Medical marijuana

individualized
Sat, 09 Oct 2010 22:14:18 +0000

It really should be fully legalized.

There are no permanent negative side effects. At one point, it was thought that it killed brain cells, but a researcher from Harvard found that the experiment was flawed. (It was tested on rats, but the amount of oxygen sent to their brain was so much that they died of suffocation, and your brain cells begin to die when you’re dead.) I think the best argument for it is that no one has ever, ever died as a result of marijuana.

I used to think that the whole medical marijuana thing was just a hoax to get it legalized, but I had to take vicodin after an accident and it made me absolutely sick to my stomach. I also couldn’t eat anything and got extremely weak and skinny. I ended up smoking, and it literally “cured” me. It gets rid of (at least for me) all feelings of sickness, allows you to focus on other things besides the pain, and helped me eat to regain my strength.

There are two negative things I’ve experienced about it. One is you gain weight from munchies, nothing you can really do there! The other is that, while you are high, it does make you (me) lazy. But this can be true with anything. You don’t take shots of alchohol and then write a paper later. As long as I smoke after I have all of my stuff done for the day, it’s perfectly fine. Since i’ve started smoking my grades have gone up from a 3.4 GPA to a 4.0. It reduces so much stress, and I cannot believe it’s still illegal.

The only reason this drug is illegal is because hemp (yes, it’s good for more than just smoking) is cheaper to make than paper and when this was first discovered the corrupt paper companies began to go into a panic because they were losing so much money.