This information, when tacked onto all the other marijuana benefits, help to push towards this country not being so misinformed about marijuana. A a woman's empowerment page there are some other things about marijuana you should know. Smoking marijuana, much like smoking any substance, has been shown to increase the chances of developing cancer. However marijuana has been shown to fight brain cancer by causing autophagy in the cancerous tumor cells. It has also been shown to help combat Alzheimer's disease as well as helping to prevent the spread of Breast Cancer. These findings, on top of many others, help to show that marijuana being illegal is pointless and insipid. Smoking it may be detrimental to your health but as I said all smoking is; smoke doesn't belong in our lungs period. Thankfully though there are many other ways of experiencing the wonderful benefits of marijuana. It's not water soluable but if mixed with a fat (like butter) you can make THC butter. Which you can then use to bake or cook healthy, mildly-psychoactive, foods.
A lot of the information out there about marijuana is incredibly misleading and at times just wrong. You can't overdose on marijuana, it's physically impossible to do so. In order to die from using marijuana you'd have to smoke a half-ton of it in ten minutes; as I said physically impossible. In fact no single death, ever, has been directly linked to marijuana usage. That's not to say no one has ever died from it's use, it's just never been solely marijuana's fault. Aspirin is more deadly than marijuana. As is caffeine, sugar, fats, meat, alcohol, cigarettes, Prozac,Paxil, Wellbutrin, Tylenol, lithium, Dramamine, DXM (cough medicine), and scores of others that are legal and can kill you. In fact it's illegality is only a result of years of misinformation and lobbying from cotton farmers, paper manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. The marijuana, and hemp, plants are verstile and have thousands of uses. Hemp can be used to make so many products and it's far better for the environment and it's easier to grow.
All of the positive benefits of marijuana are greatly ignored and false-truths are the only reason it's not legal. It is not a gateway drug, it's addictive properties are scant and it does not turn you a raving lunatic (1933's Reefer Madness was just false propaganda. The only reason that marijuana is illegal is because people don't know the actual facts about this "drug"; which has been used for thousands of years. Recently they found marijuana and a pipe that were 1500 years old. And that marijuana was more potent than what we have today.
Another interesting fact is that of all the drugs people take, marijuana is the only one that has it's own receptor in the brain. All the other drugs, like opiates and barbiturates, mimic our receptors to achieve there effects. Marijuana doesn't, our bodies have designed a system to make it's usage even easier and safer. It has also been proven, by a many-years study Britain, that marijuana's effects on memory are greatly exaggerated. After 20 years they found that the only people that suffered memory issues, and they were minor at best, were the ones that were daily smokers for the duration of the study. The people that smoked socially or intermittently showed almost no signs of memory degradation.
As a near-daily smoker myself I can attest to it's lack of negative effects. I have smoked since I was 16 (which I DO NOT abdicate it's usage at that age, our brains and bodies are still developing and at that point marijuana can have a negative effect) and suffer no ills from it. My memory has showed no signs of slowing and in truth I still have a photographic memory.
I hope that I have helped clear up the truth about marijuana, and that maybe now you can see why it should be legal. Remember even it is legalized, it's not like you have to smoke it. And for those that are worried about people driving under the influence, that is and should always be illegal. Considering that tens' of thousands of people die from drunk drivers every year (and 0 from marijuana) the DWI and DUI laws need to be stronger and more enforced. Instead our police force has to waste their time punishing non-criminals for marijuana usage.
For those that are worried about it's legalization causing anarchy in the streets; look at Portugal. They have every drug legalized and there country is strong as ever. Same applies to Amsterdam, which has a lower crime right than most average US Cities. A recent poll found that nearly half of the US is pro-legalization. So for those that are against it, please get the facts and make an informed decision. Marijuana has no legit reason to be illegal and it's illegal status is a joke. Legalizing drugs is the best way to combat the "Drug War", if we take the power of drugs away from criminals and kingpins then we will win this "War." And save BILLIONS of dollars in the process (we could even make a profit of the tax revenue drugs could provide).
