The Synthetic and the Medical Marijuana
We all know that technology is capable of manufacturing a wide variety of synthetics. Whether it is in clothes, furniture, even rice and body parts. The artificial may not have many advantages over the real but are cheaper, though. Yet the two worlds must co-exist and compete in the price wars and the advertising to grab the most costumers. Yet can the factory replace Mother Nature in manufacturing cannabis? The concentrate could be used like oil and other derivatives from a great variety of plants with many of them holding immense potential cures. Many plants of course besides cannabis provide the raw material for hard drugs like the poppy and the cacao that lead to heroin and cocaine. Let us hope that many diseases could be cured through medicinal plants in the future as they have been for hundreds, maybe thousands of years.
The San Diego synthetic marijuana sickness tale
In a place in California where the synthetic marijuana is termed ‘spice,’ twelve people experienced a synthetic sickness, shall we say? Several of them were teenagers and the symptoms reported were disorientation as a result of hallucination and even seizures that are rather serious indeed. The speech was unclear with a tendency to ramble, a common enough result of overdoing the marijuana stuff. The police there report that it is a manufactured weed and could have different strengths. The black packets contain figures of blue dragons, very symbolic indeed!
Is Pennsylvania going the medical cannabis way too?
With the medical bill being pulled from the proceedings after the planned House vote, Pennsylvania seems to be having second thoughts about restrictions on the cannabis plant and THC. The people naturally wish for the benefits that medical marijuana would bring and the planned rally seeks to draw attention to the crying need. A family lost a child to a severe seizure case of Dravet Syndrome. Many people, of course, wish for the legalization at an early date rather than the age-old politicking and squabbling for profits in the industry.
New Jersey struggles with the same issue
With all the legalization issues at stake not only in America but across the world in a raging debate about marijuana, New Jersey arrests people for possession of small amounts. As many as 24,000 arrests took place in 2013 for holding a little cannabis that could only be meant for personal consumption and not trading. Though the people are in favour, the Governor is opposed to legalization and that makes a difference. Strangely enough African Americans face three times the number of possession charges compared to whites though consumption patterns may be the same. Wouldn’t legalization be wiser now that research proves cannabis is no killer but the opposite, a savior?
