Positive Long Term Uses of the Increasingly Popular Marijuana

Marijuana has been a source of medical use and has been used to relax over a “joint” for a long time. Before man started smoking Marijuana, It has been used as hemp, to make ropes, and other uses of hemp for the man of early civilization. It was used to put bandages on wounds and bruises and the oil from Cannabis has found medicinal uses in almost all of the ancient colonies of man. In modern times, marijuana is used to treat nausea and vomiting from chemotherapy in cancer patients apart from being a medicine for glaucoma, HIV/AIDS, muscle spasms and pain among other diseases.

Marijuana and the effect on Society

However, as we will find out in this article, the illegal nature of use of Cannabis has given rise to an illegal yet highly profitable business of trade in marijuana. It has long term effects on the society and encourages the criminalization of this process. The worst part of the whole process is the fact that the money generated from the illegal trade of Marijuana has become the seed money for other anti social activities and leads to flourishing of other evils of society. Not to mention the fact it often leads to turf wars and criminalization of the youth and poses a threat to human life and the normal functioning of the society. Not only that, the Marijuana sales and consumption has increased in the last 30 years and so has its availability. So, it can be safely concluded that the prohibition on marijuana did not work and we also can assume it will work in the future as well.

International trade of Marijuana and Globalisation

Drug Cartels based in Latin America have taken over the majority of the drug trade in the American continent. Not only it has led to the destruction of these countries, it also has led to the drug money being used to finance harsher and much more dangerous drugs apart from fuelling gang wars and the proliferation of weapons among the youth. The legalisation of marijuana under proper supervision and strict laws will definitely lead to the lowering of the illegal trade and take care of the associated effects of the illegal trade of marijuana. Legalisation of marijuana has found support for these reasons as well among those who can understand the long term effects of a prohibition on marijuana.