Now, in and after high school I did experiment with any possible healing effects/remedies from cannabis. Being in Oakland at the time, it was part of the local culture, sub-culture and greater American culture regarding a pressing political/liberty issue. However, after getting very informed about the plants, the process, and most importantly, the roots and people involved in the process, I have become completely against the legalization of cannabis. Why? Here's why:
1. The plant is non-native to the American Continent. Period.
2. The plant has recently become treated like a slave in such a "green" world.
3. The middle eastern sources where too many people get their "pot" are in fact, American-hating imperialistic drug dealing hustlers.
4. Too many people use the veil of "medicinal" to beat around the bush of confusing branches all around what it means to ultimately not know how to deal with any set of problems.
5. Too many people are too uninformed about the plant to not abuse it and end up wanting to "get high" instead of heal any ailment. This is why so many people on the other side of the spectrum see it as a gateway drug. Sad, but true.
6. Ultimately, it has become so potent that it is now more of an annoyance to society than a beneficial liberty to take for granted.
Further explanation:
I joined the Cannabis Club when it first started up under a false pretense that was sugar coated by the club; which is ironic to the people it claims to help. I was under the impression the Federal Government had approved for certain states to legalize the plant's use under certain medical conditions. I was having severe back pain, insomnia, and slight depression when I joined, and later found out the clubs were beginning to excessively abuse what they considered a medicine. I was always coherent when I drove, however, and even got pulled over numerous times wherein the cops just let me go on my way since I was clearly coherent and not abusing the medicine it was supposed to be. I noticed several outcomes: people wanting me to get them weed which I wound up replying to with "get your own card, leave me alone." The second outcome was people noticeably more disabled than myself treating me in the most disrespectful manner at the supposed "compassionate care-giving groups..." The final straw was when I visited a San Leandro club and saw someone place crack-cocaine on the label of a bag nonchalantly. I decided to see if growing on my own personal property would do better; well, same results: a bunch of misunderstandings. I grew in a new way; I would play classical music and all kinds of other music to the 4 or 5 plants from seeds I'd found, in addition to changing the color of the lights. It worked out alright and there were only like 2 female plants; I ended up eating the male plants as not to waste them. However, then I noticed all the abuse on the outside and just abandoned it completely; also had a huge fight with the family on the home front due to an abusive situation. Anyways, at that point, I went to Washington and tried some of the herbal smokes around and came to the conclusion that I did not like how people were considering me some deadbeat stoner. People are straight up cloning plants, talking about suppression of rights, saying how its an ancient remedy...and then completely just suppressing themselves and giving the wrong impressions to the world while talking about intelligent medicine and compassion. Well, people, tobacco, for example is an american soil based remedy which is also abused. Pepsi, the soft drink, originated as an attempt to control Polio. Now it has a bunch of sugar in it and stains teeth like coffee...oh well, right? Wrong. Look at Debbi with the hole in her throat and say there is someway around the pathogenic kind of abuse lingering in the pot subculture. What's going to happen when people tax and regulate it? More immigrants? Shapeshifting subcultures? More Occupy movements? More like a bunch of morons wanting to change speed limits to 15 mph everywhere and getting agitated when they feel a liberty is a country's established freedom. If, say, drunk driving was legal and happened everywhere in the U.S., then what would that solve? In such an economy wherein the deficit keeps climbing, falling, and climbing again, is this really what taxes need to be spent on? Why is weed becoming more important than communication? Whats in the way?
Now, people will respond with "oh, the government doesn't give a shit, they just want us to work in pain, yadda yadda yadda..." And, while that might make up some of the government, the entire government is actually trying to keep the ideals of freedom and numerous liberties going so people are happy in such a chaotic world. Its essentially a stubborn kind of argument-tangent to the MAFIA and prohibition...
Prohibition caused problems. The entire crime-syndicate revolving around prohibition was due to dirty corruption. Not the idea of course... the idea was to keep society clean. However, there are benefits to drinking in moderation much like there are benefits to smoking tobacco [to help digest food and in a native american sense, help the dead animal or plants eaten realize they are no longer existing after their unaware death]. One the distillation process of alcohol was traced back to ultimate remedies from immigrants and native Americans themselves, it became accepted. Now, plenty of Sativa strains are rooted from Africa as natural medicines, as well as Jamaica...so that is a logical remedy for many of the immigrants from that part of culture... However, when the mob began bootlegging, the profits turned into what? Murder schemes, casinos, robberies, prostitution rings involving drugs from overseas power hungry gun-toting pyramid scheme conartists... I recently went to Guam after my father's death to help clean up the mess of a house he had died in, and people were killing each other over weed.
So, essentially, there is some logic to the whole debate about any medicinal properties, but there are bigger problems and plenty of time to work with the federal government to come up with a logical solution. Meanwhile, Mexican Drug Cartels keep using their weed rings to steal identities, terrorists in the middle east keep using profits to try and annihilate what they feel are problem-starters...and it viciously cycles back to a communication problem....
One of these problems [between communication and the legalization "question"] is being solved; the world is communicating more. The other one is masked by all the mis-communication surrounding it... Education is the only answer and once everyone knows what they're ingesting, where it came from, where it used to grow, why when they smoke it, it makes them lethargic [you're taking a piece of conscious life off of the world and chemically ingesting it unconsciously] , then people can tackle this issue further. As of now its just like watching the occupy movement on t.v. all over again... It looks stupider than it seems to the people doing it. I have yet to meet any intelligent stoners who have a valid argument why it is not a focal issue to governments and the medical community. Its more like a teddy bear to too many people, except, they don't realize it should have the chance to live free as well, not under some illegal little grow box solitary confinement frame of mind to be put on death row when its ready to mate. Its not nearly like a thistle weed...
The most logical solution would be to travel to Vancouver, or Jamaica, and heal there, then come back; more permanent problems ultimately aren't going to heal from distraction. Perhaps a hospice environment is more realistic...Its completely insulting to the world when people are so passionate about something that makes them "fit in" without any sense of the actual purpose of a movement... There's no civil rights hangings or public gang rapes happening to push it to any forefront of a pressing issue. The only thing is money. And, frankly, there are better ways to make money in my opinion.
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