Cannabinoids

The “gateway” drug is not as bad as people make of it. Marijuana is not socially acceptable by the society, people believe it is harmful to the body and that it has no help for anyone. The drug also has health benefits, but people still do not want the drug legalized. Since they have known about the drug, there has not been any scientifically proven facts that it is physically addicting. The only way it hurts the body is if it is abused by the person, but it is the same way with alcohol, or even…

20 Job Positions That Don't Require Drug Testing (Yet) We all deal through life’s struggles. It is mostly difficult to just let the days pass and not being able to do something for ourselves or for our families. Every one seeks for having a much better life especially being able to provide for the basic needs of the family. However, some individuals feel being restrained with the thought of not having a good-paying job because of one particular reason – drug testing. Some drug users may still…

The oldest written record of Cannabis was way back in 2727 B.C. from Chinese emperor Shen Nung. The Romans and the Greeks were also known to use Cannabis, which is also commonly referred to as weed. Weed spread throughout the Islamic kingdom reaching the Middle East and Northern Africa. Marijuana spread to the Western hemisphere where it was made available in Spain, then imported to Chile to be used as a fiber. When Cannabis had made it to Northern America, it was used in many ways other than…

conditions” (ProCon.org). Medication for people who have those diseases are very expensive. Medicinal uses for marijuana could cut the medical costs by a lot depending on how much medication they’re taking. The IOM also stated that, “The profile of cannabinoid drug effects suggests that they are promising for treating wasting syndrome in AIDS patients. Nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana” (ProCon.org). There are so many…

In light of the unprecedented election on November 8, the year of our lord 2016, that elected Donald Trump as our next president, California residents woke up with a massive what the heck happened headache. How could this be? How did America afford to elect a temperamentally unfit, manifestly unqualified candidate to the White House? The answer is many, but yet no one knows why or how it happen. Subsequently, us Californians can turn our sorrows and despair over the fate and uncertainty of…

The movie Reefer Madness was produced in the 1930s as propaganda, in order to make people believe that smoking marijuana would make them go insane or commit violent crimes. There was no proof of the accusations, but it scared enough people to keep them from smoking marijuana. The movie was intended to give marijuana a negative reputation, and it succeeded. In today’s society there is a stigma surrounding the use of marijuana, which I believe the movie helped to create. Over the last hundred…

Herb. Pot. Grass. Weed. Whatever word you may use for it, Marijuana, is a very relevant and largely debated topic in our country. During this past election a lot of changes have been made on certain states’ stances on the use and sale of Medicinal and Recreational Marijuana. Colorado, Washington, Alaska, Oregon, and the District of Columbia all have legalized the use and sale of Recreational Marijuana, while several other states have legalized the use and sale of Medicinal Marijuana. After the…

25 years of age law for smoking it both medically and recreationally, what are the positive psychological effects users can experience while using the drug? So first, it can be used to help control epileptic seizures. As Jennifer Welsh states, “Cannabinoids like the active ingredients in marijuana, tetrahydrocannabinol (also known as THC), control seizures by binding to the brain cells responsible for controlling excitability and regulating relaxation (Welsh, 1). This same report shows a 2010…

Barry Bonds, a seven-time National League Most Valuable Player and, 14-time All-Star, holds the Major League Baseball (MLB) record in career home run with 762. Even with these records and accolades, Barry Bonds is considered to be one of the most polarizing players of all time. This controversy stems from his history of using performance enhancing drugs (PED). In fact, from a recent Baseball Writers’ Association of America (BBWAA) ballot he received under 50 percent of the vote when he needed at…

use marijuana in order to stimulate the production of the chemical (Lawton, S. A, 2006, p.52). Marijuana produces a chemical called tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). THC disrupts the communication between neurons by interfering with receptors, such as cannabinoid receptors which are located in the hippocampus, the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, and the cerebral cortex (Lawton, S. A, 2006, p.53). When the receptors are disrupted, by the use of marijuana, in the hippocampus it causes teens to have…