my view on marijuana, from someone who has fully experienced it, fully lived it and has also been fully against it at one point in my life. I hated it , i tried it, i loved it... i really kinda fell in love with it, than it got boring , and now i'll smoke maybe once a month with my buddies when i see them, but ive moved on. And yu can too coming from someone who loved it for 4 years.

 

 

 

Quit the pot when you are ready. But don't loose the stoner way about you. Thats what makes you you.

People are not smoking the same stuff. Potency makes all the difference.

If all the world was smoking the same dank skunk weed that would be no controversy at all.

The last part was totally unnecessary, prick.

Ummm, what was the gateway drug that led to trying Marijuana? This gateway drug theory is total c**p.
There is only 1 gateway drug that almost everyone starts with and that drug is alcohol.

William Randolph Hearst used his newspaper to lobby against marijuana. He was also heavily invested in wood pulp paper processing. All this happened about the same time as marijuana was outlawed, 1937 if memory serves.

There were probably ulterior motives to the demonization of the drug in the media. To outlaw the plant completely did eliminate hemp as a competitor to wood paper and cotton, both of which are more expensive and/or noxious to process.

@ Dr tetra oh and sociology? I can't believe they even offer doctorates in humanities, what a waste of time. He wasn't wrong, he just cited bad examples.

 

THC is the main active ingredient of the plant. It´s a substance that makes the mind unrest and stay stored in the body. More you smoke, more mental problems you will have. They will stop after the drug leave your system but it takes a long time for heavy smokers of HIGH GRADE, not the c**p people here may be smoking.

Pre-existent mental condition?? BS. Heavy smokers withdrawaling of high grade strains can be nuts for many weeks while the drug leave the body.

Bipolar disorder?? Psychiatry is a fraud, a lie for money. How can a doctor say that someone have bipolar disorder or other produced "disease" after only 30 min or 1 h talking, without exams, X ray or tomography. Nothing. This is ridiculous.

This society is ridiculous.

 

I first tried marijuana when I was 21 years old. Now, 45 years later, I still smoke pot.

I am 66 years old and have not taken a prescription medication in over 30 years. Has regular cannabis use enabled this? I have no idea.

I am active...hiking, canoeing, camping, bicycling. My last hike was 11.5 miles...to the Confluence Overlook in Canyonlands Natl Park. Has cannabis enabled this? I don't know.

I do know that I am living proof that prohibitionist propaganda is a fallacy...a blatant lie.

The worst experience I ever had with cannabis was spending 5 years in Federal Prison for a marijuana offense.

I wrote about the escapades that led to my imprisonment. The book:

‘Shoulda Robbed a Bank’

I had been a marijuana smoker since I ws in my 12th standard.i have no cancer history in my family.but I have CANCER now in throat and lungs.its 5 yrs from now I stated smoking.3 joints a day.i didnot take cigarette or alchohol,so what I blame now is MARIJUANA.i will die soon leaving my beautiful girlfriend and my otherwise very beautiful life.i Dont want to die.i might not have to if I did not choose MARIJUANA.stop before its too late. the temorary good feeling it gives makes people try to search reasons and exuses that its good.BUT its NOT. marijuana smoke has more carcinogens(substances that causes cancer) and tar than tobacco. its doesnot make tobaco good either. stop it.before you know the devil it is.