What’s wrong with smoking marijuana?
Why is the government and society so against it?
No I don’t smoke, but I have, and I will agree that if it is abused like anything else then it can become a problem. However, smoking marijuana gives you the ability to see the world differently and make you more in-tune with your surroundings.
Some people will argue that how you feel when your “high” isn’t real or imaginary, however I would argue that theory. In my opinion it is a drug whether legal or illegal, therefore it is bound to affect your body in someway, like any other drug.
I’m not advocating for it’s use, because I do know what marijuana abuse can do to your mental health and your life. But overall I don’t see much wrong with it and I’m talking about mentally and psychologically not so much the smoking health affects.
@Houston:
1. I said I don’t smoke marijuana
2. Your taking what I said out of context…. I said marijuana ABUSE can affect your life and mental health.
3. There is no problem with what I said, the reason that it’s not legal is because it would revival Big Tobacco and pharmaceutical companies…. The government let’s us drink alcohol and smoke cigarettes and look what those do to our body mentally and psychically. It’s all about the dollars….. You really think marijuana is banned because they “care” about us??? LOL
marijuana high? it’s different for everybody.
i like to think about everything, and i mean EVERYTHING.
but i know people that don’t like to think at all. it really just depends on the person & how they are when they’re sober, all it does is it enhances that persons mental capabilities but it’ll never change you into something you’re not. if you were smart before, you’ll always be smart, if you were dumb, it’ll make you seem dumber, if you were lazy, you’ll still be lazy etc.
i wrote this a while ago:
i no longer need my inhaler for my severe asthma i had as a kid.. & i when im ‘baked’ i can see clearly not only in my mind but i can read road signs & see other far away objects i normally wouldnt be able to see when im ‘sober’
they treat us like criminals for something very natural
arent we all just made out of atoms? so what if i want to light a doobie & do my math homework? or maybe just sit on my couch & do nothing at all because it makes thinking that much more exciting? whats it to the government? who exactly am i harming? i know im not harming myself. im not going to move onto harder drugs & anyone that does is stupid to begin with.
if i can kill a cow & eat it than i can grab a nugg & smoke it
be free peace
When compared to the LEGAL drug (alcohol), marijuana is almost laughably benign.
Taken in small doses, weed isn’t that bad. It certainly isn’t as bad as smoking cigarettes, healthwise.
According to professor Noam Chomsky, a political activist who teach at MIT, marijuana is illegal because it is impossible to commercialize it. Whereas tobacco requires cultivation and technique, pot is essentially a weed that anyone can grow with little effort. Making it legal would take hurt the powerful tobacco industry, so it doesn’t happen. Yea that’s the political reason according to him.
Psychologically I don’t think it’s too bad. It tweaks how you think a bit, but it’s not like a complete takeover like the ones you get from LSD. Not that dangerous in my unprofessional opinion.
Only bad thing about marijuana; its illegal…..
Many people cannot stop once they have started and they find that all their time and money has been spent on marijuana so that’s something wrong with it. I think society is against it because of all the governmental propaganda. It wasn’t illegal until Richard Nixon-you know, the infamous lier?-put it on schedule one probably because he wanted to use it to punish illegal immigrants from Mexico who supplied much of our weed.
Making it legal would not exacerbate this problem. If you look at the history of prohibition, we have no reason to believe that legislation and punitive action has a positive effect on substance abuse issues.
That help?
– So you don’t advocate it’s use because you know what it can do to your mental health and your life, but you don’t understand why it’s illegal. Do you see a problem with your own statement, or are you smoking it now?
Why not advocate it’s use? What harm is marijuana doing that alcohol isn’t? Should we really be focusing so harshly on the negatives even though the positives out weigh such? Yes, they care about our money that we POUR INTO ANTI DEPRESSANTS AND ALCOHOL. Really, why don’t you go look up the mental affects that occur because of all of the pharmaceuticals they’re pumping into us. Imagine if everyone smoked a joint vs downing a 6 pack. Two very very different outcomes would occur. I’m not by any means saying marijuana is useful to everyone. In fact there are many people who should not indulge. Because people who are not mature can easily abuse any substance. I’m sure they’re are many things you all abuse that you don’t even realize. The key is to begin using marijuana for personal growth and medication. Not everyone can do this, not every has, and not everyone will. That we can not change, which is why it is so looked down upon. But every human is different, and every human deserves the right to a happy, enjoyable, and experience filled life.
From when I first can remember by young life to age fourteen I was an angry child. Bitter because of my anger, I hated everyone and everything. I turned every loving person against me in my own mind. I was mentally trapped. I watched my mom take anti depressants every single morning and wondered, is this what my life will succumb to? Why was I born like this? All because there is a chemical in-balance in my brain just like her? I was convinced that I was born this way, and there was nothing I could do to change my anger.
And then I took my first hit of cannabis, and it forever changed my life.
I didn’t smoke with my friends. I didn’t smoke because anyone peer pressure me into it. You could argue that I smoked to escape my anger yes, but I argue that I smoked out of pure curiosity. I wasn’t like, hey I want to smoke to see if this calms me down. That wasn’t my intention at all, or even an option in my mind. I didn’t even realize that my anger was being fueled by my own thoughts. I didn’t understand why this thing, this drug, this plant, was illegal, when alcohol which killed people on a daily basis, was legal.
I remember it all so clearly. I became calm. I began to realize how I was wasting my life away by being angry. Angry at things that I should be rationally dealing with and learning from. Cannabis helped me let go of my anger. If I faced my problems in a collected manner, a collected resolution would arise. It changed my thinking, NOT MY HABITS. If I would’ve never smoked pot again, I would still remember that life changing moment. And I would still be the same calm collected person I am today. Have I smoked pot since? Duh lol. But does that make me a monster, am I really doing something so wrong that I don’t by any means need to do, but enjoy doing? Am I not a fully functional member of society, with a job I enjoy going to, and a house I enjoy paying for with my hard earned money? Why do I smoke NOW? Same reason people ride horses, and paint pictures, and make music.
I am the same as all of you, a genuinely nice, motivated, and happy human being, and I smoke pot. I mean really, why would you want anyone to turn out like this? What a horrible state of mentality I have been dealt…