college app. boston university

LEGALIZE and REALIZE
by: cody koda


A issue I feel very strongly is legalization of marijuana. Or other street names for it such as ganja, bud, buddha, weed , grass, cryp. I can give you many facts about this single drug and almost all of them have been proven to be correct.

First of all it shouldnt even be considered a drug , you may not know but it saves many peoples lives by being prescribed to patients rather than to have prescription drugs. Prescription drugs have killed more people than marijuana because there has been ZERO marijuana related deaths in the united states."783,936 people in the United States die every year from conventional medicine mistakes." said Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and Dorothy Smith. Also there are thousands of people if not millions that are medical marijuana certified patients.

As of now there are 13 states that have legalized marijuana and most have medical marijuana dispensaries where the patients can go and pick out which strain of marijuana and for what symtoms they have. Different types of marijuana help certain pain or disorders. Like a indica weed will help if you cant sleep and that would be recommended more for pain killing because it is a strong high more like a couchlock kind of thing. A sativa would help with migraines and athritis but a high will not seem as strong and wont last as long as a indica high. The states that legalized medical marijuana are hawaii, alaska, california, colorado, maine, michigan,
montana, nevada, new mexico, oregon, washington, rhode island, and vermont.

Sate laws specify that marijuana can be used for help treating disorders such as arthritis, cachexia, cancer, chronic nervous system disorders, chronic pain, Crohn's disease, epilepsy and other seizure disorders, glaucoma, HIV or AIDS, multiple sclerosis and other muscle spasticity disorders, and help patients cope with severe migraines, severe nausea, and the side effects of chemotherapy. It helps people live longer lives rather than having to take dangerous prescription drugs .

It is so easy to obtain this drug that children at the age of ten are using this drug . Most of them doing it to get "stoned" and others just to have the adrenaline of knowing they are doing something illegal.

The short term effects of using trouble thinking and problem solving, memory loss, dry mouth and throat, distorts perception. Most short term effects wear off within two to three hours.The thc will linger in your body for a week if you smoke occasionally and longer depending how much time you use the drug weekly or daily. Long term effects are memory loss, Impaired perception,
Diminished short-term memory ,Loss of concentration and coordination ,Impaired judgement,Increased risk of accidents ,Loss of motivation ,Diminished inhibitions ,Increased heart rate Anxiety, panic attacks, and paranoia Hallucinations Damage to the respiratory, reproductive, and immune systems ,Increased risk of cancer ,Psychological dependency.

Marijuana is five times better than ciggarettes because there are no chemicals its all natural . Marijuana is a weed and it grows like a weed .There are no additives to it , its just plain and simple . One marijuana joint is equivalent to five tobacco ciggarettes. And there is no such thing to overdose on marijuana unlike other prescribed drugs.

With the bad economy now if marijuana were to get taxed the united states would be bringing in money by the millions. If you think about it it will also hurt all the illegal drugdealers because people wouldnt come to them anymore because marijuana would be able to be found everywhere if it were to be legalized. Right now this is where all the money is being invested illegally so if it were legal it would be easy money for the united states.Also it would give alot more people jobs and it would be easy to open buisnesses.

To be safer when you smoke you can invest in a vaporizer which heats the weed at such a high temperature that it instantly turns to vapor and it all goes into a bag that you just inhale through. This helps because you dont inhale smoke so it wont mess up your lungs.

well I think if weed were to be legalized the economy would be alot better and medical marijuana patients would continue getting better help rather than pills.