World Of Weed

This morning I read a very disturbing article on “Cannabis linked with psychosis and lung damage” by Chris Kalderimis of Dominion Post, stating its case against cannabis for medicinal purposes. The argument is that cannabis should not be legalised for medicinal purposes because of these side-effects.

Firstly, I would like to repeat my stance that people should be able to make up their own minds about how best to treat their conditions.

Secondly, there should be others who monitor the side-effects and are able to speak up if they see adverse signs appearing. This would be far better established if marijuana was legal for these purposes.

Thirdly, a natural substance will always win hands-down against man-made pharmaceutical remedies in any situation possible as far as I’m concerned.

Fourthly, if cannabis were a legal medicine, it could be produced at the right strength, without all the unnecessary added chemicals that make it strong enough to trigger psychosis.

Fifthly, for God’s sake man! Don’t you know that there are many more ways to take cannabis than simply smoking it?!!!! (If you’ve got a point to make, check out your facts first! You’ve clearly never even skimmed the surface of this so-called criminal activity!!!!)

And finally, if you want to investigate the detremental effects of drugs that are actually meant to help conditions, try looking into something like Seroxat! Seroxat is just one example of a pharmaceutical drug, developed to stablise an illness (in this case, psychosis) which had tragic and fatal consequences for its users. In some instances, patients with relatively mild depression ended up with full-blown psychosis and ending their own lives. Directly as a result of being on this medication. How is this allowed to happen? It happens because these new maufactured drugs are not researched and tested properly before becoming legally available. Unlike cannabis, a natural (and might I add, highly economical) remedy which has been used for centuries, its benefits and side-effects well-known to anyone who cares to read up on it.

Or try your average pharmaceutical pain-killers. Prescription pain-killers, used to relieve the terrible discomfort of MS sufferers, for example, can lead to irreversible liver damage and ultimate death due to liver failure. I have met many MS sufferers who regularly take cannabis, not because they want to get high, but because they find it is the most effective pain relief there is. They don’t have to smoke it. They can eat it or vaporize it if they choose.

And why does the government keep cannabis from becoming a prescription drug? Because the pharmaceutical companies who develop the brain-frying, liver-damaging alternatives are paying their wages. That’s why. It’s sick. And I’m sick of hearing ignorant stuck-up busy-bodies trying to educate the rest of the population on matters they know nothing about.

See my blog “Go Go Ganja Granny” for an idea about how this issue should be dealt with.