In the past few years there have been many “Weed Movies” made and even a hit television show called Weeds. Harold and Kumar, How High, Super High Me, Knocked Up, The Wackness, Pineapple Express (coming to theaters August 6th), and so many more have all come out within the past ten years. Is this increased media exposure, and glorified look at drug use corrupting the youth of America?
My brother Jonny and I used to be close. He's a year younger than me and I can remember when we spent days and days playing together; we were best friends as children. I was always on his side, he was always on mine. We were family and we took the blame together, shared the joy together, everything. In our family it was Chelsea and Jonny, the young ones, the kids.
I just spent an hour and fifteen minutes engaged in a class discussion about whether or not the government should be allowed to make drugs illegal on the basis of regulating our health. Questions were posed such as "should the government then make food that makes us fat illegal?" But what if that's not the issue?
The government’s prohibition of marijuana is unconstitutional and must be repealed. Like speech or suffrage, how citizens choose to treat their bodies is a civil liberty. The body is an individual’s most intimate and important property. It is unconstitutional to control how citizens choose to treat themselves.
Earlier today I posted a blog about how I thought that marijuana should not be legalized. A close friend of mine read the blog and told me what she thought. And she may have actually changed my mind. Something about the way in which she articulated her point drove me to reconsider the subject.
I've been pretty ill for the past... oh... six months or so. By "pretty ill" I mean I am usually physically unable to eat. I have no appetite whatsoever and randomly get nauseas or start puking my guts up even when I haven't eaten anything in the past couple days.
I've been hearing a lot lately about the legalization of marijuana, and I would seriously like to know...what's the point?
Most people I've heard speak about the legalization of marijuana had just taken a puff off of a bong. I quit smoking pot when I was in my very early 20s. I do believe that it is in society's best interest to legalize it for many reasons.
