Cannabis.
With over 162 million people using cannabis annualy and about 22.5 million other users that use it on a daily basis. Cannabis has many different names, with proper names including marijuana and hemp, there are improper names including weed, draw, pot, grass, holy herb, green, gear and many many others.
Cannabis has been used since before the 3rd milenium BC, and has played a part in modern day religion. In the Jewish and Muslim culture cannabis has been used for millions of years for spiritual uses. And the use of cannabis for recreational use has been shown to go back at least 10, 000 years in places like Taiwan. Cannabis is indigenous in regions in central and south Asia. Despite the governments laws that were put in place in the 1920’s, there have been zero records of any death caused my cannabis, unlike tobacco and alcohol whom hold a frightening high death toll, yet these drugs are still legal, even though they posses no medical uses, few industrial uses and have a extremely negative effect on the body, also have physically addictive chemicals in them, whereas cannabis has a wide range of medical uses, hemp being a valuable resource in industries and have no addictive chemicals. Cannabis remains illegal, in my personal opinion the laws on cannabis in the UK is wrong and unjust. However the United States of America have legalized the medicinal use of cannabis in 14 states. Hopefully other countries will follow this example and legalize cannabis.
Cannabis has many medical uses, when consumed cannabis stimulates hunger which is an advantageous effect for people whom have recently had chemotherapy, suffer from anorexia and other eating disorders.
Cannabis also acts as a pain killer, the use of cannabis as a source for pain relief would be extremely beinifial due to the dangers of current pain killers like paraceatamol, cocodamol and codeine. Cannabis is not only more effective at easing pain but also is a healthier substitute. Cannabis causes the amelioration of nausea and vomiting, and also decreases intraocular eye pressure (shown to be effective for treating glaucoma). Cannabis Relieves the symptoms of depression and multiple sclerosis. Some studies reveal that the use of cannabis is effective in treating schizophrenia. Statistically users of cannabis are more likely to experience schizophrenia. This does not mean that cannabis causes schizophrenia as there is a possibility that schizophrenia encourages individuals to smoke cannabis for medicinal use. Officaly there are no known cures for cancer, however cannabis inhibit’s the growth of cancer cells, if the government was to start funding research of medical marijuana there is a enormous possibility that lives could be saved. If cannabis was legalized the public would benefit from the use of cannabis, also our prisons would have more space for real criminals and police would have more time to deal with real crime, rather than spending there time arresting people for having a spliff in the sun. People say that cannabis is addictive, however cannabis is just as addictive as coffee. People that get addicted to cannabis are not psyically addicted, it’s a mental addiction as they believe its addictive, and there for they refuse subcontously to stop using marijuana
THC has so much potential to benefit the lives of many. However it isn’t all good news for the holy herb. There are some negiative effects of cannabis and im am discussing them in this to let you, the reader, make your own educated view on the subject. Cannabis increases your heart rate, this may be good for people whom are experiencing a slow heart rate, but not very good if your heart is already racing, so as long as you relax while consuming cannabis you’ll be fine. Another effect is lowered blood pressure, low blood pressure is not a good thing to have, but in contrast to that, neither is having a high blood pressure, so it comes down to it that cannabis could still be useful if used correctly and if people was educated more about the use of cannabis. Impairment of short term and working memory is one of two negative effects that does not have a possitive side, the other being psychomotor coordination decreases, this basicly means that you should not drive or use any machinery while under the influence of cannabis.
My personal view on cannabis is complex, as I believe it to be a mystical herb that has so much unused or un-recognised potential. I believe smoking cannabis at a young age is wrong due to psychoactive chemicals that could distort the brains health while the brain is growing rapidly. However, this is the only bad opinion I have on cannabis. I believe cannabis should be legalized in every country, I believe that the sale of cannabis should be illegal unless done by a government owned dispensary. The cultivation of cannabis should not be illegal if it is for personal use. Well that’s my views on the subject. And I hope you enjoyed reading this article about cannabis. Keep smoking and use your vote to legalize the holy herb.