Marijuana, Not Bad This Time:

What is a marijuana? If you ask this question to your senior or you teacher, you would probably get an answer like this “It is like Cannabis, or you can say it is also known as cannabis….it’s a drug and it’s bad. You must avoid it too!” and blah blah blah….As per me, it is something that George Washington grew in his backyard, it is something that made Shakespeare write dramas and it is something that 14.2 million Americans use on a regular basis. These days people know marijuana as a drug but remember it was identified for the first time in 2727 BC for being used as a medicine. At this point I would very much like to remember the famous saying that goes like this:

“God made a grass, men made the booze.”(Read More)

Yes it is true that cannabis contains the chemical compound that is toxic and is often regarded as harmful but most of us run behind this statement with a blind faith, a faith that is so much blinded just because some so called “educated brains” discussed about it over a lunch.

One of the facts about marijuana is that is a very good naturally found pain killer. Marijuana have been found to be uses as anesthetic agents before the science discovered artificial anesthesia. Recent studies have shown that people who suffer chronic neuropathic or nerve pain from damage of nervous system could be treated using the pills made from cannabis, one of the very few ways of treatment available till date. More recent studies have shown that only treatment for one of the most feared disease on the planet, cancer could be the compound called THC contained in marijuana. This is the result of the research of a Harvard study in 17^th April 2007. The chemical THC cuts the tumor cells in the lungs and reduces the spread of cancer cells to the other parts of the lungs to a great extent.

From Lincoln to Obama, from Bob Dylan to Bill Gates, from Ernest Hemmingway to Phillip K Dick, whether you say it a coincidence or give it some other name but these greatest people of their time in their fields are found to be ‘Potheads’. If marijuana was harmful to our brain then how come these people be so much successful and be at the top. I surely do not mean to say ‘get yourself a pot, and you will be at the top’ but there is some sort of positive effect of marijuana too! And yes, there definitely is!

Smoking marijuana makes your brain free from stress and you neurons relaxed, that is to say your brain gets a good deal of rest. It has been even found to enhance the creativity, as it has been seen among the people that I have listed above. Some students even claim that they remembered things more when they were boozed! Well whatever the case may be, but it has been clear that marijuana is not as addictive as caffeine or nicotine or alcohol.

One of the reasons for marijuana being made illegal, as critics say, is that marijuana grows at almost any time of the year and it makes better clothes. In 1930’s cotton growers lobbied against the hemp farmers thinking that hemp growing would just increase competition. The political and legal scenario then was thus bound to make such a declaration. It is not that harmful after all, but as we all know, even chocolates kill if taken excess!