Cannabis, marijuana, pot, or weed it may have more than a name, however, it’s the same thing: a plant. Cannabis not always has had negative connotations in our culture; in fact, we’ve been aware of the plant’s diverse benefits for several centuries, tracking to five thousand years ago, when emperor Shennong, who studied hundreds of plants, including marijuana, wrote about the plant’s worthy medicinal values. I’ve always believed the plant to have more pros than cons, if I do say so myself.
During the beginning of the twentieth century, marijuana commenced to be stigmatized as the perdition of humankind. Religious groups began to construct a spurious negative reputation about pot, claiming to be “addictive” and “deleterious.” The U.S. government accused the plant of being the cause of breaking down the social order; inciting “white women [who smoke marijuana]… [to] want to have sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and other,” according to former commissioner of narcotics, Harry Anslinger.
In today’s society, now on the twenty-first century, we’re gradually opening to aspects that have been long deemed as potential Pandora’s boxes …show more content…
Emily Wilfong, spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Transportation, said “People metabolize it differently. There are different potencies.” There’s also the fact of lack of research on the subject, while Colorado started an awareness campaign to inform all its residents that driving while you’re high is illegal, there’s no research on how long somebody must wait before getting back to the road after consuming marijuana. Wilfong said that they don’t possess the information to say, “Wait x amount of hours before getting on the road.” Notwithstanding, both states did settled a limit for how much THC a driver can have in order to be sitting in the driver’s seat: a maximum of five nanograms per milliliter of
During the beginning of the twentieth century, marijuana commenced to be stigmatized as the perdition of humankind. Religious groups began to construct a spurious negative reputation about pot, claiming to be “addictive” and “deleterious.” The U.S. government accused the plant of being the cause of breaking down the social order; inciting “white women [who smoke marijuana]… [to] want to have sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and other,” according to former commissioner of narcotics, Harry Anslinger.
In today’s society, now on the twenty-first century, we’re gradually opening to aspects that have been long deemed as potential Pandora’s boxes …show more content…
Emily Wilfong, spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Transportation, said “People metabolize it differently. There are different potencies.” There’s also the fact of lack of research on the subject, while Colorado started an awareness campaign to inform all its residents that driving while you’re high is illegal, there’s no research on how long somebody must wait before getting back to the road after consuming marijuana. Wilfong said that they don’t possess the information to say, “Wait x amount of hours before getting on the road.” Notwithstanding, both states did settled a limit for how much THC a driver can have in order to be sitting in the driver’s seat: a maximum of five nanograms per milliliter of