It’s actually legal in 23 states. Not just medical marijuana, but smoking weed (often under the guise of ‘medical’ use) has been legalized in 23 states and the pressure is on to legalize it nation wide.
Unfortunately, medical marijuana isn’t so ‘medical’ and the distribution of it has little or nothing to do with doctors, pharmacology or a prescription written to a patient for a medical need. The term, medical marijuana, is loosely used to give pot smokers the ability to grow and possess certain amounts of cannabis for their own recreational use and to give pot shop owners the license to ‘prescribe’ what kind of marijuana to distribute to specific people with specific needs and wants.
There are no guidelines on potency, restrictions of chemicals or pesticides used, or screening for consistent levels of specific components such as cannabidiol or THC… so there is no real ability to make it a legal drug when bought at a pot shop and smoked as is.
No doubt, marijuana, like many other plants, has the potential to be used for certain diseases. There has been evidence that supports a high cannabidiol (CBD), low tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)medical marijuana called Charlotte’s Web that has helped to lessen symptoms for some with seizures, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and other illnesses.
Yet, if the pot industry was interested in marijuana helping those who might benefit from something like Charlotte’s Webb, that uses the beneficial chemical components of marijuana without using the THC that causes people to get high, they would be focused on getting FDA approval for the health of those they say really need it.
Currently, the FDA has not approved any marijuana products and the American Medical Association remains very much opposed to the legalization of marijuana.
SO moms… you need to know that the pot legalization that the pot industry is talking about isn’t the medical marijuana is not as innocent as giving someone who has a legitimate medical need a way to reduce the symptoms.
It’s really about money and pot shops, marijuana growers, and all involved stand to make millions of dollars at the expense of those our kids and the next generation who will come to you and say, “What’s wrong with getting high?”
And moms are buying into it. Moms are getting high too. Passing on their habits like they pass a joint, their children are becoming the next generation of potheads who make excuses for getting high, not being able to keep a job, and not fulfilling their God-given destiny.
SOME THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW:
Common names for marijuana…
| * Weed * Pot * Reefer * Grass * Dope * Ganja * Mary Jane * Hash * Herb * Aunt Mary * Skunk * Boom * Chronic * Cheeba * Blunt * Ashes * Atshitshi * Baby Bhang * Bammy * Blanket |
* Bo-Bo * Bobo Bush * Bomber * Boom * Broccoli * Cripple * Dagga* Dinkie Dow * Ding * Dona Juana (or Juanita) * Flower, Flower Tops * Ganja * Gasper * Giggle Smoke * Good Giggles * Good Butt * Hot Stick * Jay * Jolly Green * Joy Smoke, Joy Stick * Roach |
Scientific Answers to How Safe Is Recreational Marijuana?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-safe-recreational-marijuana/
Adverse Affects on Children, Teens, and Pregnant Women:
http://novdec2014.blogspot.com/p/by-vanessa-hodack-colorado-wic.html
A Scientific Look at the Change of Marijuana Over the Past 20 Years:
http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/at-the-edge/2014/10/07/is-marijuana-harmful
Neuroscience Research:
LiveScience: Marijuana – Affects of Weed on the Brain and the Body:
http://www.livescience.com/24558-marijuana-effects.html
Dr. Sushrut Jangi – Can we please stop pretending marijuana is harmless?
A Physician’s Comments on Marijuana:
http://drlwilson.com/Articles/CANNABIS.htm
Health line – The Effects of Marijuana on the Body:
http://www.healthline.com/health/addiction/marijuana/effects-on-body
How Does Marijuana Affect You (A Medical Look at Marijuana):
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/marijuana-use-and-its-effects
Changes to the Mind and the Mood:
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/addiction/marijuana-use-and-its-effects?page=2#2
CardioBuzz: Doctors Weigh In on Marijuana:
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Cardiology/AcuteCoronarySyndrome/45413
A rehabs response to marijuana: rehabs.com:
http://luxury.rehabs.com/marijuana-rehab/dangers-of-marijuana/
Marijuana Edibles Blamed For Keystone Death:
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/03/25/marijuana-edibles-blamed-for-keystone-death/
CDC warns of marijuana consumption in report citing teen’s Colorado death:
Marijuana Intoxication Blamed In More Deaths, Injuries:
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/05/18/marijuana-intoxication-blamed-in-more-deaths-injuries/
Safe pot? Tell that to the 62 kids who died:
http://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2015/06/15/safe-pot-tell-kids-died/71267330/
Dangerous Pesticides Are Being Found In Colorado’s Weed
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/colorado-marijuana-pesticides_us_5655fcf4e4b079b28189fb8c
Fact Sheet on Marijuana:
https://www.cde.state.co.us/dropoutprevention/marijuana_health_effects
What Science Says About Marijuana (NYT):
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/31/opinion/what-science-says-about-marijuana.html
Researchers Study of Potential Occurrence of Strokes in Young People:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151026172542.htm
Marijuana and Your Health: What 20 Years of Research Reveals:
http://www.livescience.com/48171-marijuana-research-health-effects-review.html
Medical Research on Cannabis Use and Abuse:
