I'm also going to refer Marijuana as Weed.
Marijuana is a plant that can be tracked back to the 3rd millennium bc. It has been in the past a plant that was cultivated for its spiritual and health benefits and even used as hemp. The wonder plant that could do anything but as people did research they found that it was highly addictive and found very shocking side effects which were more potent the cigarettes.
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Weed has been used for thousands of years and only now we know the negative effects. Effects of euphoria and anxiety were usually experienced but more chronic users had a wide range of effects on them. Effects such as degraded intelligence and schizophrenia were experienced by chronic users but these tests were never extensive.
Its uses for hemp are very wide and was once called the billion dollar crop. Before the ban of the plants in the 1960's it was used by many figures used the plant such Thomas Jefferson. Its economic potential is astounding even without marijuana but if it were to go to market I'm afraid of the backlash that the side effects will have on our community. People will most likely be less concentrated and by personal uses of it and proof from this test (Super High Me) In the article/movie some parts of your brain are actually improved while others were weakened. I believe this is becuase of less stress and that the muscles in the brain are relaxed to a point where it is difficult for them to learn new information but can remember old information since the memory section of the brain is not as effect by thc the active ingredient of weed.
Medically the weed is a half and half drug; Being that it is accepted by many people that it makes you dumber. But it has a wide range of medical uses such as to dull pain without many side effects. Ulitmatly people who have a severe enough alignment weed is really the only option without too many side effects such as vicodin. And even one of my relatives took weed to dull the pain when he had cancer.
Weed its main argument against it is that weed is a gateway drug as it usually lead people to do stronger drugs. It is also stated that legalizing it allow it to easily come in the hands of children. It is also said that legalization will lead to stronger drugs being legalized. To these things i would say that it weed is no more harmful to cigarettes but the intelligence drain will probably hurt out generation in the future.
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