My Last Blog.

            Why was I writing this blog? It was a class assignment, and for a blog choice, I chose Medical Marijuana as my topic. I had done the same topic for my other class paper and got to know some interesting things on medical marijuana. The only thing I didn’t know now about marijuana was that in less than a year Colorado would legalize marijuana and it’s not a surprise to people anymore that people smoke marijuana. From this time now, I don’t think that I will be continuing my posts, and this will be my final one.

            While writing this blog I was able to not only educate myself on medical marijuana but I was also able to see how marijuana is used around the whole world, and not just the United States. I learned many different techniques on how to become a good blogger. I’ve always seen other blogs and stumbled upon them occasionally on the Internet, but I never would’ve thought running a blog would be sort of challenging. At first, I was confused and had to get the hang of it, but after messing around with Blogger, I was able to create my own blog, which I never thought would’ve looked as professional.

            One thing that I found interesting was the links that I was able to tag the original URL webpage, so that whenever anybody is on my page, they can look directly at what I was referencing.  Although this is my last blog, I will still know how to write a blog with a lot of readability. As a class we were taught many things, such as how to give our blog more readability – Short paragraphs, easy to read font, pictures, free flowing, etc. Although this blog took a lot of time, it taught me how to get away from writing miserable, English essays. Working on this blog was more fun than typical English essays because there was more of a conversational feel when writing blogs and it gave students the ability to be more creative with their writing skills. Before writing this blog, I was used to writing papers on essay topics for different classes, but now my teacher, Ms. Wong, was able to teach the class and I how to write a blog, which is a completely different style of writing. 

            As my final blog post I want to share some of my opinions on my blog topic – medicinal marijuana. I think that medicinal marijuana is a lot safer than smoking cigarettes, which are legal. Cigarette smoking has caused many deaths over the years, while marijuana has been used medicinally and there has never been a recorded death due to the overdose on marijuana. The only reason medicinal marijuana is hard to legalize is because of the negative short and long-term side effects. Although marijuana’s legality in the United States should stay the way it is, there are still some other laws that could be adjusted.

Marijuana Addictiveness

           Finishing up my second year of college at San Francisco State University has been one of the best times of my life, but one thing that you see too much is the abuse of certain substances, such as alcohol and marijuana. It comes as no surprise that some college kids like to experiment with different things as they’re in college because of the freedom that they have. I went to Venice High School for four years and was the first time I’ve seen friends try it. Although I came to realize in college is that kids are more mature than people think when it comes to drugs, but after some questioning, it all depends on the individual whether or not someone can “Handle Drugs”. What I mean by “Handle Drugs” is being smart when handling with drugs/marijuana. I don’t mean to take a bunch of drugs to see who can handle the most, which is actually the complete opposite.

            Recently I met this girl and this guy. The guy (Anonymous name – Joe) and the Girl (Anonymous name – Kate), this year in college and I was able to ask them a few questions regarding their past/present experiences while using marijuana. Joe, at this point in time, has seen is health lower as he continued to smoke marijuana throughout this year. As a good friend of mine now, he has quit smoking marijuana close to the years wrap up. But before my friend Joe stopped smoking marijuana, he kept trying to quit smoking, but Joe kept reverting back to smoking marijuana recreationally. He explained to me the most stressful part about quitting smoking marijuana – the withdrawals of marijuana. The withdrawals of marijuana consist of the opposite affects of marijuana because after using a drug for such a long time, your body starts to adjust to the drugs affects. Joe had a hard time quitting throughout the semester, but has realized the consequences, admitted that he was had a fun time while it was there, but he started thinking about his health and now is living a healthy life-style. Since he has tried to quit before, Joe has told me that the withdrawals from marijuana have been a process to handle, like lack of hunger, lack of sleep, changes in mood, etc. Although Joe was able to experiment with marijuana for a while, his health became more of a concern, which prompted him to quit the abuse of marijuana.

            Kate has stayed away from marijuana since she was in High School and has come to college only trying marijuana twice throughout her college life. She had told me that she doesn’t care about smoking marijuana after an incident in High School, which scarred her from smoking marijuana again. Kate also claims that she doesn’t have an addictive personality, which could also explain why she didn’t need marijuana as much as Joe did. Kate, when she smoked marijuana before, said that she felt fine and that nothing frightened her. But after an incident when smoking marijuana, which she would rather leave a secret, she felt paranoid from then on smoking marijuana.

            Because marijuana has such addictive properties, Joe wasn’t able to let marijuana go that easy, but compared to Kate, she changed her views on marijuana because of a life changing experience, I’m guessing. The abuse of marijuana has caused many people to become addicted to a drug, which should be used for medicinal purposes. Even though marijuana may be hard to quit smoking, some find marijuana less amusing than others.