http://patient.info/doctor/cannabis-use-and-abuse
Harvard Research on Addiction to Marijuana:
http://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/how-addiction-hijacks-the-brain
American Society of Addiction Medicine:
http://drthurstone.com/asam-marijuana-policy-updated/
DOCUMENTARY on Affects of Marijuana:
http://www.drugfreeworld.org/real-life-stories/marijuana.html
DOCUMENTARY on Affects of Marijuana on Teens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvszaF4vcNY
News Report of 25 Year Study Showing Cognitive and Memory Functions Decreased Significantly with Use of Marijuana:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/10/health/marijuana-weed-verbal-memory/
Increase in Fatal Accidents Report 12% of Traffic Deaths Tested Positive for Marijuana:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/06/09/marijuana-accidents/10219119/
Colorado Lawsuit Claims Marijuana Edibles Caused People to ‘Overdose’:
https://news.vice.com/article/colorado-lawsuit-claims-marijuana-edibles-caused-people-to-overdose
It’s About the Money – Colorado Makes Big Money from Legalized Marijuana:
THC Potency Is Higher Now (from 1.37% in 1978 to 8.49%:
The potency of marijuana – determined by measuring levels of its main psychoactive ingredient, delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) – has skyrocketed in the last 40 years. According to the University of Mississippi’s Potency Monitoring Project (UMPMC), the average THC content of marijuana in 1978 was 1.37 percent. In 2008, it was 8.49 percent. Yes, many CEOs and even presidents have smoked marijuana. But, clearly, this is not your father’s weed.
Cardiovascular Effects:
Smoking marijuana makes the heart beat 20-100 percent faster. is increase can last up to three hours. Marijuana also can change heart rhythms. One study showed marijuana users are 4.8 times more likely to have a heart attack in the first hour after smoking. Older people and those with heart problems may be at greater risk for heart attack.
Effects on Teens Worse Due to Use During Brain Growth:
Regular marijuana use among teens has been linked to social problems, learning and memory problems, and falling IQ scores. And these problems do not go away a er marijuana use has stopped.
Affects of Marijuana Use:
The use of marijuana is not only harmful to the pot smoker himself. He can also become a risk to society.
Research clearly shows that marijuana has the potential to cause problems in daily life. A study of 129 college students found that, among those who smoked the drug at least twenty-seven of the thirty days before being surveyed, critical skills related to attention, memory and learning were seriously diminished. A study of postal workers found that employees who tested positive for marijuana had 55% more accidents, 85% more injuries and a 75% increase in being absent from work.
In Australia, a study found that cannabis intoxication was responsible for 4.3% of driver fatalities.
It is almost impossible to grow up in America, or any country, and not be exposed to drugs. Peer pressure to do drugs is high and honest information about the dangers of drugs is not always available.
Many people will tell you marijuana is not dangerous. Consider who is telling you that. Are these the same people who are trying to sell you some pot?
Marijuana can harm a person’s memory—and this impact can last for days or weeks after the immediate effects of the drug wear off. In one study, a group of heavy marijuana users were asked to recall words from a list. Their ability to correctly remember the words did not return to normal until as long as four weeks after they stopped smoking.
Students who use marijuana have lower grades and are less likely to get into college than nonsmokers. They simply do not have the same abilities to remember and organize information compared to those who do not use these substances.
“The teacher in the school I went to would smoke three or four joints a day. He got lots of students to start smoking joints, me included. His dealer then pushed me to start using heroin, which I did without resisting. By that time, it was as if my conscience was already dead.” —Veronique
A CHRISTIAN RESPONSE TO WHY IT’S NOT ONLY ‘NOT GOOD’ FOR CHRISTIANS TO GET HIGH, BUT IT’S ACTUALLY SIN…
And so, dear brothers and sisters,[a] I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him.[b] 2 Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
19 When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, the results are very clear: sexual immorality, impurity, lustful pleasures, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostility, quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, division, 21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.
But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.
But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;
but hospitable, a lover of what is good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled,
that the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in faith, in love, in patience;
Likewise, exhort the young men to be sober-minded,
teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age,
Therefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and rest your hope fully upon the grace that is to be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.
So, sweet moms and ministry leaders. This is real and relevant info you need to know. The pot industry is making millions at the expense of our kids and their future depends on you knowing and understanding what pot does, what they want you to know, and what is true about the use of marijuana.
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