MARIJUANA CANNABIS POT WEED

More Americans are using Marijuana daily then are smoking cigarettes. More Americans are using Marijuana daily then are drinking alcohol of any kind. Approximately 22 million Americans use marijuana on a daily basis, so says the SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION (SAMHSA). 22 million Americans! Every day! By comparison, 20 million Americans smoke cigarettes (horrendous) and at least 17 million Americans consume alcohol on a daily basis. However, the larger and more disastrous figure is that some 44 million Americans use cannabis on a regular basis while 36 million Americans smoke cigarettes on a regular basis (not necessarily daily). There has been a 21% increase in the DAILY USE of pot/weed from 2022 to 2025, driven by young adults aged 18-25 who made up 8.4 million of the regular cannabis users. What a horrible, frightening, potentially lifelong disastrous use of a potent drug, which so many think is really, for the most part, harmless. The reality is marijuana is a potent, brain-changing drug which, when overused, can have disastrous and lifelong horrendous effects on the body and brain of the user. Amazingly, the Department of Justice recently re-classified medical cannabis (marijuana use for medical purposes) into the same category as Tylenol. Currently, there are 24 states in which the recreational use of marijuana is legalized, and more states are considering the same permissive behavior, while a total of 41 American states approve the use of medical cannabis for medicinal use! This potent drug is here to stay. 2 The newly grown marijuana now has a considerably more potent effect, a greater high, and a more addictive effect on the user. As a result, medical emergencies related to marijuana use have skyrocketed and rates of addiction have increased by 30% in recent years. Teenagers who use cannabis more than double their chances of suffering from serious psychotic disorders, including bipolar conditions and schizophrenia. It is much easier for a young person, a teenager or one in their early 20s, to become hooked, truly addicted to the use of this extremely dangerous drug. This addiction, where the use of marijuana becomes an integral part of the user, can last a lifetime. Even if not addicted, the user can have a daily and constant NEED FOR WEED, or surely a very strong desire to smoke the marijuana joint. Want and need are simply lesser forms of addiction, and marijuana use then becomes part of the lifestyle of the user in a permanent way. The current data on cannabis use should be a public health wake up call to government regulators, law makers, and certainly parents and adults, and all those who do not use marijuana in any form, to re-examine the drug, the potentially lethal drug, and re-consider regulation and rules for usage, and even the ban the use of cannabis where it may become necessary to do so. One cannabis expert said the following: “MARIJUANA IS ON TRACK TO BECOME AMERICA’S #1 ADDICTION, AND WASHINGTON (AND THE STATES) IS LOOKING THE OTHER WAY.” Yet another expert stated the following: “THE ADDICTION INDUSTRY HAS ENGINEERED A PRODUCT THAT OUT-ADDICTS THE CIGARETTE, THE DEADLIEST CONSUMER PRODUCT IN AMERICAN HISTORY!” More people now use marijuana every single day then smoke cigarettes every day. Almost 40% of all cannabis users are hooked, addicted, and our younger generation especially is being enrolled in the daily habit and use of marijuana before their brains are even fully developed. The drug can retard maturation of the brain or otherwise permanently damage this incredible organ of the human body for a lifetime. Marijuana is not the harmless plant the addiction industry has told us it is. It can be every bit as harmless as tobacco and the cigarette, the deadliest consumer product in American history. 3 Marijuana users argue it is not as harmful or addictive as cocaine. That may be so, but that is no justification for allowing the unregulated and unfettered use of a drug dangerous in and of itself. Nor is it, these users say, nearly as addictive as crack cocaine. Certainly, they say, it is not as addictive as heroin in terms of daily usage, and the use of pot/weed can not be compared to the disastrous, legal effects of the new drug fentanyl, a killer drug in its own right. This may all be true, but again, it can not begin to justify the use of a drug which is potentially inherently dangerous in and of itself. Marijuana users, scrambling for justification of use of the drug, claim that most Americans, virtually all, use drugs of some kind or another every day, such as with the use of caffeine in coffee, tea, and other products. Americans need that, pot justifiers say. Americans also need OVER THE COUNTER (OTC) drugs, such as aspirin, Advil, and even vitamins, just like the need to smoke pot. Americans use tobacco in some form, or drink alcohol in some form, virtually every day or on a regular basis, and they claim the recommendation that two glasses of wine each day may be good for cardiovascular health and issues can create a low form of addiction, even as they proclaim the so-called benefits of the use of medical marijuana. Pot users are determined to keep the use of this potent drug legal, so as to allow the usage of cannabis without criminal effects for recreational or medical use. The new reality is neither recreational nor medical use may be necessary, beneficial, or in any way justified. The bottom line, my fellow Americans, is that, in my opinion at least, marijuana should not be used in any form, even to alleviate pain, for the side effects, the after effects, like oxycodone, can last lifelong and with really negative effects. SAY NO TO POT! What do you think?