The Dangers of Marijuana

Cannabis Sativa has been used to produce medicinal and leprosy drugs and their fibers for centuries, but it is used for the manufacture of linen cloth and paper. Medically, between 1850 and 1942, it was prescribed in the US Pharmacopoeia as a treatment for various diseases including gout, tetanus, depression and delirium (Farthing 1992). Today it is used as an antiemetic to relieve chemotherapy-related nausea and as an appetite stimulant for AIDS patients, used to lower intraocular pressure caused by glaucoma.

As your child grows you are often told about the danger of the drug because the medicine is illegal and cannabis is the medicine, so it is dangerous. Likewise, the "dangers" of cannabis can trace back to the 1930's and the negative publicity surrounding it, to quell private interests and strengthen racial stereotypes; to real health to your health It never brings danger. In 1974, Dr. Robert Heath of the University of Tulane conducted a test to test 30 monkey joints every day to test for adverse side effects. Many monkeys began to die after 90 days, the college reported that the monkeys died of brain cell death and concluded that the brain was destroyed by marijuana ingestion. However, official test observations and results were bound to the public for six years until 1980 when NORML sued the university, and they were released to the National Cannabis Law Reform Organization (NORML).

In 1970, according to statistics, the US drug problem has reached epidemic level. The leader of this problem is marijuana. According to Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Agency, hemp is a portal drug - all forms of madness and overdose are directly attributable to smoking marijuana. In 1968, Congress planned to combat drug problems through the establishment of the Anti-Drug Drug Drug Agency and appointed a 39-year-old law enforcement officer named John Ingersoll. By 1970, Under the leadership of the Nixon regime, Ingersoll transformed the department, added approximately 1,500 agents, seized large amounts of drugs on an international scale. The biggest problem is heroin. But Ingersoll believes that marijuana is just the beginning of adventure and occasionally makes Pot smokers matured into drug addicts.

"The drug problem has been broken up in severe ratios" - John E. Ingersoll: Drugs and dangerous pharmacies - 1970