Marijuana is not just something that you smoke, it’s also used to brew tea, as a medicinal, and it’s also frequently mixed into food such as cookies, brownies, or candies.
Marijuana has a lot of chemical substances and the most psychoactive is THC: delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. THC, which is known as the most active ingredient in cannabis, is able to improve both negative and positive effects on those who use it. A small dose of cannabis produces euphoria, sedation, relaxation, and drowsiness; these effects are similar to those listed by alcohol. At high doses THC produces hallucinogenic effects: the increase in heart rate, more consistent in the first 10–20 minutes after which it drops rapidly; the pressure increases when the person is sitting and decreases when standing causing weakness and dizziness; conjunctival redness, while the pupil diameter does not undergo modifications; dry mouth (mouth and throat dry out); a sense of hunger that is given by the stimulation of cannabinoids of the appetite center and the system of gratification: eating becomes particularly tasty, enjoyable.
The legality of cannabis varies from country to country, depending on the distribution and the process of cultivation.
In 1937 with the Marijuana Tax Act passed by President Roosevelt, the plant marijuana was banned in the United States for the first time. After that, however, some states legalized cannabis. In 1996, California was the first state to legalize it just for therapeutic purposes, for example: to relieve chronic pain, and to counteract nausea and vomiting induced by chemotherapy, radiotherapy HIV and AIDS.
Nowadays in 8 (or more) US states cannabis is legalized. Apparently, against all expectations, the use of drugs, such as cocaine, heroin, or narcotics, by american teenagers seems diminished, to say it is a study conducted by U.S. “National Institute on Drug Abuse”. Only 5% of 17 years old admitted to smoking cigarettes every day, while 20 years ago the percentage was 22%.
Many people agree on the fact that foolish to prosecute those who just smoke a joint, given that marijuana is not as bad as alcohol and tobacco. According to research published in the journal “ Scientific Reports ”, alcohol has a hazard rating of 114 higher than cannabis, followed by heroin, cocaine, and tobacco. Historically no deaths have ever been recorded due to the use of hemp derivatives.
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However, public opinion often considers it a secondary issue; a simple matter of custom, and not a priority. Many, instead, consider the legalization of self-production and personal use of cannabis a priority that will produce huge economic savings for our country with just one move, inflict a considerable blow to organized crime, and above all will improve public health and therefore it will lead to saving for the pockets of all Italian/Americans citizens and not only for those who use them.
From the cancellation of the crime of production and sale of soft drugs market, the savings generated would amount to almost 800 million dollars, due to the lower expenses among magistrates, prisoners, and those related to public order and safety Economic and financial resources that could be moved to combat hard drugs, such as cocaine, heroin and synthetic drugs, these are really dangerous.
About 5 million people use hashish or marijuana, since it is legal to grow it at home these people are forced to turn to the black market. In a 2016 study, the University of Bern analyzed 191 marijuana samples seized by law enforcement agencies in Switzerland. The discovery is worrying: 91% of these products are contaminated. In fact, cannabis is 'cut' with substances of various types in order to increase the weight of the grass and have more profits, but also to increase the psychotropic effect or to make the flowers more beautiful. Ammonia, lacquer, glass wool, lead, aluminum, iron, chromium, and cobalt were found in the samples. Hemp is also a 'brush' plant capable of draining pollutants from the soil these substances, as well as fertilizers, are found in flowers. Obviously smoking these products can cause serious damage to the consumer, and these damages could be avoided simply by allowing everyone to carefully cultivate their plants.
The same considerations can be made for the so-called cannabis light, using the one for sale in the shops instead of the one on the illegal market is much safer for public health and represents damage to crime. Paradoxically, it would be even safer if the use of this substance was allowed for food or herbal purposes because obviously, the inflorescences should respect different, even more stringent, production standards.
Those who want to smoke a joint will certainly prefer controlled substances that can be bought regularly, without incurring penalties, and will not go looking for a pusher down the street, they will not call the drug dealer who 'draws' smoke at home, inventing code words on the phone to see if it's a good time to go and get it or not.
We have two possibilities before us: the first is to think of the ideal world that we would like and therefore to perceive as intermediate all the intermediate measures, those that intervene by gradually reforming, and that since they cannot solve the problem immediately and in their entirety they are perceived as useless. The ideality will be saved, but the reality is increasingly ruined, thus irremediably moving away from that world as ideal as it is unattainable. The second possibility we have is to try to 'reform' the reality we live in proceeding by trial and error, measuring ourselves against the complexity of real problems. Example: the mafias exist, they do business with drug trafficking, but also with construction, procurement, services, gambling, wherever there is a flaw in the system, or rather, wherever there is a 'question' to match an offer', but of all these areas the most profitable is the drug market. Because it is the most risky, it is also what provides the capital to be able to deal with everything else.
To conclude, I personally think that if we want to have fewer legality problems we should legalize marijuana because whether we like it or not, all the people who already use it will continue to use it, whether it is legalized or not, risking legal and personal problems, which could very well be avoided with legalization, since we can also use therapeutically.
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