Imagine this: You're in a rugby game, playing at full-back. An easy kick comes your way, and you're psyched. When that ball lands in your hands your team will win, and you'll be a hero. But, you're a little off. You drop the ball. So much for your dreams of glory. Such loss of coordination can be caused by smoking marijuana.
There is so much wrong with that statement as a rugby player and a weed smoker, I don't even know where to begin. This is the kind of rubbish the kids now a-days are getting educated on marijuana.
I don't know why, but all these websites for some reason seem to have no conclusive answers to the negative effects of cannabis, but yet it’s obvious to see the major bias against it. Like a website called: Ask Dr. NIDA, Absolute bullshit. It links marijuana usage to the spreading of HIV and AIDS, using its nice use of 6 degrees of separation. I’m sorry doc but I think you’ve got….
This is the same website that told the telling statistic that marijuana can cause reckless driving by stating “In one study of 150 reckless drivers, 33 tested positive for marijuana.”
Wait a minute here, that's only 22% of people who drove reckless while high, that means the other 78% were straight. Does that mean you’re more likely to drive safer when you’re stoned?
Do you know how many people were killed last year resulting from marijuana? Heck the whole time marijuana has been around; ZERO deaths have been recorded resulting from marijuana use.
What about tobacco, oh just around 5 million worldwide annually, about 5000 in New Zealand alone. It’s a shocking statistic so why is tobacco legal, yet cannabis isn’t.
Although I do admit marijuana isn’t all that good for you, as cannabis does contain an amount of tar and like all drugs chronic use can cause health problems. It is true it does contain potential medicinal qualities. It’s not just a myth, it is correct. Smoking the good stuff is able to assist in pain relief; it is able to improve the nausea caused by cancer chemotherapy, also it is proven to be beneficial for Glaucoma sufferers as it relieves the pressure placed on the eyeballs, also marijuana significantly reduces pain in people with multiple sclerosis.
It is sad to see that generation after generation is being tragically misinformed about this topic, and there is still a stigma attached to marijuana even though these myths have been scientifically proven to be all lies. Now I’m not promoting the use of marijuana by writing this blog, but to educate people on the proper facts. As somewhere down the line in life it is inevitable that the option to do drugs will come available, and hopefully you will now be able to make an educated decision whether or not to do it. Of course if you don’t want to do drugs that’s absolutely respectable and should be encouraged. But here are 15 SUPER COOL(lame) ways to say no.
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