Alcohol, Tobacco, and Marijuana...

Alcohol kills.  Smoking kills. Marijuana makes you hungry.  Yet, the ladder is illegal.  Do the math? 

This just doesn't make any sense.  Have you ever heard of alcohol poisoning? Think about that for a second.  The reason they call it that is because you have drank too much "poison." Yes, alcohol is essentially poison.  A delicious poison at times, but it is in fact poison.  They even have a poison meter, so you know how much poison is in the liquid that you consume. It's called proofing.  If you drink something that is 80 proof, that means that the liquid is 60% water and 40% poison.  Somehow the government thinks that it is OK to start to legally and slowly poison yourself when you turn 21 years old.  God forbid if you ever start to poison yourself before that age, you could go to jail.  We all know that 20 year olds aren't responsible enough to slowly poison themselves, that's just crazy (sarcasm).

Back to my first point, alcohol kills.  Approximately 100,000 people die each year in the U.S. from alcohol.  This includes all alcohol related deaths from disease, accidents, and homicides.  Yet, you can still go to store and buy it every single day of your life.  Also, think about how they manufacture alcohol.  They let fruits and plants rot and ferment...yum!

Now lets talk about smoking.  A cigarette isn't just made from tobacco.  There are over 4000 chemical additives in your average cigarette. Except for Winston, they are supposedly just plain ol' tobacco.  Some of the ingredients the Government allows tobacco companies to add to their cancer sticks are;

• Acetone – found in nail polish remover
• Acetic Acid –  an ingredient in hair dye
• Ammonia – a common household cleaner
• Arsenic – used in rat poison
• Benzene – found in rubber cement
• Butane – used in lighter fluid
• Cadmium – active component in battery acid 
• Cyanide – a deadly poison
• Formaldehyde – embalming fluid
• Hexamine – found in barbecue lighter fluid
• Lead – used in batteries
• Napthalene – an ingredient in moth balls
• Methanol – a main component in rocket fuel
• Nicotine – used as insecticide
• Tar – material for paving roads
• Toluene - used to manufacture paint 

Don't you think it is absolutely ridiculous that the Government allows these additives or even worse, that THE MANUFACTURERS ADD THESE CHEMICALS!!!  There are over 440,000 smoking related deaths each year in the U.S.  PLUS there are about 8,600,000 people that live with smoking related diseases.  This is kind of sad, if anything should be illegal it should be cigarettes and the CEO's of these big tobacco companies should be thrown in jail.

Now let's talk about marijuana.  It's just a plant. It's not manufactured. It has no additives.  The chemical that makes you feel funny is called Delta-9 Tetrahydrocannabinol. Also known as THC, this chemical wears off.  Does not have any long lasting side effects and never leads to dying.  I used to be a regular pot smoker, and I kind of just grew out of it I guess. But look, I turned out OK.  I am not some kind of bad person because of it.  In fact, I probably smoked with several of you that read this blog, and trust me, I have stalked your FB page (like we all do) and you guys seemed to turn out OK too...Haha!  If Marijuana is ever legal, I am not going to start smoking it again, but I think there are millions of people that could benefit from it.  Whether it's used for pain, stress, disease, or recreation it needs to be legal for Americans to choose for themselves if they want to use it or grow it or buy it from the store.  There is a pill form of THC called Marinol that you can get a prescription for, but that, again is manufactured.  God knows whats actually in it.  And how stupid does the Government sound when they say, "You can do THC in a pill form but don't you ever do it naturally No smoking it, no eating it, no vaporizing it.  Just buy our pills"  Can you imagine if all of a sudden the Federal Government said, "Tomatoes are ILLEGAL, but you can go get a pill form from the Pharmacy for lots of $$ even though you can grow them in your yard."  Silly isn't it? 

Look, I am not writing this because I think drinking and smoking cigarettes are only for bad people.  I do both.  A few Yuenglings and a Marlboro Light or two is my idea of a good Saturday night.  What I am saying is, marijuana is a weed that grows in the woods and for some reason if you are caught with it in your pocket you go to jail.  JAIL, for a plant....that grows in the woods.  Jail...


Cheers!


K.A. Ball