Medical Marijuana.

You know, although I am a recreational marijuana user, I always thought that it should be kept illegal. I thought that if legalized, it would be used for all the wrong reasons.

After having looked into it a little bit, I have switched sides.

I thought that the inevitable gain in popularity for the drug would attract the wrong kind of user. People who want to use the drug to fit in, people who want to use the drug to look cool. Those aren't the type of people who should use marijuana. Marijuana's noteriety started with misconceptions. It is proven that alcohol AND cigarettes are worse for your overall health than marijuana. I'm not saying that marijuana can't give you cancer or slowly kill you, but it's not as bad as people make it sound. Facts like "there is the same amount of tar in 1 joint as 10 cigarettes," although true, taint opinions. Most recreational users might have a joint or two a day. Cigarette user are known to smoke up to and over a pack of 25 a day, balances out if you ask me, until you talk about the thousands and thousands of harmful chemicals put into tobacco.

Most notably, the sick should be allowed to smoke weed. Not that 12.5% THC level junk. If the higher dose stuff is too debilitating, put a warning on it like all the other medicine out there. To charge the dying poor 1,500% more than cost for second class medicine isn't fair. I realize that the street market stuff is twice as much, but if it's the difference between pain and relief, who wouldn't? Scientists are STILL finding useful medicinal properties in marijuana. It can help a wide variety of patients with their pain. If you're saying, "hey, so can morphine!" your overlooking the fact that morphine is extremely addictive, and in some ways similar to heroin.

If your put off by the fact that its unnatural to put smoke in your body, remember that you can use intruments that heat the thc content to activate it, but doesnt create smoke or burn the weed.

I could go on, but ive decided to post comments.

Podcast

So we're supposed to do a podcast. I didn't know what to do. What's a silly little prarie-boy going to write about? I don't know.

So ya, I decided i'm going to construct a podcast about my friends and I and our opinions about smoking weed. Sounds dumb? Maybe it is. But i'm sick of being thought of as stupid or passed-up for oppurtunities because I smoke a herb. Isn't tobacco a herb? But with like thousands of harmful chemicals added? Alcohol is a drug with far more severe long-term implications on your health in my mind, plus you just act like a jerk when your drunk. Weed smokers shouldn't have to put up with some of the stereotyped labels we are given. That can be said for a lot of people, but they can feel free to make their own podcast. We will speak self-appointed on behalf of the majority of our great minority.

Since when did clothes become so powerful?

In my experience, the clothes you wear tell very little about you. Sure I guess they can tell you how much money someone makes, but that's only really useful if your a shady character. I think the everyday clothes that we wear should be a true reflection of self, not society. This is the main reason I support the odd shirt with a message. Personally, I don't really care what's on your shirt. I mean, hopefully it makes me laugh, but if it doesn't then I guess I hope it makes me think. We looked at an article about a lady who caught media attention when she started selling T-shirt that said "I had an abortion." As for that shirt, if you had an abortion and you're proud of it, by all means wear the shirt. If you had an abortion and you regret it and you see someone wearing this shirt, please don't freak out, but feel free to express your opinion about it. If you've never had an abortion, you should probably stay out of it.

Back to the lady. I guess she writes for Maxim or something. The new shirt is a picture of a safe with the door wide open and a little note sitting in it that says "I was raped." My thought on this shirt are pretty much the same as the other one. Some people feel better if they can share things with others, privacy is not helping them. The same can be said I'm sure about people needing their privacy. Maybe, they should make a bunch of shirts like this, all looking exactly the same except for whats written on the note, and then make one with the door closed and mass produce it. Everyone has a secret right? anyways.

I think it's just another shirt and ya, whatever. The interesting bit is that this story is about the girl who makes these shirts, not the shirts themselves or the real supposed issue of creating conversation about rape. Nearly every comment for that article is about the shirts or the designer, not the issue. Part of me wants to agree with most people commenting and call her out on self-promotion. It's very possible her main goal was to become more recognizable and profit from this shirt, but it's also possible she's really just trying to raise awareness and help people. As strange as it sounds, I wonder if she's been raped, or is very close to someone that has. That's probably how I'd make my completly pointless opinion on her.

My problems...

We we're supposed to make a blog a long time ago and start posting about the things we've covered in class, sadly mine was locked by the website under suspicion that it was a spam-bot blog.

To get started on a few weeks of lost work:

I think it's important to write because it's such a timeless form of expressing opinions, especially now that we've entered the digital age. We know so much about the past because people we're smart enough to write it down. Writing something that's truly important to you is a way to make sure your words can last longer than you yourself can, in hopes that the words you speak can reach the ears of someone that needed to hear them when they needed to hear them.


As for the conservative party encouraging people to regurgitate information.

I think its ridiculous. I mean, telling your followers where you stand is one thing, but encouraging people to call into radio shows and say word-for-word what you wrote down is a bit controlling. Encourage people to have a more active roll in politics, doing something like this is just as passive as not voting, sort of. Just as progressive as not voting anyways.