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marijuana......ancient medicine to attain salvation

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Category:	Other
Created:	Aug 4, 2006
Type:	Public
Members:	20
Owner:	grasshopper flyinghigh
Language:	English
Country:	India

Cannabis is a plant. It is also called Cannabis Sativa, Cannabis Indica, or Marijuana. Cannabis contains a drug known as THC-(delta-9-tetra-hydro-canibinol) which gives the user a feeling of euphoria (makes the user feel good). Cannabis can be smoked, eaten, or ingested in a number of other ways.

Because people can use it as a drug, it is illegal (against the law) in most places, but is sometimes legal to use for medical purposes with a prescription from a doctor. It is legal in the Netherlands, and some other countries are starting to decriminalize marijuana (make using it no longer be a crime).

When cannabis (marijuana) is used, the user gets 'high'. The most common effects of the drug include happiness, feeling relaxed, being able to think clearly (or not being able to remember anything at all), and getting hungry.

Marijuana can make other things happen to the body and mind. These include not being able to remember things as easily, making your perception (how you see and feel) different, and making it harder to think and solve problems.

There are many ways cannabis is taken. The most common is smoking it. This is done by rolling it in paper like a cigarette, or using a pipe or a water bong and also making hashish. Hashish is processed marijuana.
Benefits of Marijuana
Marijuana is the safest of all drugs. It is far safer to smoke a joint than to have a beer. Pot is the drug of choice for people who want to get high, but be responsible in getting high. There are people who do no drugs at all, and that's fine. But for those of you who want to get high and be responsible, Pot is a very good choice.

Marijuana make most people more relaxed. It relieves the clutter and tension after a hard days work or school. It mellows you out and makes you more relaxed. It heightens the imagination and improves creativity. If you have a problem with anger, Pot is usually a good drug to reduce it.

Marijuana has other medical benefits. It helps reduce problems with glaucoma. If you have cancer, it reduces nausea from chemotherapy. I had a close friend who died of cancer. His doctor prescribed Pot even though it wasn't legal. I gave him some and it allowed him to eat food again. This was three weeks before he died. I think the Pot gave him another week of quality life.

Marijuana is especially good for those with high stress lifestyles. The brain has a tendency to lock on to a problem and your mind gets into a mental loop where you can't stop thinking about work or some other problem. Pot can help you break the cycle and see the problem from a different perspective, or allow your mind to move on and rest allowing you to enjoy life so that you can recover and have a fresh perspective for the next day.

Why Marijuana should be Legal
Legalizing Marijuana would be a benefit to society. We as a nation would be improved by it. There are several reasons I make this claim. Although Pot has it's problems, it's benefits for outweigh it's consequences.

If Pot were legal, many people would switch from alcohol to Pot. I think that a lot of Alcohol abuse come from the fact that it is the only legal drug and therefore is overused. Alcohol is highly addictive, physically and psychologically destructive, and is a severe drag on society. I think that if Pot were legal that many people would switch to Pot and be much better off. I think one side effect of legalizing Pot would be a major reduction in the abuse of Alcohol and that the number of traffic deaths would drop dramatically.

The only reason Pot isn't legal is because there are a lot of people making money because it's not legal.

Another reason is to save the huge cost in tax dollars wasted in prohibiting Pot and enforcing drug laws that have no benefit to society. If Pot were legal you immediately eliminate the illegal Pot market and get rid of crime associated with Pot money. You could also release from jail all those convicted from Pot related offenses and cut the costs of having to build new prisons to incarcerate normal people. Because of mandatory drug sentencing laws, many states have to release violent offenders to make room for Pot smokers. That's stupid!
Pot has many other uses. Before the lumber industry lobbied Congress to make Pot illegal, Marijuana (known as Hemp) was the primary source of fiber for the production of paper. The United States Constitution is printed on Pot. With today's technologies this fiber can be processed into construction materials that would replace wood products saving our forests and lowering the costs of construction while producing byproducts useful in making fuels to run cars and generate electricity. Hemp is a very hearty plant and would be a good cash crop for our nation's farmers.