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This information, when tacked onto all the other marijuana benefits, help to push towards this country not being so misinformed about marijuana. A a woman's empowerment page there are some other things about marijuana you should know. Smoking marijuana, much like smoking any substance, has been shown to increase the chances of developing cancer. However marijuana has been shown to fight brain cancer by causing autophagy in the cancerous tumor cells. It has also been shown to help combat Alzheimer's disease as well as helping to prevent the spread of Breast Cancer. These findings, on top of many others, help to show that marijuana being illegal is pointless and insipid. Smoking it may be detrimental to your health but as I said all smoking is; smoke doesn't belong in our lungs period. Thankfully though there are many other ways of experiencing the wonderful benefits of marijuana. It's not water soluable but if mixed with a fat (like butter) you can make THC butter. Which you can then use to bake or cook healthy, mildly-psychoactive, foods.
A lot of the information out there about marijuana is incredibly misleading and at times just wrong. You can't overdose on marijuana, it's physically impossible to do so. In order to die from using marijuana you'd have to smoke a half-ton of it in ten minutes; as I said physically impossible. In fact no single death, ever, has been directly linked to marijuana usage. That's not to say no one has ever died from it's use, it's just never been solely marijuana's fault. Aspirin is more deadly than marijuana. As is caffeine, sugar, fats, meat, alcohol, cigarettes, Prozac,Paxil, Wellbutrin, Tylenol, lithium, Dramamine, DXM (cough medicine), and scores of others that are legal and can kill you. In fact it's illegality is only a result of years of misinformation and lobbying from cotton farmers, paper manufacturers and pharmaceutical companies. The marijuana, and hemp, plants are verstile and have thousands of uses. Hemp can be used to make so many products and it's far better for the environment and it's easier to grow.
All of the positive benefits of marijuana are greatly ignored and false-truths are the only reason it's not legal. It is not a gateway drug, it's addictive properties are scant and it does not turn you a raving lunatic (1933's Reefer Madness was just false propaganda. The only reason that marijuana is illegal is because people don't know the actual facts about this "drug"; which has been used for thousands of years. Recently they found marijuana and a pipe that were 1500 years old. And that marijuana was more potent than what we have today.
Another interesting fact is that of all the drugs people take, marijuana is the only one that has it's own receptor in the brain. All the other drugs, like opiates and barbiturates, mimic our receptors to achieve there effects. Marijuana doesn't, our bodies have designed a system to make it's usage even easier and safer. It has also been proven, by a many-years study Britain, that marijuana's effects on memory are greatly exaggerated. After 20 years they found that the only people that suffered memory issues, and they were minor at best, were the ones that were daily smokers for the duration of the study. The people that smoked socially or intermittently showed almost no signs of memory degradation.
As a near-daily smoker myself I can attest to it's lack of negative effects. I have smoked since I was 16 (which I DO NOT abdicate it's usage at that age, our brains and bodies are still developing and at that point marijuana can have a negative effect) and suffer no ills from it. My memory has showed no signs of slowing and in truth I still have a photographic memory.
I hope that I have helped clear up the truth about marijuana, and that maybe now you can see why it should be legal. Remember even it is legalized, it's not like you have to smoke it. And for those that are worried about people driving under the influence, that is and should always be illegal. Considering that tens' of thousands of people die from drunk drivers every year (and 0 from marijuana) the DWI and DUI laws need to be stronger and more enforced. Instead our police force has to waste their time punishing non-criminals for marijuana usage.
For those that are worried about it's legalization causing anarchy in the streets; look at Portugal. They have every drug legalized and there country is strong as ever. Same applies to Amsterdam, which has a lower crime right than most average US Cities. A recent poll found that nearly half of the US is pro-legalization. So for those that are against it, please get the facts and make an informed decision. Marijuana has no legit reason to be illegal and it's illegal status is a joke. Legalizing drugs is the best way to combat the "Drug War", if we take the power of drugs away from criminals and kingpins then we will win this "War." And save BILLIONS of dollars in the process (we could even make a profit of the tax revenue drugs could provide).
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