My First Step To The Mythical World Of Marijuana

There is a plant which has been serving human for centuries as the form of food, medicine or clothing. This plant can be known by many names like Marijuana, Ganja, Weed, cannabis etc. Despite its importance, we people (let us say so-called modernized, civilized people) see it as a harmful plant. In many communities, including mine, of course, this plant has been branded as lethal drugs by so-called advanced and civilized people. So I wanted to verify, is this plant which has been used by our ancestor for centuries are lethal and harmful. And that point of my life became my first step to the mythical world of marijuana.

Marijauna Plant

Searching Phase

I started my search for the answer by digging into my religion and what it conveys about Marijuana. Talking about my religion, my religion is Hindu and we worship many god and goddess. Among the highest ranked god is Lord Shiva. According to different religious books and beliefs, Lord Shiva also smokes Ganja and calls it pure object delivered from heaven to provide extreme relaxation to life. Furthermore, anything, if used within the limit, will give the optimum benefit and used excess can harm us. If we use same philosophy on our community’s behaviour we could employ some ridiculous rules like as different medicines taken in large amount can cause harm to us ranging up to death, so we should not use medicines. Likewise, if we eat a large amount of food we could suffer from different problems like diarrhoea, stomach pain etc… so that we should not eat any food. Do you think these conclusions that I have made, make sense or not? In my opinion, these are some ridiculous conclusions, then how can we say marijuana is lethal. If used properly this plant can unlock many mysteries incorporated with it and helps us to reap out maximum benefit from it.

Trying Phase

This part is called trying phase.Searching for these facts do not matter until and unless I try it by myself. So I searched for marijuana, asked my friends. So I got hooked up with some sticks of joint. My first experience of marijuana was its smell. It was a different experience; it hit my sense with sweet, earthy, herb-ish notes. Then the main moment came to test marijuana, I and my friend sat with the music on, lit up my first stick of joint. And to describe its experience it was much more smooth that cigarette, flavorful. I finished my first stick of joint then sat for some moment and went for another one. Then after finishing the second stick of joint, I could feel the effect of relaxation, peace. Environment all around me went at a slow pace; there was no stress, felt sleepy.

Joint

Observation Phase

This experience has truly exposed me to the world of marijuana and helped to understand its benefit by its optimum use to mankind.