US Gov: Mary Jane and Me

Ah. Of course, a millennial college student talking about marijuana. What are the odds? As for this blog, I'm going to stick to the approval of recreational Mary Jane around the nation.

There's one specific study in England that shows that kids between the ages ages 17-20 that have higher cognitive activity were more inclined to smoke marijuana. The study shows that the higher cognitive kids showed the trait of "openness to experience" (ProCon). The point is that the effects of marijuana could help a struggling researcher come up with the next big thing.

Another reason is if you look at ADHD medicine, and possible other medications, Adderall and vyvanse are about a hair away from being cocaine and meth. Marijuana, depending on the strain, has the same cognitive effects as the pills. Where it relaxes the brain and helps people like myself and our brain slow down. Where as the pills contribute to the lack of appetite and can keep you up all night, marijuana helps people enjoy foods more deeply and seamlessly fall asleep. Overall, the use of marijuana can be used as a formal remedy for many illnesses.

Lastly, marijuana will do two things for the government once it becomes legal. If you haven't paid attention to Colorado's economy in the last few years, the state has turned marijuana into a billion dollar industry....... just within a single state. Think about what an extra billion dollars per state could do for this country. And if you're not interested in the economy, marijuana can single handily destroy the use of hard drugs such as cocaine, meth, LSD, and heroin. Some people just want to escape reality in any form that they can get their hands on it seems like. Once marijuana is legal nation wide, it'll be so common among the streets that the prices for it will drop dramatically. A druggie, whom probably doesn't have very much money to begin with will be more than likely willing to spend more money on a cheaper drug like marijuana in certain amounts than those that are harmful and cost a lot more money.

In conclusion, many people were so focused on the fact that the government wouldn't be able to regulate the recreational use of marijuana which is why everyone kept ignoring the legalization of it. Well, there are now 26 states that have some legal form of using the plant. The plant is also known to help those that have many different types of medical conditions to ease pain and help retain happiness as well. The use of marijuana will even eliminate the use of harder drugs and thus faze out the cartels from smuggling things across our borders. Marijuana will become legal with due time.

Republicans vs. Polar Bears

The NY Times posted an article on January 9th, 2017 titled "Human-Driven Global Warming Is Biggest Threat to Polar Bears, Report Says" by Erica Goode. I picked this one because I've been watching a lot of wildlife shows lately and it deals with polar bears against the government. The article states that the overall theme going on in the population decline in polar bears is human based global warming. There was a pretty important bill to be voted on when Trump first took office to help with emission output. The article does not state the outcome, but judges Trump and the rest of the republicans on how against global warming they are. Trump did pull out of the Paris climate agreement though. The article goes on to state that even though in some areas there has shown decline in the population, that the overall percentage of polar bears has remained the same. These scientist and native Alaskans (article based in Alaska) are trying to make sure the climate stays under 2 degrees Celsius so that the ice caps remain for polar bears to be able to hunt for seals.

I agree with this article. I don't particularly know everything about global warming, but I do believe that the actions we take do affect our environment. I'm like most Texan's and enjoy hunting, but I believe there are a difference between hogs and deer, and those animals such as polar bears. I am also native american (Choctaw and Sioux Nation) so I do believe in respecting the animals, but also that they were put here to provide as such as the food chain suggests. As hogs and deer, their population is stable enough for people to hunt to provide food for. As for polar bears, there is no need to hunt these animals as you do not need to make their species suffer as they have about 75% less population than that of deer and hogs. As the article suggest, it would be nice if Trump could show more initiative to preserving the animals that have been here long before we had gas powered cars. I for one will be investing in a electric car in the future to help preserve the polar bear and other species that need a little help from us humans. Overall, I agree with the article and think they are on the right path to the end goal of saving the planet from our boneheaded ways.