20 Real People Explain Why Cannabis Should Be Normalized

The Miss Marijuana Instagram community is seriously passionate about cannabis! When I asked our followers why they think cannabis should be normalized, there was an overwhelming response.

Here’s what they had to say about cannabis prohibition and why marijuana should be available to all and accepted by everyone.

1.Because cannabis controls my seizures

Because it is a big part of the medication to control my seizures, just as much as any other legal prescription. Nobody should be shamed or forced to break to law to maintain their health.

2. Because cannabis helps me avoid opioids

It is how I avoided the opioid epidemic after a car collision at a very young age. Thanks Goddess of MaryJane for your gifted herbal natural healers & medicine women who smoked me out when I could barely stand or sit.

3. Because cannabis helps me when I can’t get health care

It helps while I try to navigate around this shotty healthcare system and these lazy doctors.

4. Because cannabis helps me avoid prescription meds for anxiety

Because it works better than those anxiety pills doctors try to shove down your throat.

5. Because cannabis saved me from postpartum depression

Because it has saved me a time or two dealing with postpartum depression. Everyone should know the healing benefits of cannabis.

6. Because cannabis helps me be myself

Because I lived in a state where I had to hide a part of me for almost 2 years and when I finally moved to a legal state I felt like myself for once. Stop judging people because they decide to use a different medication than you. It is after all, a plant.

7. Because cannabis is my medicine

Because I have used cannabis more often than not medicinally and shouldn’t be shunned for it.

8. Because cannabis helps me relax

Because it’s hard being “pro” something that carries such a negative stigma (for no reason!). How I choose to medicate myself and relax recreationally shouldn’t allow anyone to think they have an edge on me. Ever.

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9. Because cannabis is natural and not dangerous

Because it comes from our earth just like produce, and nobody has ever died from it!

10. Because cannabis is less harmful than alcohol

Because alcohol is toxic and cannabis is healing.

11. Because cannabis brings people together in a positive way

It needs to be normalized because of its power to heal and bring people together in positive ways. I have never heard of a fight breaking out when there is a gathering where cannabis is being consumed. Quite the opposite when it comes to alcohol. There’s even a name for it: “bar fight.”

12. Because cannabis is beneficial in more ways than one

Aside from the inspirational and medicinal benefits of THC and CBD producing Cannabis, Cannabis on the industrial side (Hemp) offers just as much benefit to our world and environment in the form providing quality and sustainable organic materials which can be processed into products we consume every day. If we cannot see this gift offered to us by the Natural Kingdom, are we really as intelligent as we believe?

13. Because cannabis was lumped into a category it never belonged in

Because of the lies and propaganda perpetuated against it. Because when people realize that cannabis “isn’t as bad as everyone made it out to be” they question whether everything else is, including hard drugs, and get themselves into unnecessary trouble. Because the line between plant medicine of all forms and real drugs, even prescription, needs to be drawn and clearly defined.

14. Because cannabis is a social plant

So people can stop feeling guilty and scared about socially smoking. It’s the same as socially drinking.

15. Because cannabis has the power to heal

I’m tired of people judging me for using it! Such negative energy with everyone’s ignorance. I think it has the power to help so many people!!

16. Because cannabis is good for the economy

Because it’s medicine. Because it has been expressed unfairly and unjustly for years during this War On Drugs since Nixon, and how many have been affected by these incarcerations is saddening. I only hope that with this Farm Bill and with the introduction of more funding for cannabis research, we will be able to provide a new, green flood of hemp will flip our textile, medici industry and boom our economy for the better