Marijuana In The Real-World
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Marijuana In The Real-World

Understanding myths and fact.

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Our world is a gray area. Marijuana is legal in some states but federally is illegal. This gray area can confuse the public. Uninformed adults look at it like cocaine or acid but that is because they do not know about weed. It is categorized as a drug and that scares people, but drugs do have their place in the world. Not only are they prevalent medicinally, drugs are in daily life. Just like drugs such as Tylenol and caffeine, the drug is positive if the person is acting responsibly.

Marijuana is not a dangerous drug. Overdosing is extremely difficult on this drug, the drug itself is not addictive, and studies have found that pot is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco. Not to mention how dangerous the drug is when compared to drugs like ecstasy.

Keeping the drug away from children is a decent idea in retrospect but the number of teenagers who smoke weed is not affected by the legality issues in that state. Prohibition didn’t work again. Teens realize that marijuana isn’t what it was always made out to be.

One reason the drug is shielded from adolescents is that weed is believed to lead to a loss of motivation and apathy. Studies were done, where marijuana was determined not to be connected to a lack of motivation. Just like anything though, if you smoke too much weed or anything, your abilities and functions are lowered.

Marijuana also mythically causes memory loss. Though this can be true in terms of short-term memory, the person must be high first. They may have troubles learning new things while high but they are able to remember what they knew before smoking weed.

The belief that marijuana causes lung cancer has been debunked as in 2006 when UCLA was trying to prove the drugs affects lung cancer. However, this study among others found that marijuana helps inhibit the growth of cancer.

There are two types of marijuana, Indica and Sativa. The different strands make you feel different ways that can benefit your mental health. For example, someone suffering from insomnia might be interested in looking into a strand of Indica. Some pot is good to calm nerves, anxiety, or even settle negative thoughts.

Weed is not worse than alcohol or cigarettes, studies have shown that perhaps it's better than other poisons. Through understanding and careful usage of the drug, our country and world would benefit from the utilization of marijuana.

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