IlikeAwesomeSauce wrote:what i never got was how marijuana is a medicine????
like how does that work???
i have friends who do that stuff and it's really not good for them.
marijuana slows down the body and brings it to a relaxed state. It's good for your body to relax and have these breaks that sleeping can't really give to your body.
Marijuana cannot be addictive or harmful to your body as long as you're smoking/eating/injecting marijuana. almost all of the bad druggie stories you hear about pot smokers, their dealers mix other stuff with marijuana to make it addicting so they buy more.
now, to medical benefits. i'll look more into this, but men who smoke marijuana regularly are 3x less likely to develop liver and bladder cancer/diseases. Marijuana is also less addictive than caffeine, found in coffee. Cigarettes do 4x more damage to your body than marijuana, and alcohol does 3x more damage to your body.
people who have muscle diseases where they have seizures or cannot control their muscles, marijuana relaxes and calms the nerves, making movement more controlled and easy. For those who have a hard time controlling their muscles, marijuana gives them control of their body. Those who have seizures, marijuana dramatically decrases the count of seizures you have.
there was this 3 year old girl in colerado who had seizures multiple times a day. Ever since she has been getting doses of medical marijuana to combat her disease, she now gets seizures once or twice a month.
Marijuana has also been found to combat cancer. Certain chemicals in marijuana have been found incredibly harmful to cancer cells,which allows doctors to locate the cancer better and makes the poison they inject into you to kill cancer cells more effective. Marijuana has also been known to dramatically stall the growth of cancer. I have a friend named Rose who was my babysitter. She was diagnosed with stage 3 lung cancer in 2007 when she was 45. at the time medical marijuana was illegal but her doctor gave it to her anyways. she eats pot-brownies. she now has stage 2 lung cancer and because of the pot brownies, she can go outside without fearing bacterial infection for the cancer has been weakened so much it causes little harm to her body. There are some stories you can find where marijuana has been responsible for people being cured from cancer.
Marijuana is currently being studied to combat HIV and has been found extremely effective, though the uses are still being expanded. Marijuana is mainly focused on helping those with nervous, muscle, feeling, and cancer diseases and has almost always been effective and harm-free in fighting these diseases.
The fact that marijuana can do all these things, and caffeine, alcohol, and cigarettes cannot while marijuana is illegal and caffeine, alcohol, and cigarettes isn't, is one of the most idiotic policies out there.
If you're against marijuana because of the war on drugs and the druggies and such, you should be fighting to criminalize caffeine, alcohol and cigarettes because those have taken much more lives than marijuana could ever come close to. in fact, as far as I'm concerned, no one has died from smoking pure marijuana. the worst it can do to you is give you lung cancer 20-50 years down the road and that's only if you smoke it. excessively.
Besides, the War on Drugs was never meant to end, nor to win. It's just an excuse for the Government having the right to control your life and tell you what you can and cannot do.
I mean, what right does the government have to tell you what you can and cannot put or do in your body? It's your body. You should be able to do whatever you want to it. If you wanna do drugs, do drugs.
But, by all means, Bloofy. Continue to say we don't need marijuana. That little 3 year old girl from Colarado certainly doesn't need marijuana right? I mean, screw her and wanting to leave a normal life and, you know,
live.And screw my babbysitter too, right? A grandmother of 6, mother of 3, owns a local cafe up my street. She didn't need the pot brownies that essentially saved her life and let her, you know,
live. 