FOR MARIJUANA.

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“Marijuana is an extremely harmful drug!” “There are no reasons it should be allowed”. Indeed, true words of naivety. This plant, this bud, is nothing but a crowd pleaser! It exudes natural chemicals that trigger a part of the brain that nothing else stimulates, allowing individuals to feel a type of happiness that’s irretrievable in any other way. Honestly, this sounds like God has put the au naturel marijuana plant on this planet with a purpose. Grapes, like hemp, possess the ability to be multi-utilized. One product being the all time favorite infamous “crutch” of our ancestors, alcohol. Why are there no laws against grapes, but laws against a plant with the most by products? I can’t find sense behind all of this hemp and marijuana laws, mostly marijuana.

Imagine if you kept chicks as pets. You had about 5 of them that played in a little pen amongst each other. They were all troublemakers, playful and careless. One day, you picked the least defiant one who’s never hurt any of the rest before, placed her in a separate pen and dedicated most of your time to keeping her out of the other pen. Make any sense? No. Well let me introduce you to an example of different context but similar ways. Tobacco kills 400,000, Alcohol kills 100,00, all legal drugs kill 20,000, all illegal drugs kill 15,000 and Aspirin takes away 500 lives. These are the annual statistics of all reported drug related deaths in America. Marijuana on the other hand has killed 0 persons, yet it remains illegal while alcohol roams the streets freely whilst being the number 1 killer. 4/5 of the billions of dollars America uses to rid their streets of Drugs go to the imprisoning, investigation and all legal operations against Marijuana. This means that 1/5 of the money left tends to Crack cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine and all other illegal drugs. Make any sense?

My sister used to work in the outskirts of Victoria, Australia. She was a dentist working under a government owned clinic for those who were on welfare. She used to tell me that many if not most of her patients were all anti-depressant users. To me, that is one for the many reasons I think that there is something seriously wrong with the world today. We have much more than we used to, more availability of products, more places to get help and pleasure. And yet, the high and growing number of individuals on anti-depressants is evident. Happiness seems so farfetched for so many these days, everybody’s stressed and need some kind of relaxant. Everybody should have the option of inviting a couple of mates over, get together in a circle, light that joint and “puff puff pass”. Marijuana is natural, not fatal and takes away nausea, pain and makes you relaxed and euphoric. Also, remember all those fights that happens outside clubs and bars in the late of the night? Imagine if they were all high on marijuana not alcohol, everybody would be chilled out with minds that weren’t interested in violence. In fact, Canada has a day specially dedicated to marijuana. This day is Cannabis day, which takes place on the 1^st of July every year, and again, no fights have been reported except for one, which involved somebody under the influence of alcohol.

In my opinion anything that is taken in excess or abused can be harmful. Be it water, salt, cocaine, alcohol and even forks. Like the famous “Ultimate Fighting Champion” commentator and host for “Survivor” Joe Rogan said “ I could pick up a fork and stab somebody, does that mean we have to ban forks?” Marijuana is like alcohol, except it doesn’t turn you into a violent mess and doesn’t kill you. We even have laws on the production of hemp, why don’t we have laws against grapes since they produce alcohol? Make any sense? No!

That’s my stand, marijuana laws and policies should be reconstructed. There is not a good enough reason as to why it should remain illegal. Governments spend way too much money and time on the pursuit of marijuana “crimes” when it could be channeled to stopping crimes revolving around the harder and more dangerous drugs.  Medical Marijuana should be legalized globally and people should start seeing Marijuana for what it really is. A giver of joy, relaxation and social benefits. Don’t worry; this would be quite different from a drinking session. The single worst thing that could happen would be having to puke and going into a deep deep beauty sleep.