Author: Ashley

A few weeks ago one of the players on the school baseball team was kicked off due to smoking marijuana, but this has started a debate on campus, because most of us don’t understand why this happened.

Weed is not a performance-enhancing drug, so what’s the big deal? If a person does cocaine it gives them an unnatural burst of energy and focus, so athletes shouldn’t use it while in games.

Taking opioids can reduce pain and inflammation, and help a hurt player to play a little better, then but what benefits does cannabis provide an athlete? The only situation where I see cannabis being a performance-enhancing drug is for Nathan’s hot dog eating contest. This has led to a series of public debates on campus about cannabis use, and its legality. A big protest group even picketed the baseball stadium, because they felt it unfair that this student lost his scholarship just for smoking a little cannabis! I have listened to a few of these debates, and nobody has managed to change my mind about cannabis. While I think it is foolish for an athlete to smoke cannabis, by no means should be against the rules. If people want to smoke cannabis, let them! Slowly this country is changing the way it thinks about cannabis, but my buddy and I still have a long way to go. Eventually marijuana will be as commonplace as tobacco or alcohol, and I know this country will be better off for it. The bottom line is that marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug, and never has been.

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After my girlfriend kicked me out, I stayed on a friend’s couch for a few weeks.

It was supposed to be a few days, but time got away from me.

I needed a permanent place to stay, and I also needed to find a better job. Life was not good at that particular moment, but then we got thrown a lifeline by an old high school chum named Zeke! Zeke had been the guy who sold me marijuana back in the day, and my buddy and I were regularly friendly. Zeke heard through the grapevine about my extreme state of affairs, and made me an offer – come stay with him and work on his marijuana farm as a hired hand. He had almost an acre of cannabis plants, far more than he could handle on his own. I would get free room and board, free cannabis, and a few bucks every once in a while. It was not a great deal for my long-term future, however I went for it anyway, then quickly I came to discover that I easily liked the simplicity of being a cannabis farmer. Tending to the earth, making sure the marijuana plants grew to their full extent, and then engaging in a harvest. It was a lifestyle I had never experienced before, and I enjoyed it! I will admit that being able to smoke cannabis whenever I wanted made it all the sweeter. Zeke and I have become close friends, and he has even started teaching me some of the more advanced techniques for marijuana cultivation. One afternoon I might start a cannabis farm of my own.

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The book club meetings used to be hosted by Jenny, who to put it gently was a fussy old biddy, butJenny was great, and easily enjoyed books, but the meetings just weren’t much fun.

After a few months the attendance started to decline.

My associate and I started with fifteen women in the book club, but once our numbers dwindled to seven of us, I realized my buddy and I had to make a change. I told Jenny that I wanted to take over the meetings. She was salty about it, but finally agreed. Then I told her my plan was to hold the meetings in the smokers lounge at the local cannabis dispensary, and she was aghast! Jenny is an old woman, set in her ways, and she has spent her whole life thinking cannabis was dangerous. Everyone else in the book club liked the idea, so the following month my buddy and I held our first meeting at the cannabis dispensary. There was a little confusion at first, because some members are older and can’t be around secondhand cannabis smoke because it affects their breathing. They were relieved to find that there was no secondhand cannabis smoke, because the only products allowed in the lounge are smokeless. For the first couple of meetings I bought cannabis edibles for most people, just to demystify the situation and make them feel more comfortable. No one is required to use cannabis products for the book club, of course, it’s 100% optional for most people. I am supremely stoned for every meeting, mostly due to the high-octane cannabis drinks I like to sip while in the meeting.

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As a kid my folks made me go to the local pentecostal church.They weren’t snake handlers, but they were pretty close to that.

• The church was a home for hellfire and brimstone, where the preacher condemned the wicked and also condemned those who didn’t tithe enough.

I hated every second of it, and as soon as I was of legal age I quit going for good. My parents seemed to get more fervent the older they got, as if all sense of reason was abandoning them. The issue came to a head over the subject of cannabis, which my parents said was sinful and immoral. I asked them to simply explain why cannabis was sinful, and they didn’t have an answer. I asked them why cannabis was here on this planet in the first place, and they didn’t want to say the answer. So I answered for them – marijuana is a plant, and God put plants here for humans to enjoy. Finally I asked them to show me the passage in the Bible that said cannabis was immoral, and they couldn’t do that either. Although marijuana has been grown, and enjoyed, for centuries, it is not mentioned in the Bible at all. I told my folks that if the Garden of Eden truly existed, then it was full of marijuana plants! My parents got angry with me, but couldn’t refute anything I said. I doubt that they will ever try marijuana themselves, however I hope I was able to show them the light of reason, and that cannabis was an enjoyable thing.

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For several years I had an ongoing debate with my father about the legality of marijuana, but he was strongly against it, and agreed that potheads should be locked in jail.

• He had several reasons for his beliefs, none of which made any sense to me at all, first of all, my dad is a deeply religious guy.

He was born and raised in the Catholic church, which left a permanent stain on his soul. Seriously, you have to admit that the Church is responsible for more evil in the world than anything else. Still, the religious condemnation of cannabis makes little sense to me, because it comes from a plant. If you believe in God, and that God created all life on Earth, that means you believe God created the marijuana plant. If God created the marijuana plants, how can it be wrong, immoral, or sinful? You might as well say that potatoes are sinful! Beyond that fight, what about all the medicinal properties of the cannabis plant, how can those be dismissed? Cannabis is a powerful plant that can help a lot of people lead better, more fulfilling lives. Finally, last but not least, I asked my dad to point out the passage in the Bible that says cannabis is wrong. He could not do that, of course, because marijuana is not mentioned anywhere in the Bible. The people who run the church, and run it as a company might I add, have decreed cannabis is being immoral, but they made it up, because it was never written in the Bible.

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