Marijuana – Battle Over Legalization, Safety, And Its Usefulness Never Ends

It is truly amazing what one will read about marijuana these days, whether we are talking about medical or recreational use. Depending on who you are talking to, it is either the worst plant God ever made or the best. However, today, there is artificial marijuana, genetically engineered to be beyond super strong. I hear you can even vape pure THC. Remembering from modern medicine, which I do not wholeheartedly support, to say the least, the dose makes the poison. How much marijuana at what age, and at what concentration, matters. Very high-potency THC:

• Increases risk of paranoia and acute psychosis in susceptible individuals
• Is associated with higher rates of cannabis use disorder
• Is more destabilizing in adolescents

Though below I will share the almost endless benefits of marijuana use, suddenly, warnings about Cannabis are everywhere. Whatever one thinks about marijuana, one of the great policy errors of modern civilization was to criminalize it rather than address it as a public health matter. The criminalization model fueled black markets, mass incarceration, and social fragmentation while doing little to reduce use or harm.

By contrast, countries like Portugal shifted drug possession from a criminal offense to an administrative health issue in 2001, redirecting users toward treatment, counseling, and social support instead of prison. The result was not societal collapse but reductions in overdose deaths, HIV transmission, and drug-related incarceration. Substance use can be problematic, even destructive—but when treated primarily as a crime, the damage often spreads beyond the user and into the structure of society itself.

The Epoch Times reported that young people are being admitted to emergency rooms for a severe vomiting disorder linked to cannabis use. The disorder, known as cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (CHS), surged by more than 650 percent between 2016 and 2022, according to a study. “It is usually seen in heavy, chronic marijuana users.” Remember again, the dose makes the poison, which does not usually apply to natural substances, but it seems to apply to marijuana.

Meanwhile, would you believe the news today, a recent study suggests that its use could increase brain volume and cognitive fitness. Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus analyzed cannabis usage, brain scans, and cognitive test results for more than 26,000 adults between the ages of 40 and 77, using data from the UK Biobank.

The study found that cannabis users — particularly those who reported moderate lifetime usage — showed larger volumes in several brain regions.

But some have only bad news about marijuana, so it makes sense to be cautious, as you should be with any drug be it natural or pharmaceutical.

Recently, researchers reported that severe mental illness has spiked in young people in Canada alongside access to high-potency Cannabis. Alex Berneson writes, “The runaway legalization of Cannabis risked the mental health of teens and young adults, I wrote. And cannabis advocates and companies had spent a generation pretending the drug was a medicine, not a recreational intoxicant. That marketing trick encouraged its use most dangerously, for conditions like anxiety and depression, by people already at high risk of mental illness.”

The Extremely Positive Side to Medical and Even Recreational Marijuana

Marijuana remains one of humanity’s oldest and most misunderstood medicines. Long before prohibition, physicians prescribed Cannabis for pain, inflammation, and insomnia, recognizing its unique ability to restore balance through the body’s endocannabinoid system. Modern research confirms those properties—anxiolytic, anti-seizure, anti-inflammatory, and even anti-tumor—yet the same governments that license far deadlier pharmaceuticals still treat the plant as a threat.

It is not danger that keeps Cannabis under siege; it is the fear of a medicine that ordinary people can grow for themselves, outside the reach of prescription and profit. It is a little hard to believe Berneson reduces all of this to a marketing trick.

The unresolved “safety” debate hides a deeper question: who controls healing? Corporate Cannabis now mirrors Big Pharma’s cartel—engineered strains, excessive THC, and monopoly licensing—while the plant in its natural form remains one of nature’s gentlest remedies. Used respectfully, it eases pain and anxiety without the brutal cost of opiates or alcohol; abused, it can dull drive and unbalance youth. In the end, marijuana’s battle is symbolic of all modern medicine: the conflict between natural autonomy and industrial ownership of the body and mind.

In 1991, 44 percent of oncologists surveyed said they had already recommended Cannabis to their patients, and 56 percent said that marijuana should be legally prescribable. As early as 1975, the New England Journal of Medicine had reported that, “THC is an effective antiemetic for patients receiving cancer chemotherapy.”

The American Federal Government under Trump is looking at legalization, but not complete legalization; though there are those dead set against any change. Marijuana has been classified under federal law as a Schedule I drug (equated with substances like heroin with “no accepted medical use”) since the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 — even as most states have moved toward medical or recreational legalization. Trump’s move would be the most significant change in federal cannabis policy in decades, but it would be a policy shift rather than a full legalization.

