So I voted for the Aotearoa Legalize Cannabis Party.

So what? I’m not a druggie. I don’t actually want to see cannabis legalized. As Jason at work pointed out, if it was legalised then you’d see burglaries, and meth labs and stuff rise because, the same crooks who were growing weed are now out of job, and they probably won’t be wanting to get a real job, so their going to keep doing criminal acts that make them money.

But my thinking was if there was enough people voting for them (7,589 voted for them out of 373,000 dope smokers in NZ) then maybe they’d at least look at making it legal for medicinal use. And then, hopefully we could open the door to actually researching the drug.

It has so many uses. It is a wonder drug.

Here is just some of the people who can benefit from it:

• Arthritis sufferers: On the normal prescription drug for Arthritis; Non-Steroid Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs), something like 70,000 americans per year are admitted to hospital, and 7,600 die from the adverse affects.
• AIDs sufferers: Chronic Pain.
• Cancer sufferers: Chronic Pain and depression.
• Crones disease sufferers: It hurts these people to eat. And the stuff they do eat, their bodies don’t get much nutrition from it. So why not get stoned? It gives you the munchies, and soothes pain. A perfect remedy.
• Idiopathics: My mother is an idiopathic but unfortunately she is too much of a prude to try marijuana. Idiopathics suffer from a condition where their own immune system destroys the white blood cells, meaning the blood is really thin and doesn’t clot so easily so if they get cut, they don’t heal easily. Cannabis soothes the immune system which would stop the immune system culling all the white blood cells.
• Smokers: Obviously if you smoke, its your own fault, however the THC in cannabis is thought to kill aging cells before they turn cancerous, as studies have shown that there is no link between lung cancer and smoking of cannabis. Plus, people who smoke cigarettes and cannabis have shown to be less likely to get lung cancer.

So who are the authorities to tell us what we can and can’t put into our bodies? As long as it isn’t done in a public place it should be fine. Obviously its not ideal for these people to walk around all day stoned, but thats why we need to research this drug; to split up its components for the different uses available, cutting out the ‘high’ factor.

But honestly, at the end of the day, when did a bit of euphoria hurt anyone?

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