People around the world have used cannabis to help them seek remedy from a wide range of ailments. This includes stories of people seeing success with everything from depression and PTSD to pain, addiction, and more.
The versatility of cannabis to help so many people who are suffering from various difficulties has been nothing short of amazing.
Now, the government is looking to pass severe restrictions that would put at least a 10 percent cap on THC for medical cannabis, for those under 21. They also want to impose restrictions on the amount of THC that can be included in edibles as well.
This is foolish, unjustified, and harmful for a number of reasons.
The most pressing is that whether or not a cannabis product has 10 percent THC or 80 percent THC, should not be justification to turning that individual into a criminal and potentially ruining their lives in a myriad of ways. Do we really want to be considering medicinal cannabis patients criminals simply because their THC level was too high that they voluntarily decided to put into their body? I own my own body, just as you own yours, it is not property of the government and so how can the government have a higher authority over that body in telling me what I cannot put into it? People respond differently to cannabis depending on the product they are taking, how they are taking it, the amount that they are taking, and imposing these sort of restrictions is going to only unnecessarily restrict the healing potential and the freedom of researchers to further investigate the possible benefits as well that might be associated with higher amounts of THC.
To add insult to injury these rules are being passed by people who arguably know next to nothing about what they are trying to govern--cannabis and people's personal healing experiences with cannabis. Florida is one state that has among the highest prison population in the country, they have already caged too many people over cannabis and they still haven't legalized, nor have they decriminalized the market in any significant sense.
Though I would say that they haven't decriminalized in a significant way yet, only reducing restrictions for certain small possession etc, there are several cities around Florida that have brought forth decriminalization and it seems to be a growing trend in the region.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Florida have previously shown their interest for legalization or a decriminalization effort, showing that many people are simply tired of the same war on drugs that fails to achieve any respectable objective.