It is absolutely ridiculous to arrest or put anyone in jail, as America has done to hundreds of thousands of people over many decades, and not arrest one person for the much more dangerous drugs and vaccines that come out of Big Pharma. They cannot even arrest the rich and powerful who played around with young girls under the umbrella of Epstein and his island. They cannot even arrest anyone in America for treason, as Russia Gate shows, or jail the monsters in Congress and the Senate for promoting war and death in many countries.

Though marijuana is one of the safest drugs, we do have to concede that it is still a drug, meaning some people will run into problems with its use, especially with its overuse and with the newer, more concentrated forms.

Admittedly, it is hard not to overuse it because it can be very pleasant and thus has addictive powers. However, singling out marijuana’s legal status when just about everything you find in a pharmacy is more dangerous seems rather ludicrous. Compare medical and recreational marijuana to mRNA injections and see what you come up with.

Marijuana offers a change of consciousness, and it is one of the best things about it. One can use this slight change in any way, meaning creative people know how to use it creatively. It also allows one to step out of life and one’s repetitive patterns and see things differently.

However, marijuana has been known to save babies’ lives. It is a natural form of chemotherapy, and some see it as a cure for cancer. It helps lower blood pressure. It helps diminish suffering from colds and flu. It helps the body deal with radiation exposure. Is a valuable pediatric medicine. Yet I do not smoke anymore, my body does not like it, though it never did anything but good for my mind, emotions, and spirit.

Researchers from the Aarhus University Hospital in Denmark have found that despite claims by pot advocates, the drug is just as addictive as any other drug. But to be fair to the downside of marijuana use today, “We’re now counting 37 cannabis-related diagnoses a day,” said Dr. Roneet Lev, an addiction medicine doctor at Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego, according to the New York Post. “It’s been steadily increasing over the years. When I started in the 1990s, there was no such thing. Now, I see one to two cases per shift. The most common symptom is psychosis.” Lev said. Lev said users believe what they are told. “The whole world is telling them it’s safe,” Lev said. “People are in unbelievable denial.”

Some of what Dr. Lev said might be true, but she has supported COVID-19 vaccination, including mRNA vaccines, during the pandemic. She publicly advocated for vaccination as part of a broader public health strategy to reduce severe disease and protect healthcare systems. Now, one has to wonder who is really in denial?

Medical Marijuana Saves Baby’s Life

In 2011 ABC News reported:

Doctors said two-year-old Cash Hyde would likely die after they found a stage 4 brain tumor surrounding his optic nerve just a year ago this week. And he nearly did. After being subjected to seven different chemotherapy drugs, the little boy from Missoula, Montana suffered septic shock, a stroke and pulmonary hemorrhaging.

Cash was so sick he went 40 days without eating. His organs were threatening to shut down. His father, Mike Hyde, intervened, slipping cannabis oil into his son’s feeding tube. Cash, now three, made a miraculous recovery at Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City, but his father’s bold action—taken behind the doctors’ backs—has raised serious questions about a parent’s role in medical treatment.

He was given the highest possible doses of chemotherapy for two months. He lost his appetite and threw up eight to 10 times a day. “When he started the chemo, he was so sick,” said Hyde. “For the first six weeks, he was blind. But his tumor was shrinking… It’s the nastiest thing to see someone you love go through this.”

By September, Cash had not been eating for 40 days. “He was suffering terribly, and the doctors said it was the best they could do for him,” said Hyde, who asked doctors to stop the chemotherapy drugs. Instead, Hyde boiled up marijuana he had purchased in Montana with olive oil and measured 3 mm doses that he poured into his son’s G-tube twice a day. “Not only was it helpful, but it was a godsend. In two weeks, he was weaned of all the nausea drugs, and he was eating again and sitting up and laughing,” according to Hyde, who said doctors called his son’s recovery “a miracle.”

Conclusion

I mention to all late-stage cancer patients to think about using THC oil for two reasons. One, it is a natural form of chemotherapy, and second, it does offer pain relief. In Canada, they would prefer to pull the plug on your life and offer death by chemical injection, which can be quite nasty. Whether it helps recover a person from cancer or eases their way into the afterlife, it is hard to go wrong with medical marijuana at this stage of life and disease.

Ron Paul called the war on drugs “un-American,” believing we should all be able to think for ourselves or alter our consciousness if we want. Though marijuana is associated with alternative lifestyles, many of the straightest people in the country smoke marijuana, including scientists, writers, politicians, and even police officers.