We Are All on Drugs

So now we’re gonna talk about one of my favorite subjects, drugs. I enjoy learning about all the types of drugs that are out there, and their effects on a person, I enjoy learning how they came about, how they were introduced into society, etc., this is one subject I could read about for hours. Now most people don’t know this but most drugs out there were introduced into society with good intentions, a lot of them were used for medicinal purposes, until people enjoyed the effects these drugs gave them a little too much and they started to abuse them. People started abusing the drugs because our brain already created the chemicals that get increased when these drugs are taken, and as those chemicals are increased, or decreased in some cases, people enjoyed the effects they caused. Heroin was synthesized from morphine which was created to ease the pain of injured people. The first coca-colas that were created had cocaine in them and they were advertised as a sort of medicine. But those aren’t the drugs that we’re gonna talk about today, today we’re gonna talk about one drug that is well known to everyone, the one drug most people can say they’ve experimented with, the drug that some consider as the gateway drug to other harder drugs, that’s right Marijuana. The technical name for marijuana is Cannabis, but it is known by many other names. Marijuana’s history wasn’t so bad when it was first introduced, it wasn’t considered bad, nobody cared if you smoked it, grew it, whatever, it was widely known when someone did marijuana.  Then it got a bad reputation, people started saying it was a bad drug and it should be considered illegal, they said that marijuana turned Mexicans into super humans, and that was why it should be considered illegal. The war on drugs started and although chemically it wasn’t considered as bad as the other harder drugs, it was placed on the lists of illegal drugs and anyone who had it was arrested and placed in jail. Only just recently has it been made legal in certain states, but on a Federal level it is still considered illegal. Now this post isn’t an endorsement for marijuana, I don’t care either way whether it’s made legal or not, I just think that it’s stupid (excuse my language) that our jails are overcrowded because some people didn’t like that people of a Mexican descent where smoking this drug. That’s all for today, before I go into full rant mode and exceed my word count.

P.S A little fun fact for you: The father of our country, George Washington, grew marijuana in his back yard.

(This video shows more information on marijuana, it's history and the war on drugs. Its a little fast)