{"id":82,"date":"2015-07-14T16:58:26","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T21:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/?p=82"},"modified":"2015-07-16T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T17:32:28","slug":"cant-have-candy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dwrl.utexas.edu\/rhes306\/2015\/07\/14\/cant-have-candy\/","title":{"rendered":"Cant Have Candy!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, my name is Shayla Myers and I\u2019m from Dallas TX! I have two older brothers, one who came to UT himself, and another who I\u2019ll talk to about later. So to be quite frank with you \u00a0I have personally smoked marijuana. Young, and na\u00efve, I fell under the influence of my surrounding peers, only to get up and regret it till this day. However, unlike me, most are still suppressed by this green, emotionless foliage.<\/p>\n

What is it about marijuana that people feel the need to claim over? Is it the so called high? Is it the feeling of being cool? Well any one of them can tell you their own reasoning, but can anyone explain the truth?<\/p>\n

As humans, we tend to take advantage of what’s handed to us. Ever heard the phrase\u00a0“…All good things\u00a0must come to an end”, a classic idiom\u00a0from American idioms? Well, that’s an example of this circumstance. What was\u00a0meant to heal and cease pain, has now been downed upon because of humanity’s own demand for personal gain.<\/p>\n

In this hyperlink, you can see some quite interesting facts of\u00a0the history of marijuana. http:\/\/medicalmarijuana.procon.org\/view.timeline.php?timelineID=000026#2900-bc-1599-ad<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Stealing-Candy-Copy\"<\/a>So, as biased as I may seem, I still have mixed feelings towards the use of marijuana. While I believe its usage can be taken advantage of, I still don’t want it to be illegal. You can\u2019t just make someone not do something. It’s like telling a child they can’t have candy. All their going to do is want it more. Well, at least I know I would…<\/p>\n

When It comes to putting things into our body, shouldnt it just be us, the people, who decides what goes into it? Yeah, yeah, maybe the government is trying to protect our health, but if they were really trying, they would have shut down half of these fast food restaurants. So maybe it\u2019s just to protect America\u2019s reputation. We are pretty much a disliked country to many, and legalizing marijuana would just add to the \u201cWhy We Despise America\u201d \u00a0list, and we don\u2019t want that.\"Kanye-West-Shaking-Head-No\"<\/a>I suppose now would be a good time to bring up my other brother. He is a 34 year old man who sadly has cancer and has struggled with it for many years now. He has been on his death bed twice and through those times I thought I was going to lose him\u2026 However, today he \u00a0is doing rather fine, and when he\u2019s not, he can get medical marijuana prescribed to him.<\/p>\n

Now to all of you who are feeling bad for my brother or just glad he gets to use medical marijuana, I\u2019m going to stop you there. This is where I go back to my other conflicting point of view. My brother is an example of \u00a0how people take advantage of a health supplement. He plays his cancer card and gets to smoke it whenever he feels the need.<\/p>\n

\"child-stealing3_s300x300\"<\/a>If I’m being totally honest, I believe it wasn’t the cancer that changed his life for worse, but instead the marijuana. If I could take it away from him, I would. However, like I said earlier, you can\u2019t just tell someone they can\u2019t do something. All they are going to do is want it more\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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