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<\/p>\nMy name is Valerie Reyna, I grew up in Dallas; more specifically in the Pleasant Grove area. The neighborhood that I grew up in, it was not strange to see gang members hanging out on the corner of my street and it really wasn\u2019t strange to see people abusing the substance that is marijuana.<\/p>\n
In my home we grew up with the mentality that \u201cdrugs are bad\u201d \u201cIf you do drugs, you\u2019ll end up just like them, and do you want that? NO!\u201d \u00a0I was always the type of person that I would do what I wanted to do, I wasn\u2019t easily peer pressured, and frankly I didn\u2019t really care what everybody else did \u201cto be cool\u201d.\u00a0 I mention this because, even though I was surrounded by all of this usage of marijuana, I never let it affect me and I never let it alter my parents\u2019 words, because frankly, I did not want to end up \u201clike them\u201d.<\/p>\n
Growing up I never really heard of medical marijuana, all I knew, was that it was a drug.\u00a0 As I became older I became aware of all the different ways it could be taken and all the different reasons why it is taken.\u00a0 I have heard and read from both sides on why it should be legalized and why it shouldn\u2019t.\u00a0 Frankly, using weed is no more dangerous or harmful to the body then alcohol is.\u00a0 Marijuana has actually been shown to improve certain pains and aches while, alcohol is used for really nothing.<\/p>\n
Amy Nordrum from The International Business Times \u00a0states, “In some ways, such an arrangement makes a lot of sense — liquor control agencies have decades of experience maintaining tightfisted control over a liquid drug that causes far more deaths per year than marijuana. Many of the public health goals for both marijuana and alcohol are the same — limit the amount that drivers have in their systems, for example, and keep it out of reach of minors. And, of course, the revenue that states stand to collect from hefty taxes on these products is substantial.”<\/p>\n
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Many people that do use medical marijuana have shown improvement in pains and aches, as stated before, I say if it helps you, go for it!\u00a0 However, there is a thin line between using it as a pain killer and abusing the substance.\u00a0 The only way to control those who cannot control themselves is to keep it illegal.\u00a0 The only way that somebody could use it legally is by a prescription from a doctor.\u00a0 My intake on this particular issue as one can see is not very passionate. \u00a0If it is legalized or if it isn’t it won’t really affect me personally. This particular issue I see it as, do what you want, if you decide to use it illegally you\u2019ll do jail time.\u00a0 If you truly need it for medical purposes then you\u2019ll go through the right steps to get it prescribed by doctor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My name is Valerie Reyna, I grew up in Dallas; more specifically in the Pleasant Grove area. The neighborhood that I grew up in, it was not strange to see gang members hanging out on the corner of my street … Continue reading