Marijuana Tax Stamps

The amygdala has several functions, most of which are involved with assigning emotional value.  With out this part of the brain we wouldn’t be more than a droid.  The amygdala is constantly monitoring our experience.  A large proportion of the marijuana “high” is created by the impact of THC on the amygdala.Marijuana turns the boring into fascination.  We start seeing the things most people have learned to ignore, suddenly noticing all 73 clouds floating high above.  Your senses are turned on.. taste buds erupt over your routine tv dinner.  Movies are seen for a 3rd time, as though never seen before.  Tests of driving skills reveal that people compensate by slowing down and being more careful.  Very different from drunk drivers, who tend to overestimate their skill and actually increase speeds. Once upon a time, in a place called the United States of America, the hemp plant was harvested and turned into paper. In fact, the Declaration of Independence was signed on hemp paper. Now thanks to medical research, we are just realizing that marijuana may have serious medical worth. In a study conducted by Jerry Kennard at healthcentral.com they found the active ingredient in marijuana, delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), to have anti-anxiety qualities. Participants in the study took thc pills and were exposed to a series of pictures. The pictures were meant to draw an emotion – either comforting, or threatening. The amygdale, a part of the brain that regulates emotions, was less affected by threatening images in the users of the thc pill than those exposed to the placebo. This may lead to breakthroughs in anti-anxiety pharmaceuticals.  It would be great to see a natural remedy for anxiety instead of the addictive pharmaceuticals on the market right now. Tobacco and pharmacy lobbyists in Washington don’t want hemp to be grown because they see it as a threat to their profitability. We need to realize that hemp makes the strongest rope, can be easily turned into an alternative fuel, and has medicinal value.

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