Marijuana (Cannabis):

“Marijuana, while chemically distinct from the foregoing, is also considered as a hallucinogen.” Although any man who tells you that he’s seeing shit on the weed he’s got, you should ask him where he got it from. That shit may not be weed.

“Pharmacologically, it is not a narcotic although its control under the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937- and later laws- is somewhat similar to the control imposed on narcotics.” It’s also bullshit. Now you got to have a stamp that the government never made to get your weed? I’ll tell you why they never made any stamps, they were all too god damn baked. “Also, like narcotic law enforcement, marijuana law enforcement is handled by the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs as well as certain state and local law enforcement agencies.” Let’s be honest, if republicans really believed in a free market economy, they’d see that this drug, although intoxicating and stupefying, is not dangerous. In addition to that, it’s one of the biggest cash crops on the entire planet that actually is safe enough to be a healthy alternative to alcohol, tobacco, and certain seriously dangerous pharmacological remedies that are not yet properly proven to guarantee results. The Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs in addition to local law enforcement? Seems like a lot to take down some pot-heads. The most dangerous thing about the drug is the people selling it. Why not eliminate them and take over the game? Democrats are about freedom and social programming and republicans are about free market, together, they have the capacity to regulate marijuana while letting the people of America make millions off a non-lethal drug.

“According to the Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, Marijuana abuse is more geographically widespread than abuse of any other dangerous drug.” First off, to die from Marijuana, you have to smoke at least 3 times your body weight in weed. My lungs would quit and I’d fall asleep at about a pound of it. So, marijuana is not a dangerous drug. The fact that it’s the most widely used drug means people are probably not dying from it and the benefits outweigh the consequences. It also proves that governments around the planet can not stop people from using it, they can only nip at their feet by cutting off their sources every once and a while and ruining a good time. Like the guy at the bar who has to tell the story of how his sister died from a drunk driver when everybody’s at the bar drinking. Government opinion and regulation of this plant make about as much difference as their opinion and regulation of prescription medication or alcohol; two much more dangerous drugs that people abuse and actually die from left and right. In addition to that, what’s considered abuse? I consider abuse when a person is paralyzed by their addiction. Marijuana addicts, and I do know a few, tend to bounce right out of it when they can’t afford it. It’s a psychological addiction but not one that warrants cause for concern. If it was really abused by that many people, we’d have a much higher population worldwide, getting nothing done and this is not that time in our history. “Widely encountered in the Americas, Africa, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, It is known as bhang or ganja in India, Hashish in the Middle East, dagga in South Africa and maconha or djamba in South America.” First of all, I don’t know or care about all the names weed goes by but I do know that Hashish is not straight weed. It is a chemical concentration of THC through a process of breaking down the oils from the plant and adding those pure THC oils to already potent weed. Get your facts straight.

“The intoxicating substance which gives marijuana its activity, generally considered to be a tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) derivative, is found primarily in a resin from the flowering tops and leaves of the female plant. The potency of marijuana varies with the geographical location in which the plant grows, time of harvest, and the plant parts used.” This makes no sense because the potency of marijuana is determined by how it’s grown and taken care of, not the time of harvest or the geographical location. Any shlub with money now a day can buy a –ponics system and grow highly potent buds wherever they choose. They have to be careful of course because the police can bust in on them at any time but it is fact that if they preen their plant, take care that it doesn’t have contact with the outside, and/or can take care of that plant to make sure its growing process is undisturbed, the buds will get more and more potent as the plant tries to get fertilized. Fluke things can happen as well; the wrong temperature, not enough light, not enough nutrition, not enough water, etc. and any of these can result in plant death or the sex of the plant to change, creating less potent buds. The female plant is not the only version of marijuana that carries THC. The male plant can carry it as well. Perhaps not in large enough doses to get you to the high that you achieve from a female but THC is part of the marijuana plant in general. “For example, hashish is stronger than American marijuana because the former contains more resin.” Hashish contains more resin because it’s not marijuana and it can be manufactured in the US or in other countries. The fact that it has more resin is due to the fact that it’s not just the plant matter its self but plant matter added to more THC to produce a product that doesn’t even look like a bud, most of the time, presenting its self in dark brown brick form. It’s like if you were to take a plant and cover it in that THC resin that is extracted from the plant and then combined back into it to make a more potent substance that is not marijuana but simply “hash.” Hashish is manufactured in the United States as well. Some manufacturers even use driers from a washer/drier combo combine with special bags to create a substance called “bubble hash,” most commonly found in the United States in Hawaii. European companies dealing in marijuana, have for a while, sold seeds and other paraphernalia via magazines and the Internet but the most common place for Americans to get their pot accessories, when they live in a state that still enforces the illegality of pot, is Canada. With the emersion of pot dispensaries in California, the government is taking its first step against independent growers but the void is filled by many legal growers and pot enthusiasts creating a range of products that can be smoked, eaten, inhaled, drank or swallowed. While some say this increases the abuse of marijuana, the facts show that this is most likely the best way to keep tabs on marijuana users and how much they use because sales can be tracked and regulated.

“Medical Use. Marijuana once had a minor place in medical practice. But because the safety and effectiveness of newer drugs so outweigh the limited utility of marijuana, it is no longer considered medically respectable in the United States.” This obviously proves the out datedness of this book. Marijuana today, is safer than it’s ever been. With the derivative, THC, being made into new forms, I.e. swallowing the pot in cookies and cakes and various other foods, inhaling the pot with a vaporizer, taking a THC pill or drinking it in a drink, the dangerous and corrosive aspects of the smoke of marijuana are almost nullified. Marijuana has been proven to treat illnesses such as glaucoma, the sickness associated with Chemo-therapy, and a dozen other mental health conditions, actually made worse by a dependency on the pharmaceutical companies’ legal, but very dangerous drugs. Many of the legal drugs that are prescribed in the United States today are sold in a sort of black market trade between friends and family. These dangerous drugs are also proven to be more of a gateway to other drugs than THC could ever hope to succeed in becoming. Marijuana has been proven to not be physically addicting and although the mental addictions, because people like the high, are present, they still affect a smaller proportion of the world than the over one thousand dangerous and yet readily available to anyone with cash, drugs in the US today. There are many illnesses out there that use marijuana as a front but for the ones that really matter (Glaucoma and the stomach pains associated with Chemo-therapy) marijuana has proven its self more effective than the drugs they used to use which had little or no effect. “In a few countries of the world (Such as India and Pakistan) it is still a local remedy.” I don’t know the countries using marijuana as a remedy still but I do know that in many countries, including the US, Marijuana is a religious sacrament, a medicinal remedy, and a cash crop producing billions of dollars in California alone.

“Abuse: Marijuana may be smoked, sniffed or ingested, but effects are experienced most quickly with smoking.” Who the hell has ever heard of sniffing weed? Like seriously are you sure we’re talking about weed and not coke? I’d imagine you could get really, really high if you made a powder out of buds like hydroponic snuff but why would you? If it could be distilled down to the level of pure THC powder, you could get really really high, but in this case, it would probably turn out white not green and it would cease to be an all natural drug. In fact, we should let the pharmaceutical companies know about it. I hear they enjoy the adulteration of natural plant-like remedies.

In any case, I'm just one voice reading a book and making fun of it. I really don't care what your opinion is, however, I hope you've gotten a few facts, a few ideas, and a few laughs. Thanks for reading.