Marijuana in the United States

[goldkingcoiner]

A number of territories, district and well over twenty states in the US have legalized recreational use of canabis.But considering it's many negative health implications,is it a step in the right direction or is it completely risky to continue legalizing it?
What's your take?

I think that there is a better question you should be asking. In fact, you are asking the wrong question.

Let me ask you this: Has the war on drugs been a success, from your perspective, is it hard to procure drugs? Have the laws at all helped the people or rather hurt them?

Instead of locking drug addicts up in prison and have them stamped out of society forever as criminals, should they not be rehabilitated? And since drugs are easy to procure for anyone with an internet connection, we cannot say that the restrictions have actually stemmed the flow of drugs to the people.

What the laws HAVE done is make a quality regulation impossible. So anyone smoking Marijuana (which is a racist term invented to unjustly blame the Mexican people for the distribution of the drug) is in danger of inhaling deadly chemicals because the dealers do not care about their customers health and would even spray the drug with deadly research chemicals to make it appear to be more potent. Some even add shaved, microscopic bits of lead or sugar to their product in order to increase the weight.

Anyone who wishes to take drugs will be able to procure them easily. So the government should finally acknowledge this fact instead of putting their heads in the sand and legalize them in order to take away the profits from the mafia/cartel murderers and instead use the tax from the sales to fund rehabilitation, youth protection enforcement and quality control.

Do you also have any idea how much tax money YOU are paying to lock up some pothead for years and years?

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[Stepstowealth]

A number of territories, district and well over twenty states in the US have legalized recreational use of canabis.But considering it's many negative health implications,is it a step in the right direction or is it completely risky to continue legalizing it?
What's your take?

There are many things that are legal that have equal negative health implications, marijuana is not the baddest of them all. People will keep using whether it is legal or not, so it is a step the government has made in the right direction to try to still make money from this industry and have a sort of control over it.

[darkangel11]

I agree with goldkingcoiner here. The laws are made by idiots who are looking to satisfy voters.
Prohibition was one of such laws that never worked and was lifted, now we have cannabis ban that is again being lifted. How many people went to jail because of smoking something that used to be completely legal for ages and then suddenly made illegal because it "made people lazy." Let's ban alcohol then, it makes people violent, but no, it would dissatisfy our voters, a lot of whom are heavy drinkers, and let's not forget how much money we're making from alcohol sales. How about banning cigarettes, they make people get cancer? Nooo, that would be bad for the economy because tobacco companies are taxpayers and many of our voters smoke... Let's ban weed then, none of this lot is paying taxes and they're mostly libertarians, artists, immigrants, who don't vote. That's how it started.
Bad economy? It's because those addicts aren't working!

[JeromeTash]

Grow it in your 'frontyard' and put up a sign, "Keep Off the 'Grass'."

I will, when I finally get a more accommodating compound because I recently got more seeds  , Can't grow it in the front yard at the moment because of a lot of activity there. Who would love to get their precious herb get destroyed by car parking or parties?  

[Marykeller]

The USA can't legalize marijuana for her citizens without finding the importance of taking marijuana into the body system. The USA already knows that legalizing marijuana would go a long way for her citizens who suffer from chronic pain, drug addictions, social anxiety, and depression. If it should be taken moderately without taking excess of it.

To me, this is a step in the right direction to set the people of the USA free from the false belief that marijuana has negative implications on the body.


While other countries are yet to legalize marijuana in their country, the USA is encouraging and using it as an open cure-house remedy for her citizens.

How I wish other countries would adopt this kind of move by the USA than declaring marijuana illegal without focusing on the positive effect of it on the body system of their citizens

[BADecker]

^^^ Right! If you combine THC and CBD with the natural pharaceutical chemicals found here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5440232.0 - we just might find that we can all live healthy lives well over 100-y-o. And maybe some of them can take us into our 200s or 300s, all in optimum health.

[BADecker]

This is even better. THCV. It's found in some marijuana plants, and it works almost the opposite of THC. In addition, it works even better in the presence of CBD.


Unpacking the Hype Around THCV, aka ‘Diet Weed’


https://www.healthline.com/health/substance-use/thcv
Dubbed “diet weed” and “weederall” for its purported appetite-curbing and energy-boosting properties, delta 9 tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) is fast becoming one of the latest cannabinoids on the market.

As with many other cannabinoids, including better-known compounds like CBD and CBN, THCV might not have intoxicating effects linked to THC, despite having those all-familiar three letters in its name.

How does it compare to THC?

It’s hard to give a straight answer.

“Anecdotally, people report that, when [THCV] is used in combination with THC, THCV can mitigate [the intoxicating] effects of THC,” says Jonathan Vaught, PhD, the CEO of Front Range Biosciences, an agricultural biotechnology company that specializes in hemp genetics.

Front Range Biosciences produces strains rich in THCV. These strains have historically been difficult to grow and process, because they couldn’t be easily scaled up due to little demand and an expensive isolating process.

As for THCV on its own, “it’s a little less clear,” Vaught says.

THCV is mainly found in cannabis products alongside THC. If the cannabinoid is isolated, purified, and “put into things,” it’s not even clear whether it’s intoxicating at all, he adds.
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