lexxlizOpinion
As a medical marijuana patient, I find it insulting to think of weed as a recreational drug. It undermines my medicine and how I choose to treat my illnesses.
Recreational marijuana is referred to as using marijuana without any medical justification.
Medical weed tends to have more CBD, while recreational weed will have more THC. The marijuana will interact with your endocannabinoid system to regulate and balance your body’s alignments and symptoms, whether it’s higher in CBD or THC.
Recreational marijuana was coined by the government to reason with the claim as to why marijuana is schedule 1 drug. As a schedule 1 drug, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) claims that marijuana has zero medicinal benefits and is highly addictive. If you took the time to research scientific studies done on marijuana, almost every study can prove these theories wrong and yet the federal government and DEA still stand by their reasoning to label marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug, ignoring scientific evidence.
Even if you decide to smoke weed before you go out, or if you are hanging with friends and are smoking weed, “recreationally,” cannabis is still going to provide something for you. Maybe it relaxes you because you’re stressed out about external factors in your life and are unable to live in the moment and enjoy being with your friends. Or maybe you’re like me and have social anxiety and need a couple of puffs to get yourself out of your head. Getting you high is not the only objective of the plant you are consuming.
No matter what type of weed you are smoking, recreational or medicinal, you’re going to receive medicinal effects of the weed. Unless your “recreational” weed is from the illegal black market, regulated grown weed will provide you medicinal benefits no matter if you are labeling your smoking session as recreational or medicinal.
Classifying the types of marijuana patients continues cannabis discrimination and the stigma around cannabis users. Cannabis is a medicine, and we have to start thinking of it as such. There is no difference between medicinal or recreational marijuana; there is only marijuana.