Pot Power – The Wonder of Weed

Pot Speaks for Itself, Man

The Power of Pot

Marijuana once thought of as a cure for many ailments in the United States, was legal to smoke by anybody over eighteen just 72 years ago.  My eighty eight year old uncle remembers it well.  He was a smoker.  He’s still alive to talk about it.

Unfortunately, ten years prior to the marijuana tax act of 1937, Pierre DuPont had invented a cheaper material for clothes that didn’t last as long as hemp.  A friend of his, William R. Hearst, was fully invested in tree pulping as opposed to hemp paper.  So between them they devised a solution to run the competition out of town, so to speak.

A cute little movement and fairly well produced movie (for the times) called Refer Madness was their solution.  And it eventually worked.  The Hearst publishing empire put so much propaganda on the street and created so much pressure on the fragile brainpans of society at the time that marijuana was eventually pulled from the doctor’s shelves and put into the evidence vaults.   Black jazz musicians were put up as the boogie men for this campaign and white women were the predestined damsels in distress.  The campaign launched to kill the evil weed was a partial success.  The rest is history.

Today marijuana continues to hold its reputation of many years ago, for the aficionados as well as the sheeple.  Even though the laws changed, nobody’s mind really changed with them.  Marijuana is still a drug of choice for a majority of folks and a scary evil weed for the remaining uninitiated few.

Now modern growing capabilities have reached literal scientific caliber and the varieties and effects of different marijuana strains make up a thousand spinning Lazy Susan’s full of choices.  Growers can utilize a seed stock of tens of thousands of different strains from both sides of the cannabis family, sativa and indica.

Sativa is renown for its spacey euphoric mental highs that make working a breeze and is the preferred side of the cannabis family for many artists, creative types and businessmen who have to perform.  Then there are the indica strains, more suited to the stoner movie generation born from Spiccolli’s first pizza order.

Indica, a hearty smaller plant, is known as the sleep inducer, pain killer, couch potato cooking, tooth numbing stoner buzz of yester year’s fried egg-brain propaganda sect.   Strains crossing both sativa and indica, which can have you pain free painting chapel ceilings in no time, are also part of the new growing community.

Why is it so Good?  Cannabinoids, the active component in marijuana, also happens to be one of the primary compounds for human health.  The body uses cannabinoids for a large variety of necessary body functions.  Thus the positive effects of bombarding the body with more, much like antioxidants and micro electro impulses have a positive effect on the blood.

And it’s no wonder, now-a-days there are strains to stop pain, create appetite, settle gastronomic disorders, relax muscles, reduce anxiety, help glaucoma, counter chemo, make you think, make you eat, make you horny, make you happy, and most of all, make you stop believing the bullshit about marijuana being bad for you.  All that and it’s non-toxic too…now if there was only a way to avoid the one retched side effect, the hot lunged bong cough.

Wait a minute…marijuana becomes up to eight times more potent when lightly braised over an even heat, or cured correctly.  So you don’t have to smoke pot and get the silly cough, you can eat pot, or drink pot tea and get even higher.  There, no more problems with marijuana other than the corporate cops we call The Feds driving the price up with prohibition and making prison a growth business.