What’s done is done

by Jacob Robbins III

Orlando is bringing a new bill to council with making anything less than 20 grams which is about two-thirds of an ounce a city violation and a $50 fine for first time offenders.

With this being said, medical marijuana has been getting decriminalize in most states so why is Governor Rick Scott holding out.

There are a lot of kids in prison for less than an ounce and know we are deciding that 20grams of marijuana is now just a small variable.

As the final vote is coming up on May 9^th it is good to hear the opposing side as well as people with the legalization of marijuana.

Some of the council was for the legalization Samuel Ings "People need to know and understand that this is making it easier for criminals to use marijuana, with less criminal charges and punishment," Ings said.

Most people have lost their chances at an education because they had a little pot, a few years back in 2010 there was a popular trend of kids in high school getting charged for intent to sell, and possession of a narcotic. This ruined chances of some of the kids from getting an education, not saying that all the kids had good intentions for the marijuana.

Legalization of marijuana has been a hot topic, due to the fact that there has been a lot of drug bust. Just last month in Orlando, Fl there was a home invasion where the cops were able to confiscate $100,000 worth of marijuana and more than that in cash.

This was a topic of choice back in 2012, when they first started legalizing marijuana. When this occurred you heard mostly negative things about marijuana but on social media things got twisted around. Since social media works on repost if someone was to share false news, some people share news feeds without reading the full article.

Marijuana has more positive factors then it does negative, in Colorado which was the first state to legalize marijuana they had an increase in state money, and lower the crime rate to under 5%.

The sunshine state has been a tourist state for a long time, what better way to attract more travelers than by opening up a medical marijuana stand.

This can also put some of the drug dealers out of business making it a little easier for the cops to focus on more major crimes and helping the citzens.

"I see this initiative as one step in ending the war on drugs, and thus I support it," said Lisa Tillmann, an activist and Rollins College professor.          

The legalization of Marijuana can help so many of those who have medical issues. Medical issues like glaucoma, Glaucoma is an eye condition in which the optic nerve becomes damaged over time, reducing side vision. It sometimes leads to blindness. Having glaucoma means your IOP levels are low and studies have been found that smoking marijuana helped raise their IOP level.

This short period of time is a major drawback for the use of marijuana as a glaucoma treatment. 

Because glaucoma needs to be treated 24 hours a day, you would need to smoke marijuana six to eight times a day around the clock to receive the benefit of a consistently lowered IOP. Because of marijuana's mood-altering effect, smoking so much of it daily would leave you too impaired to drive, operate equipment or function at the peak of your mental ability.

When a person smokes marijuana, THC quickly passes from the lungs into the bloodstream. The blood carries the chemical to the brain and other organs throughout the body. The body absorbs THC more slowly when the person eats or drinks it. In that case, the user generally feels the effects after 30 minutes to 1 hour. THC acts on specific brain cell receptors that ordinarily react to natural THC-like chemicals in the brain. These natural chemicals play a role in normal brain development and function.