Green and Gators just haven’t gone well together lately.
This year alone, three Florida players — cornerback Janoris Jenkins and linebackers Chris Martin and Kedric Johnson — had misdemeanor marijuana-related arrests. Jenkins, an All-SEC performer in 2010, was dismissed from the team last week following his second arrest in three months for possession of less than 20 grams of marijuana.
Since cannabis is the only plant that yields both a drug or intoxicant and a useful fiber, its early history can be readily traced through references to a plant that yields both.
Several U.S. states have started reassessing their medical marijuana laws after stern warnings from the federal government that everyone from licensed growers to regulators could be subjected to prosecution.
A quick sweep of google for “students hospitalized after smoking synthetic Marijuana” returns 619,000 hits. I am not suggesting we make weed legal and available to children but the fact that a dangerous synthetic version of a benign (by most accounts) natural herb gives me pause.
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