I’m pretty much going to use this as a little list I can refer to. It’s quite scary, now that I’ve been devoting a bit of time to it, how beneficial and harmless this drug is.
Ok.
No-one has ever died from it.
All founding fathers of the USA smoked it – in fact George Washington grew it in his garden.
The Declaration of Independence was printed on hemp.
The reason it was illegal was because of the hemp industry – William Randolph Hurst had stocks in both timber and newspaper companies and launched a scare campaign so his timber products weren’t threatened by the cheaper and more reliable hemp which serves the same uses and more.
Legalising and taxing it means the UK economy can stand to make billions, less policework is needed on the streets, less petty offenders go through the judicial system saving millions too and the drug itself will be better-regulated by the government and less harmful.
Cannabis contains cannaflavins, which are shown to be considerably more effective than aspirin, as it contains higher anti-inflammatory properties.
Cannabinoids are found in every person, as they regulate normal human operation. It’s the same idea criminalising it as DMT – the drug which makes you dream i.e. trip.
The gateway drug theory has never been proven – in fact it’s more likely that cigarettes are responsible.
Marijuana is used as a medicine around some places in the USA and is shown to speed recovery or even cure mild illnesses.
One of the other reasons why this drug is illegal because of the overwhelming use of ‘legal’ drugs – pharmaceutical companies kill 100,000 people a year through their drugs, alcohol kills 150,000 and tobacco kills 450,000, though of course they’re all very taxable. (In USA at least)
In Holland where it is decriminalised (not legal but police confiscate and give you a slap on the wrist for personal ownership), crime rates are lower and the use of marijuana is at 60% of the use in the UK and US.
More later.
