Bodhi Sativa
Justices fear medical marijuana could be abused.
Let me make one point clear: smoking is bad for you, period! Regardless if it is tobacco, marijuana, or maple leaves, the smoke from any burning plant contains chemicals that could have damaging effects on the lungs.
However, marijuana contains one key ingredient that the powers-that-be (PTB) don't want us to harness: Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, better known as THC. This chemical is known to increase creativity, and diminish respect for authority by making one think outside the box, among other things.
An increase of independent, free thinkers would be the result of widespread THC usage! Cannabis opens mental floodgates, helping to connect the dots and draw links between apparently unrelated ideas. This is what I mean by thinking outside the box. Too much of this may lead to a revolution of thought.
And I don't think this is such a bad idea.
Therefore, for the sake of a more progressive humanity, I hereby propose a national "Joint a Day" campaign. Just imagine how much violence would be curbed if more people smoked marijuana daily; especially in the prison systems. Who wants to fight and kill when they are stoned? There should be Cannabis factories, blowing Sativa smoke in the air, blanketing our society with good cheers. Instead, humanity continues to tumble into an abyss of frustration and confusion.
Contrary to popular belief, marijuana is not a brain killer. Short-term memory is affected, but over the long-term, there are no adverse cognitive effects from smoking Cannabis Sativa.
In fact, a study shows that moderate marijuana use has no detrimental effects on intelligence. The key word here is "moderate." According to this study, heavy use can actually lower IQ. Like the adage goes, too much of anything is bad for you.
Imagine how many more innovations our society would have if more people smoked herb. What if world leaders emulated the Native American Indians, and took a few tokes of the peace pipe before convening at international summits? There would be a whole lot more harmony and brotherly love floating around, that’s for sure.
Okay, enough playing the devil's advocate here… Marijuana use is not for everyone, I admit. I'm not advocating that ten year olds pick up the habit, or that pregnant women begin a daily regimen of hitting a bong. This would no doubt have detrimental health effects. However, we must examine the criminal attitude that exists behind this mystical plant.
The point I am making is this: marijuana is not a neurotoxin, unlike some legal drugs on the market.
So why don't the feds legalize it? There are several answers to this question: One, marijuana produces an altered state of consciousness, which poses a threat to the national group-think mentality. Two, they cannot control the production of this gift from the Creator, and therefore cannot tax it. Three, they are just plain evil.
The PTB are not trying to protect us, they are only trying to protect their own interests. They want us to continue to be slaves to their plan, without thinking about becoming the architects of our own. As long as we are pawns in their game, we are expendable to them. Fuck that! It is time to buck the status quo and play by new rules.
Like Bob Marley said…
Let us now take a peek into our social history of marijuana. Before the Civil War, marijuana cultivation was a major source of revenue for America. Between 1850 and 1937, marijuana could be easily purchased in pharmacies and general stores as a medicinal drug.
Fast forward to 2004…What happened? Why have we regressed? Why have the references to Cannabis in the bible been ignored by the masses. Since we are such a God-fearing, Christian society, why are our minds so empathetically closed?
The war on drugs is racist to the core, starting with the resentment against Mexican immigrants in the early 1900s-- who popularized recreational use of marijuana-- and continuing with coercive penalties and jail sentences for poor people of color who primarily used the drug; It wasn't until more white people (the Hippies) started getting stoned in the 1960's that the feds relaxed the stringent penalties a bit, only to tighten the reigns a couple decades later under the guise of the "War on Drugs", thanks to President Ronald Reagan.
It’s time for the federal government to lighten up on the antiquated drug policies— then light up a fatty and chill out! We will all be better off.
…
P.S. For a copy of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws’ (NORML) 22-page report entitled “Your Government Is Lying To You (Again) About Marijuana”, please click here. This is a .pdf, so you must have Adobe Reader to view it.
Let me make one point clear: smoking is bad for you, period! Regardless if it is tobacco, marijuana, or maple leaves, the smoke from any burning plant contains chemicals that could have damaging effects on the lungs.
However, marijuana contains one key ingredient that the powers-that-be (PTB) don't want us to harness: Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, better known as THC. This chemical is known to increase creativity, and diminish respect for authority by making one think outside the box, among other things.
An increase of independent, free thinkers would be the result of widespread THC usage! Cannabis opens mental floodgates, helping to connect the dots and draw links between apparently unrelated ideas. This is what I mean by thinking outside the box. Too much of this may lead to a revolution of thought.
And I don't think this is such a bad idea.
Therefore, for the sake of a more progressive humanity, I hereby propose a national "Joint a Day" campaign. Just imagine how much violence would be curbed if more people smoked marijuana daily; especially in the prison systems. Who wants to fight and kill when they are stoned? There should be Cannabis factories, blowing Sativa smoke in the air, blanketing our society with good cheers. Instead, humanity continues to tumble into an abyss of frustration and confusion.
Contrary to popular belief, marijuana is not a brain killer. Short-term memory is affected, but over the long-term, there are no adverse cognitive effects from smoking Cannabis Sativa.
