Analysis: It's Ok To Smoke Weed

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It’s OK to Smoke Weed “A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don’t find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.” - Sebastian Marincolo (Goodreads). Marijuana could be considered one of the most controversial drugs of the past century. There seems to be inherent benefits and obvious flaws to what a high brings to the human body. Because of this unclear risk/reward potential of ‘lighting up’ the US Government has outlawed the drug. Furthermore many have criminalized the seemingly harmless act of smoking reefer; a bias that has been scorned by many artists in popular music for the upwards of 80 years. As far back as the 1920s to as contemporary as turning on your Pandora Radio, musicians have been trying to protest in song that: It’s …show more content…

This reggae song debuted in 1975 and was an open call to the government to make pot legal. In many ways Sean Paul’s We Be Burnin (Legalize It) is a similar protest to the legalization of marijuana. Both songs use the approach of arguing the benefits of smoking pot to protest its legalization. Tosh’s song explains how weed, pot, ganja, etc. can be used as a benefit to the human body. “It’s good for asthma, good for the flu, good for tuberculosis even numara trombrosis go to,” is one stanza from Tosh’s song. Sean Paul’s song explains how herb is healing the nation. He goes on to further explain how selling weed is giving him money that he otherwise wouldn’t have had that he can put towards an education. The logical argument that weed is doing good things for them both so it can do good things for you is a powerful one. So powerful and scary that both songs were censored in some way by higher

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