The Killer Drug!... Marijuana?

Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit... unnatural? - Bill Hicks

Hello World.

I've been discussing this topic with a vast variety of people for quite a while, and to me it seems nothing but appropriate to share my opinion and my knowledge on this subject, in this blog. As you might have already guessed i'd like to discuss Marijuana. 

Yes you heard me right! The Devil's Plant itself! 

The reason i'm posting about Marijuana is because i find it completely stupid of how many people blindly label marijuana as a "Dangerous Drug" and place it in the "Big NO NO" section right there with Cocaine, Speed, MDMA, and Heroin... and then turn around and smoke a cigarette or drink alcohol... Alright well.. 

I base this post of all the information I've gathered and believe so please have a read and enjoy :) 

Okay first of all lets get rid of the most basic assumptions of why Marijuana is Illegal... 

Lets have a think about it... 

It has been recorded that 21,600 individuals die from alcohol (legal) abuse per year... not to mention all the people who die through car crashes and all the alcoholics which turn extremely violent etc etc... 

Ignorant Person: "Alright.. well that doesn't seem too bad right?..."

Now lets jump to Cigarettes! (legal) It has been recorded that 5.4 million people die per year because of tobacco... 

*Fun Fact: Every 6.5 seconds a current or a former smoker dies according to the World Health Organization* 

Ignorant Person: "That is quite impressive if you ask me... such a small thing yet so extremely lethal..." 

Well lets move on to the Substance of the hour... Marijuana! (illegal) sadly i must disappoint you all... i have only found 26 deaths with marijuana as an underlying drug which were in the USA between 1999 and 2007... so 26 deaths over 8 years... In a population of 2,615,523,905 people. 

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Ignorant Person: "Alright well maybe Marijuana might not be so lethal after all... but it does cause Brain damage and schizophrenia, and paranoia, and anxiety and so on... !!! that's why it must stay illegal!!!"

Well okay lets have a little showdown.

Health Damage through Cigarettes (Legal): Lung Cancer, Emphysema, Bronchial Diseases, Heart Problems and much much more.

Health Damage through Alcohol (Legal): Through alcohol abuse it can increase risk of Arthritis, cancer in the liver, pancreas, rectum, breast, mouth, pharynx, larynx, and esophagus, Causes physical and behavioral abnormalities, high risk of heart disease, risk of kidney failure, can cause depression, anxiety, & insomnia & much more... 

Health Damage through Marijuana (Illegal): Through marijuana abuse it can increase risk of bronchitis, schizophrenia (in vulnerable individuals), anxiety, paranoia, and depression.

Health Benefits of Cigarettes (Legal): ... 

Health Benefits of Alcohol (Legal): Through moderate use it can reduce risk of Heart diseases, Lower risk of Gallstones, Possibly reduce risk of diabetes.

Health Benefits of Marijuana (Illegal): Through moderate use Treatment to Nausea, Reduction of pressure in the eyes, Relief of pain, Protection of Nerves through damage cause by sclerosis, Prevents formation of harmful plaque in the brain. 

Ignorant Person: "Well okay okay but the risk still remains! abusing marijuana can still cause very harmful side-effects! ..."

Yes. Abusing Marijuana does cause harmful side-effects... Just like abusing junk food can cause obesity, or abusing alcohol can cause kidney failure, or abusing a fork or a knife can cause it to end up in your eye or in any other uncomfortable place... 

Fact is, people can and will abuse anything, at the end it is their choice whether or not they choose to. It does not mean we should ban anything and everything which can be abused to cause harmful results. 

Ignorant Person: "Alright Alright i get it, but Marijuana is still addictive! and because it is addictive we should have it banned and let it remain illegal!"

The Strange thing about marijuana is that it has no "Addictive" substance inside of it, while Cigarettes have Nicotine that causes the physical addiction, Marijuana like Alcohol does not have a physically addictive 

substance inside, just like in alcohol it is the happy and relaxed feeling people get addicted to. The reason Marijuana got labeled as addictive and as a "gateway drug" was because when Harry J. Aslinger tried to ban Marijuana he added in his testimony that it could lead to Opium use. (Opium is a  latex obtained from the opium poppy which contains 12% morphine which is used to produce heroin)

*Fun Fact: 10% of Cigarette smokers are not addicted to nicotine, where 98% of Marijuana smokers are not addicted to Marijuana"

 Ignorant Person: "Well if Marijuana is safer than Alcohol, and safer than cigarettes... why is it illegal, and the other stuff is legal?!" 

Because unlike the other products, Cannabis is the Billion Dollar Herb. 

The uses for it are countless.

Natural Pain killer

Natural Oil for cars, ( through growing marijuana the plants would make up for all the carbon exhaustion cars cause & turn it back into oxygen )

Hemp is also an alternative Fiber for making stronger and longer lasting Paper and Clothes (which in turn would save countless of trees from deforestation), 

and so on...

Dave Seber said: "we've got 10 to 20 years, tops, before the entire ecosystem, as we know it, will collapse because of what they are doing in these forests."..."environmental threat to forests will worsen if no alternate fiber to wood is found"... 

While i could go on and on, and in more detail of why Marijuana is illegal and why the reasons for it being illegal are completely idiotic i should probably cut this post short :( , but i will leave you with this:



Ignorant Person: ALRIGHT you got me. but i tell you this! If you use Marijuana your life will spiral downwards!, and you will become a worthless good-for-nothing pot-smoker! and you will never accomplish anything in life!

 So here i will leave you with a few worthless good-for-nothing
stoners that never accomplished anything in life because they smoked Marijuana :) Thanks for Reading!

Bob Marley - Musician

Thomas Jefferson - Inventor & Founding Father

Carl Sagan - Astrophysicist / Astronomer / Cosmologist / Author

Steve Jobs - Entrepreneur & Inventor 

Morgan Freeman - Actor / Film Director / Narrator 

Michael Phelps - American Swimmer - Most Decorated Olympian of all time (22 medals)

Francis Crick - Nobel Prize Winner for discovering the structure of the DNA molecule

Seth MacFarlane - Writer / Producer / Film Director / Creator of Family Guy & More
Singer / Voice Actor / Animator / Comedian

Arnold Schwarzenegger - Former Bodybuilder / Actor / Businessman / Investor / Politician

 “Marijuana will be legal someday because every law student I know smokes it." - Lenny Bruce

Thanks for reading.