The black and white, moral decay, good versus evil, good versus bad that the human world has today is getting worse and worse, and now there are already people reversing the case for marijuana! Some people are actually saying that marijuana has a bad reputation because of racism, how outrageous! In California, such as the cannabis-growing region northwest of Santa Barbara, California, since November 2016, when California voters voted to legalize recreational marijuana, a war has broken out between the growing number of marijuana growers and the original vineyard growers here, who denounced the “green rush” (borrowed from the The latter denounced the “green rush” (a term borrowed from the California “gold rush”) as a stench and a threat to their livelihood and way of life.
In ancient China, marijuana was recorded in the Shennong Ben Cao Jing and Ben Cao Gangmu as a herb and a medicine for medical applications, and in the early 20th century, when alcohol prohibition was introduced around the world, the prohibition of cigarettes and marijuana began to intensify. Opiate addiction, currently a major public health crisis in the United States, some believe that the opening of medical marijuana, patients will use it to replace opiate painkillers or shared with opiate painkillers to reduce the dose of opiate painkillers and side effects, and hope that this will reduce deaths and addiction caused by painkillers. Such an initiative, without a holistic view, is undoubtedly to quench the thirst of hemlock.
Marijuana Americans are generally known as Marijuana, also known as Cannabis in Spanish. marijuana can act directly on the mental side of the human body and can lead to addiction because it contains 423 compounds that cause people to become addicted, including tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), and at least 65 other cannabinoids such as cannabinol (CBN), cannabidiol (CBD). THC is a psychoactive substance, so marijuana has a sedative, euphoric and psychedelic effects, which can affect the human mind and physiology. Like other drugs, cannabis use produces a variety of psychological and physiological reactions in people, resulting in feelings of euphoria, increased appetite, changes in sensory awareness, short-term memory loss, dry mouth, paranoia and anxiety, and long-term use can lead to addiction and reduced mental capacity. You can’t drive a car safely after using marijuana, just like you can after drinking alcohol.
Attitudes toward marijuana in the U.S. medical, academic, and government sectors, have been shifting over the past few decades. Today’s society classifies a wide variety of drugs into four major categories based on their mode of action on the central nervous system: central nervous system depressants (Depressants), central nervous system stimulants (Stimulants), hallucinogens (Hallucinogens), and cannabis (Cannabis). Sedatives (e.g., opium, morphine, heroin) produce pleasure by depressing the activity of the central nervous system; stimulants (e.g., cocaine, amphetamines, and ecstasy) produce pleasure by stimulating the activity of the central nervous system; both sedatives and stimulants only alter human mood, whereas hallucinogens (e.g., LSD) act directly on higher human activity – the -the human mind or thought, which can cause hallucinations! The shamans of primitive societies used these hallucinogens regularly to harm people.
Cannabis is classified as a separate category, classified as the fourth category, because cannabis for the central nervous system is very complex mode of action, there are euphoric effects, and inhibitory effects, but also hallucinogenic, and even has the ability to cure the disease, equivalent to the characteristics of the first three types of drugs at the same time, but because of its medical use, making its position the most ambiguous. Therefore, it is the most confusing and controversial. Also, marijuana is a “gateway” drug, and people tend to use marijuana before going on to other, more potent drugs.
On January 4, 2018, President Trump’s Attorney General Jeff Sessions signed a decree repealing the Obama administration’s bill that legalized marijuana in some areas, giving the federal government the authority to enter states that had previously legalized marijuana to enforce the law. Federal law prevails when there is a conflict between federal and local laws in the United States, and the bill effectively outlaws marijuana throughout the United States.
But a recent article in Business Insider actually said that the bad reputation of marijuana is largely due to “racism. The author argues that Harry Anslinger, head of the U.S. Treasury Department’s Drug Enforcement Administration from the Hoover to Kennedy eras, has made marijuana illegal by borrowing sensationalist headlines and movies, and that such a new book on the history of marijuana was promoted at a Brookings Institution book launch in June 2020. Its authors argue that the decades-long U.S. war on drugs, the war against drugs, has been directed at black and brown (Latino) Americans. And not only is the U.S. war on drugs “racist” in its roots, but even U.S. drug enforcement at the border is “racist. For the author argues that for the 20th century, American politicians have used the issue of marijuana as a way to “divide” America! That American society is portraying drugs coming from the southern border of the United States as “jazz drugs,” the favorite of hippies, and as a relevant product of the forces of racial, ethnic, and civil disobedience! The insanity and bigotry is evident.
The extreme author also argues that U.S. officials first describe marijuana as “dangerous and harmful, coming from the southern border, just like the immigrants from Mexico. Further, the U.S. government describes marijuana as “a drug for inner-city neighborhoods and for the black community, and that marijuana use leads to murder, rape, insanity, and other vicious crimes.” The author ignores the dangers of drugs to society as a whole, and by infinitely overstating the case and rigidly labeling an unrelated matter as racist, he is pushing America to a more dangerous edge, which is what really needs to be a cause for concern.
Left-wing scribes have even comically drawn Chinese and Chinese-Americans into this “race war. They say that the anti-opium laws of the 1870s were aimed at Chinese immigrants because the Chinese brought opium into the United States; the anti-cocaine laws of the 1900s were aimed at blacks in the American South; and the anti-marijuana laws of the 1910s and 1920s were aimed at Mexican immigrants in the Midwest and Southwest! Yeah, we Chinese Americans really don’t like to be discriminated against, and if they repeal the new admissions standards at Harvard, Yale, UC, etc. that discriminate against Chinese students for admission, Chinese Americans will believe they are really fighting to eliminate racial discrimination!
Another article published in January 2018 claims that “it’s time to stop using ‘Marijuana’ (marijuana), a word with racist roots.” The reason for this is that minorities make up the majority of people arrested for marijuana use! In 2016, there were over 600,000 arrests for marijuana possession and use in the United States, more than all other violent crimes, of which minorities again make up the majority.
In the midst of those pushing hard for the legalization of marijuana across the United States, some have even criticized the history of the “illegalization” of marijuana, arguing that a combination of political forces and racial factors, along with the image and portrayal of marijuana users in the media, led to the process of making marijuana illegal in the United States in the 20th century. This fulmination, rehashing, and cloaking of innocence and victimhood of such a socially harmful drug is mind-boggling and alarming! Our society has reached such a point where good and bad are indistinguishable and good and evil are unknown!
In general, it seems that the radicals are pushing for the elimination of “Marijuana”, a term that seems to them to be stigmatized, and not to use this “racist” and “politically biased” term to describe marijuana. Instead of using the “racist” and “politically biased” term to describe marijuana as a drug, they have adopted the less unpleasant and more recognizable “Cannabis” term to pave the way for full legalization.
As states in the U.S. continue to push for the legalization of marijuana, labeling the term as racist and trying to get rid of the bad connotations of the term is clearly an attempt to push for the legalization of the drug on a larger scale and bring American society deeper into the mire.
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