Let me be blunt…
Well for this post i will focus a little on the medical side of the marijuana controversy…
There was an article published in the Issues in Science and Technology that stated,” marijuana’s active components are potentially effective in treating pain, nausea, AIDS-related loss of appetite, and other symptoms.” Many cancer patients get proscribed medical marijuana for their pain as well. From people with sleep deficiencies to people that get migraine headaches can also be prescribed medical marijuana. There are currently 14 states that you can obtain cannabis in for medical purposes. These states include Alaska, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont,Washington and most recently New Jersey in 2010. It has been in discussion for a while now if Pennsylvania residents will be able to obtain medical marijuana but the law has yet to be passed. In my own opinion i think it would be a great idea, if not the best idea for every state to have medical marijuana. It is proven fact that it DOES help you. Although the smoke inhaled into your lungs can have negative effects, therefore you could also make oils and butter to put into food and take it that way. There is also the use of a vaporizer. It heats the active ingredients in cannabis and it produces a vapor that you inhale. This vapor releases 5 components (including the main component THC(what gives you a high)) where just smoking marijuana from say a rolling paper also know as “joint” you intake 111 different components of the marijuana. And for those who don’t know… it can’t kill you…you can’t overdose (unless you smoke your body weight in cannabis which if you do you should invite me over) so don’t worry. I recently read an article by Bill Zimmerman, PhD that he wrote in 2001 that caught my interest:
“Marijuana has been used as a medicinal herb for thousands of years, going back to ancient civilizations in Egypt, India and Africa. In all that time, up to and including the present day, there has never been a report of a fatality directly due to the consumption of marijuana.
In contrast, over 1,000 people die annually in the US from an overdose of our most common non-prescription drug, aspirin. In addition, many thousands of deaths result from the legal prescription drugs.”
So in conclusion for this post and what I am thinking will be my thesis for my augmentative essay is a quote by Kristen Dunst, “If everyone smoked weed, the world would be a better place.”
Beef yo
I’m usually not a big complainer but there are just some things that get under my skin about Pittsburgh. I hate that i can’t walk down the sidewalks on my phone and not have to yell at the top of my lungs for the other person to hear me when a bus goes by.
The Housing in Pittsburgh is my biggest problem though. The AI Housing i feel like should be better. The RA’s could be more friendly I’d say. I don’t know, being here just doesn’t feel like you have your own house. I feel watched. I don’t like that i have to follow rules in my own home. I can’t wait until i can move up on the mountain and not have to deal with the dorm life. It’s nice that they are right by the school but there’s a lot of things that could be different about them. Like for instance… tiled floors in Shannon Hall would be a great start. This painted floor bullshit is just bullshit.
I feel like Pittsburgh could be much cleaner if it tried to be. I don’t know but i feel like we should be in a cleaner environment.
not me
If i had to describe myself from the point of view of someone the complete opposite of me I’m sure they would say how could someone be so childish? I mean she wants to work at Disney World are you kidding me? Always walking around acting like she doesn’t have a care in the world. Driving around all day with her friends on those back roads. Always wasting her time on the bike trail with her crazy friends in the summer. She should be working for some fancy business not following some crazy dreams. She should be more like me… I hate people. The whole world is a terrible place to be and she acts like sunlight is bursting out of her every second of the day. I hate animals, but mountain lions are fantastic. Music is noise and a waste of time. She is the complete oppposite of me. She puts friends in front of herself, I’d never do that. Everything about her character disgusts me. From her bright personality to her big heart. I never want to be like her.
This tumblr post was a bit ridiculous but I tried. haha.
pittsburgh place
I love to come down to this place when it’s warm out. Sometimes in the summer my friends and i ride our bikes down there and spend hours here. My favorite part about it is laying on the big fountain feeling just the right amount of mist spraying us. I like to watch the boats go by when we sit up against the water. Sometimes the Just Ducky tours go by and it’s fun to yell things at the tourists.
My favorite place has been under construction for a while now though, which sucks a lot. I don’t know when they are going to be done working on it but it feels like it has been forever. I’m hoping by the summer that it is open again for us to go visit. There’s always so many different kinds of people to look at. I love people watching. It’s a big time consumer of mine. It’s nice to go exploring and walking around at this place. You can chose to be around people or to completely be alone.
I went here with my roommates one of the first nights i lived in Pittsburgh. There was so much historical stuff to see. I wanted to go look at everything. I met some more of my really good friends from Pittsburgh there that night. It’s a place that i will always enjoy and it just makes this city 100 times better.
Week DOS
All throughout my senior year of high school different college reps. came to tell us about their schools. None of the schools that came interested me whatsoever until the Art Institute people came. They talked about all of the different programs and what they offered and it sounded exactly what i wanted from college and from then on I knew that I was going to attend the Art Institute. Pittsburgh is only like an hour and a half from my hometown too so it was perfect.
I didn’t know too much about Pittsburgh at that point in my life though. I knew they had a badass football and hockey team and that was basically it. I have never lived in a big city before so i was very nervous about moving here. Especially since my school was right in downtown Pittsburgh. I was coming to a place where i didn’t have a single friend and I was very scared about that. I was even more nervous about having to live in a dorm room with people that I have never met before.
It turns out i got roomed with some really cool people and things were great. I loved my classes and teachers and still do. I enjoy the city life more then back home.. there’s more to do and just never a dull moment really. The police always seemed to be stalking my friends and I back home and just jerks but it’s better here…police have way more crime and things to worry about then hoodlum teenagers. It’s great living in the city, but it’s also nice that I live close enough to home that i can go visit on weekends and breaks. So yayyy Pittsburgh!
Week UNO
Hello Tumblr,
Let’s see… first week of my third quarter went very nicely. Math, English, Life Drawing, Typography, and Photoshop class Monday thru Thursday. Having the weekends off is definitely awesome. I left Thursday night and went to spend the next few days with some close friends. We made a lot of baked goods while i was home I even went back to my old vocational high school to eat at the restaurant and visit my graphic art’s class from junior and senior year. The teachers couldn’t believe that I was actually going to college for what i went to high school for. Graphic design work is sweet though and I’ve been really thinking about going to California or Florida after i graduate to work at Disney World. That would just be amazing, and warm….I’m pretty much done with this cold weather stuff.
Something else new for me this quarter at school is that I’m getting a new room mate. My old room mate Chelsey got kicked out so now my good ol’ friend Alex is moving in. Which is hopefully going to be tomorrow because I’m sick of looking at this half empty room… it’s really depressing. Well…life drawing and typography tomorrow..goodnight tumblr..it’s been real…ha.
Nelson Ledges Quarry Park
