Well, this
might sound blasphemous, but it’s true that India is one of the largest
consumers of Cannabis in the whole world. Either you may ask for its leaves or
seeds or fruits or resin, whatever… India still uses it like no big deal. Yes,
India touches the welkin somewhere! GO Ahead India!
Cannabis, by the way, is also known by the racist slang name. Marijuana or
pot just to name a few besides Charas, Hashish, Ganja being its various
formulable products. Fusty to even read? This is the literal Weed that raises
the viridity of Highways of Clean India, Green India.
Benefits
of Cannibis Sativa
It has many benefits in the world of Pharmacy and medicine.
But way more problems are there to equalize the scales. It is currently legal
in many parts of the world including few states of India and the U.S. as well.
Look into the irony here, that it was the US only. Who was the one to run its
campaign or to say propaganda against the habitual drugs in order to maintain
its supremacy in the Growing urban world? And now after legalization and
so-called regulation, these countries too are coming to know about the mistake
they have made in making it legal, say.
For example:- The Traffic mortality rate flung far over than what it
was, according to a survey conducted by the Think tanks of the various
Governments of the legalizing nations. Are the Governments till thinking that
no one pondered upon their redux? America?
Role of
Cannabis in India
Indian Government too played a clever game in defining
Cannabis as just the flowers or fruiting tops of the plant withholding its
resinous content inside. Mercilessly excluding Bhang or the leaves and seeds
from that Definition. Now, we can’t just blame Govt. for that, because the
government is helpless in a Hindu Majority Country to whom, ‘Bhaang’ is a
Prasad from the Holy Lord Shiva. It is still consumed on many of the
Holy festivals and in many religious contexts. Even in the Nihang community
of Sikhs, they too have a religious connection with this psychoactive
plant. Now debaters either being mendacious or unknowingly and wrongly make
Vedas their shield even. When Ayurvedic texts refer to cannabis as a treatment
for several maladies. What is often overlooked is that it is categorized as
Upavisha Varga (sub poisonous). Its recreational use has been described
as toxic, that people find genteel to their body.
Researches even prove that the uncontrolled and
non-behavioral use of Cannabis and its derivatives in any form may cause
impairments in memory and in mental processes. Longterm use of cannabis may
lead to the development of addiction of the substance — persistent cognitive
deficits, and of mental health problems like schizophrenia, depression, and
anxiety. Exposure to cannabis in adolescence can also alter brain development.
Is it sensible and reasonable to hoise your own body? Not to you maybe, but
there are about 31 million cannabis consumers in India.
But it is a big topic to debate on… On one side it is toxic
and at another face, its anticancer properties are being studied and utilized.
There is a $30 billion market of Tobacco in this world. But I think no
amount can compensate for the health of millions of Tobacco users in the
country and worldwide. Cannabis produces potent analgesic, antiemetic,
anti-inflammatory and many other pharmacological actions.
The crude herb, its active constituents, and some synthetic analogs have been tried in a variety of conditions and many potential clinical applications are proposed.
- To ameliorate muscle and nerve spasm and pain.
- Cancer chemotherapy
- Induced vomiting
- As a neuronal protective agent after head injury and cerebral ischemia.
- To relieve anxiety; migraine.
- To reduce intraocular pressure in glaucoma.
- As appetite stimulant.
- For Bronchial Dilation in asthma.
Although, as mentioned before the hallucinogenic and
psychomotor effects are its huge limitations. While its non-hallucinogenic
congeners are still being further investigated.
All in all, a nutshell says that in the coming heist and
drive for the clamoring of legalization, regulation, decriminalization of
Cannabis. In the wake of the following superpowers like America and Europe. I
think it would be a wiser and commendable for our country to keep the
legalization of Cannabis to Medical usage only.
But if it in the near or far future, it goes the other way.
Then it would still be raised from my side to not just consider but ensure that
there are enough directives pellucid in the jurisdiction to properly shield and
protect Children. The teens and mentally sick parts of the population. Because
they are the most vulnerable class of humans to the ill effects of cannabis. It
won’t be considered a foible mistake if the minutiae are misunderstood or
mishandled. Those supports now would then be lampooning the most.
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