The Good Smoke - Anti-marijuana Ignorance Should End

First of all I'd like to point out how ridiculous and blatantly wrong it is for any government to forbid it's population from growing and consuming any plant they chose to. These are plants, we evolved with them and for anyone to tell you that you have no right to consume a certain plant is trying to play god. Obviously certain plants shouldn't be ingested, a lot of them will make you sick or just kill you.

However anything with as many positive effects and uses as marijuana or hemp should never, ever be criminalized. It is one of the strongest and most versatile plant materials on earth and has been used since at least the beginning of civilization - [link to en.wikipedia.org]

If you take this into consideration with the fact that it is a proven medicinal source for treating various illnesses, including brain cancer, breast cancer and lung cancer - [link to en.wikipedia.org] It should be obvious to any rational thinking human that this is a positive natural product. Therefore we should all be able to grow and use it, at our own discretion.

The hypocrisy that something as toxic (inTOXICated) as alcohol - [link to en.wikipedia.org] is legal in most western countries, not to mention CIGARETTES and that marijuana isn't just makes absolutely no sense. The only logical reason I can put on it, apart from the scare campaign started early last century by the timber industry, is the TBTB really are using those 2 legal drugs (alcohol and tobacco) as population control and at the same time baning a natural medicine like marijuana for the same reasons. So it's either that the governments are doing this as a form of population control or they are just plain ignorant of the facts.

For those still not convinced, there is always the whole gateway drug notion right? Wrong, first of all it is not a drug, it is a herb, secondly if you believe that, then would you not believe that alcohol would have the same ‘gateway’ effect? After all you can only get so drunk before you become sick, so if the logic is that a ‘pot-head’ would always be chasing a more extreme high, then wouldn’t an alcoholic also have the same longing? The facts are most alcoholics dont go on to become crack heads or heroin users, as most recreational or medicinal marijuana users don’t.

There are many, many more points I could make, like the fact we have receptors in our brains, that seem to have evolved only to react to chemicals found in marijuana...but I’ll let you do some of your own research, please if you are strongly anti-marijuana, try to justify yourself, or better yet educate yourself.

Time to pass the peace pipe around :)



Last Edited by DISENT on 03/23/2011 06:51 AM