In fact, a study shows that moderate marijuana use has no detrimental effects on intelligence. The key word here is "moderate." According to this study, heavy use can actually lower IQ. Like the adage goes, too much of anything is bad for you.
Imagine how many more innovations our society would have if more people smoked herb. What if world leaders emulated the Native American Indians, and took a few tokes of the peace pipe before convening at international summits? There would be a whole lot more harmony and brotherly love floating around, that’s for sure.
Okay, enough playing the devil's advocate here… Marijuana use is not for everyone, I admit. I'm not advocating that ten year olds pick up the habit, or that pregnant women begin a daily regimen of hitting a bong. This would no doubt have detrimental health effects. However, we must examine the criminal attitude that exists behind this mystical plant.
The point I am making is this: marijuana is not a neurotoxin, unlike some legal drugs on the market.
So why don't the feds legalize it? There are several answers to this question: One, marijuana produces an altered state of consciousness, which poses a threat to the national group-think mentality. Two, they cannot control the production of this gift from the Creator, and therefore cannot tax it. Three, they are just plain evil.
The PTB are not trying to protect us, they are only trying to protect their own interests. They want us to continue to be slaves to their plan, without thinking about becoming the architects of our own. As long as we are pawns in their game, we are expendable to them. Fuck that! It is time to buck the status quo and play by new rules.
Like Bob Marley said…
Don't let them fool you
Or even try to school you, Oh! No
We've got a mind of our own
So go to hell if what you're thinkin' isn't right
Love would never leave us alone
In the darkness there must come out to light
Let us now take a peek into our social history of marijuana. Before the Civil War, marijuana cultivation was a major source of revenue for America. Between 1850 and 1937, marijuana could be easily purchased in pharmacies and general stores as a medicinal drug.
Fast forward to 2004…What happened? Why have we regressed? Why have the references to Cannabis in the bible been ignored by the masses. Since we are such a God-fearing, Christian society, why are our minds so empathetically closed?
The war on drugs is racist to the core, starting with the resentment against Mexican immigrants in the early 1900s-- who popularized recreational use of marijuana-- and continuing with coercive penalties and jail sentences for poor people of color who primarily used the drug; It wasn't until more white people (the Hippies) started getting stoned in the 1960's that the feds relaxed the stringent penalties a bit, only to tighten the reigns a couple decades later under the guise of the "War on Drugs", thanks to President Ronald Reagan.
It’s time for the federal government to lighten up on the antiquated drug policies— then light up a fatty and chill out! We will all be better off.
…
P.S. For a copy of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws’ (NORML) 22-page report entitled “Your Government Is Lying To You (Again) About Marijuana”, please click here. This is a .pdf, so you must have Adobe Reader to view it.
posted by Akili | 8:20 AM
4 Comments:
Decriminalizing would deprive urban gangs of a significant revenue source, because weed has huge profit margins. The profit margin is due to the risk premium, risk of going to jail that is. Decriminalization would remove this threat of jail and it's corresponding premium built into the price of weed. This would remove the incentive for ambitious, yet poor young men to join gangs, whose guns are purchased with drug money. Furhermore, rather than passing along the savings of cheaper weed to the average college student, tax the hell out of it like cigarettes. Regulate it like alcohol; I like the coffee shop business model.
Decriminalization reduces use among youth who are experimenting. Let's assume the hypothetical little deviant is 16 and wants to imbibe in something forbidden, yet only on the fringe of socially unacceptable - cigarettes, pot, and alcohol are his choices. The only people who are selling tobacco and alcohol are law-abiding merchants, they don't wish to participate in the youth's law-breaking. The only people selling weed are law-breaking by trade, so what's the difference between selling to our 15 year old versus the 30 year old - both are illegal. It's cheaper and easier for kids to get the illegal substance of the three.
Furthermore, proper studies could lead to actual evidence of negative effects of pot from scientific studies. Right now all that dissuading adults can point to are speculations and trumped up stories - marijuana is not legal to study. Teenagers have fantastic bullshit detectors, and until it is legal to study the effects, no convincing evidence can be used to dissuade kids. Compare the cigarette ads to the gov'ts pot ads.... better yet ask a teenager what he thinks about the truthfulness of each.
Finally let me appeal to a legal argument - the U.S. Constitution had to be amended to outlaw alcohol. Marijuana prohibition was enacted with an Act of Congress. Nothing relevant changed in the constitution since then, only 'modern' interpretations. This seems inconsistent.
Okay the last one, hemp is outlawed as an idiotic byproduct (or perhaps at the time of outlaw the real covert reaason via timber lobbies) of the marijuana drug law. Hemp is a very hardy plant that can be grown in diverse regions unsuitable for other plants. It has many end uses - the fibers are about as long as any other natural fibers - they can grow 15 feet tall! no wonder it was used for ropes for millenia.
to recap you should reconsider decriminalization/taxation/regulation for the following reasons:
1) reduce gang violence
2) reduce prison costs (direct and indirect)
3) increase government revenue
4) decrease usage amongst teenagers
5) increase scientific understading of marijuana's effects
6) to be more consistent in interpretation of the powers of Federal government
7) provide another valuable industrial cash crop for American farmers
Jim
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