MARIJUANA ECSTASY

Marijuana is a mixture of the dried and shredded leaves, stems, seeds, and flowers of the cannabis sativa plant. The mixture can be green, brown, or gray.

A bunch of leaves seem harmless, right? But think again. Marijuana has a chemical in it called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, better known as “THC”. THC is the main psychoactive (i.e., mind altering) ingredient. In fact, marijuana’s strength or potency is related to the amount of THC it contains. The THC content of marijuana has been increasing since the 1970s. There are many slang terms for marijuana that vary from city to city and from neighborhood to neighborhood. Some common names are: “pot,” “grass,” “herb,” “weed,” “Mary Jane,” “reefer,” “skunk,” “boom,” “gangster,” “kif,” “chronic,” and “ganja.”

Marijuana is used in many ways. The most common method is smoking loose marijuana rolled into a cigarette called a “joint” or “nail.” Sometimes marijuana is smoked through a water pipe called a “bong.” Others smoke “blunts”—cigars hollowed out and filled with the drug. And some users brew it as tea or mix it with food.

People take marijuana when they feel depressed, lonely, sad and confused. I was in the midst of some people that were taking this drug. I asked them how it makes them feel; they said they take it as something that relaxes their nerves and stops them from worrying about their problems.  It gives them an ecstatic feeling, a feeling of happiness within that period of effect. To some, it makes them sleepy.

Marijuana is very addictive because during the period of taking it, it seems like your problems are over. But after you have woken up from the effects, you find out that nothing has changed. So you would like to take more because you want to continue to experience that ecstatic feeling that was keeping you relaxed.

 Marijuana can never take away our problems. You will always find out they are still there. It is not a way of solving whatever is bothering you neither can it give you the true happiness you are looking for.  So many of us have gone through heartbreaks, failures, abuse, financial breakdown and other issues, so we use stuffs that we feel will take away the pain and give us some sense of comfort. But I found out that instead of these things helping us to relax, they add to our problems by affecting our health. We have to derive happiness in knowing that God can solve all our problems if we trust Him to do it. There is nothing that is impossible for Him to do.