Thursday, February 28, 2019

Legalizing marijuana


Bhaang, thandai, chillum, no Holi or Mahashivratri is complete in India without them, core heart festivals are celebrated in full swing with pile of joy and enthusiasm in India. Days were when sadhu's and god's smoke chillum and drink thandai for soothing sense of delightness and to maintain the aura of their high spirit and sanctity. Bharat is always a land of religious and traditional beliefs, culture and moral,  being aware of marijuana's benefits and accepting it boldly in social culture with its influencing effect with sense of users of former times, holding out cigarettes, empty them,  fill them,  smoke them and then blow them in air was the spunk of cigars in 80'd and 90's era. Then ever-changing decade came with the pot smoking era that reached the tipping point in every nook and cranny of the country implementing it knowingly or unknowingly to certain their inquisitive desires.
Marijuana refers to dried leaves, flowers,  stems and seeds from the Cannabis indica plant, perfectly herbal in nature with medically proven health benefits and having characteristics for various ailments and disease including cancer, AIDS,  glaucoma. With so many medically proven health benefits it stands unhealthy at the same time if marijuana is used as an addictive substance.
The unparalleled debate on its addiction and health benefits mark a question on it acceptance or rejection status. Legalizing marijuana is need of an hour as the rate of marijuana had increased for all age groups not considering it's physical and mental stress in daily life.  Just like almost everybody smokes in India but hush not a word to anybody in society or poke them not to its consequences, although it is almost available at every cigarette and paan shack. The stance of holding the king-sized rolling paper portrays style statement of youths which is trending at fastest pace now a days.  Regular addiction of marijuana indulges people in marijuana offences as repetitive use of harder and more harmful drugs such as heroine and cocaine carry harsh penalties and undue social harm with life long consequences which seek the legalization of marijuana.  Legalization would logically end the discussion for such criminal behavior, without any such legal efforts the dynamics of overall development and growth of nations will lack behind resulting into its devastating outcome of defeat.
United States states marijuana as an illegal drug while Canada has just legalized marijuana. Countries with different norms legalize more or less marijuana accepting it rejecting it's pros and cons and impact on society. Legalizing advocates say cannabis is safer than alcohol various studies suggest marijuana is no harmful to a person health than alcohol or tobacco, which are both legal and widely used, and regulated by the U. S.  Food & Drug Administration.
Legalization not only regulate criminal offence but will boost medical alterations in many ways.  When people begin using marijuana as teenager,  the drug may impair thinking, memory and learning functions and effect how the brain builds connection between areas necessary for these functions. Marijuana overactives the part of the brain that contain higest number of receptors, changes in mood and impaired body movement, difficulty with thinking and problem solving, hallucinations, delusions,  psychosis, breathing problems, increases heart rate, problems with child development during and after pregnancy, intense nausea and vomiting.
An instinct blur image towards legalizing marijuana nationally is required for procurement as there are some places famous for it: Kerala, Meghalaya, Manipur, Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Uttrakhand, Mysuru even Bihar. In Odisha, it is relatively more acceptable and easier to procure. People in India on festival celebration uses it as a part of fest where bhang balls are being served on a silver platter. It was a part of traditional and local hospitality, in India keeping the law aside.  In status conscious Delhi,  smoking expensive hashish has become a form of conspicuous consumption, much like the iPhone X.  It's the contemporary equivalent of what the single malt used to be. Nowhere it is stated to ban marijuana, it's use procure it's reach to places, legalizing marijuana will give it a status and norm for judicial procurement in nation and it's high rate of unethical use can be restricted to maintain its herbal quality and essence.

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