Pros and Cons: Legal Marijuana in Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara’s first marijuana dispensaries are a welcome addition to the community from many — but not necessarily all — perspectives. Advantages and drawbacks exist within the increased availability of legal marijuana (defined as plant-based products with quite 0.3% delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol [THC]). We don't discuss cannabidiol (CBD), a component of cannabis plants, which lacks the high and should (or may not) produce other benefits.Perhaps the clearest advantage of legal marijuana sales may be a decrease in social, legal, and economic burdens imposed by its former criminalization. Such burdens were disproportionately borne by racial minorities, who despite not selling or using marijuana more often than the population as an entire, were almost fourfold as likely to be arrested and incarcerated for such activities. Legalization also shifts economic benefits faraway from the black market and toward legal businesses, many of which are local. And Santa Barbara County will benefit (albeit much but originally estimated) from a projected $6 million increase in tax revenues in 2019, a number of which can be utilized in efforts to decrease the substantial illegal cultivation of marijuana that persists in Santa Barbara County. Other advantages include easier access for dispensary Santa Barbara Buy CBD Flower, Hemp Flower, CBD Rerolls, and CBG Flower online!
Residents and tourists who enjoy the high.Many people use marijuana for medical reasons. However, proof of medical benefits is weak and limited to little subset of conditions. These conditions include pain thanks to nerve disease, nausea, and vomiting in patients receiving cancer chemotherapy, seizures thanks to one rare cause, and spasticity thanks to MS.The disadvantages of increased availability are better established, although this isn’t recognized by most Americans, whose views of marijuana are generally more positive than existing evidence supports. Thanks to a scarcity of standardized laboratory testing methodologies and ranging laboratory quality, measurements of the reported potency of various strains of marijuana is usually inaccurate and will be differences in pharmacological effects.Repeated use of marijuana in adolescence, a time when the brain is undergoing active development, seems to be related to impaired neural connectivity within the brain and declines in IQ and faculty performance. Heavy use at any age can cause heart and lung diseases, and to cannabis use disorder, defined as use despite cannabis-associated impairments in psychological, physical, and social functioning.Even short-term use causes dose-related neurocognitive dysfunction, including impairments in motor coordination, attention, concentration, and personal memory functions. Increased availability has led to increases within the number of hospitalizations of youngsters (due to unintentional exposure), adolescents and adults (following intentional use). It also appears that, compared to the population as whole, chronic cannabis users are susceptible to report lower life satisfaction and achievement. Marijuana may increase injuries when using automobiles, but the extent of this is often unclear.