My Favorite Plant

Welcome to my gardening blog!*

There are many wonderful things about the outlawed plant called marijuana. This stinky (sometimes, or so I've HEARD) green plant with five feathery tips on each leaf, and big, hairy buds (if you're lucky), has been criminalized by the uptight and frightened earlier generations of politicians, and its use is, except for medicinal purposes, illegal in the United States. However, now that Obama is president, maybe that will change... Mr. "I Smoked it AND Inhaled" might be a reasonable influence on future laws. Anyway, back to my "short paragraph about my favorite flower or tree". Oops, maybe it isn't a flower OR a tree... but since I was a florist for ten of the most hellish years of my existence, I don't have a favorite flower OR tree, so I'm going to write about this plant, which, I have heard, in tropical countries, may grow to be as big as a tree. Commonly known as "weed", "pot", or if you really want to go old school, perhaps "The Assassin of Youth" ( from the film of the same name, made in the 1930's, when the outlawing began), marijuana actually has many useful benefits. Cancer patients find much relief in the judicious use of this plant, from both side-effects of chemotherapy, and the cancer itself. it's appetite-inducing properties can be of great help to many cancer and AIDS patients, and is "the most effective know treatment for nausea known to man", to quote one doctor who wishes to remain unidentified... at least until marijuana is legalized. Contray to popular belief, and the evidence of many men who still live in their parents' basements at the age of forty-two, marijuana is not physically addictive, although the existence of such men as mentioned before could be possibly proof of its psychological addictiveness. Hmmm... hope this is long enough to prove I can post at a blog.





* This is a school assignment, so any of you who stumble on this and are going, what the HECK is she writing about this for, and why did she start an entire BLOG about it, for God's sake....well, wonder no longer, my friends. This class, which would be useful for anyone who just climbed out of the 1970's and doesn't know how to use the internet, is a requirement for my degree. I guess they think someone who is going to be doing graphic design and webpages, stuff like that, should be able to navigate the internet. And luckily, because of this oh-so helpful book, I now can send an email, "surf" the web ( see, see? I'm getting all the slang words down, too!) and post at a real live blog too.
The topic was my favorite plant, which I do not have, so I decided to talk about the favorite plant of many other people I know.