Written by: Sauharda Bajracharya - 26010, Grade VII
Posted on: 21 October, 2021
This is a very controversial topic and this topic can be good and bad from many perspectives. Looking from religious perspectives, Lord Shiva used to smoke weed and his followers do so as well. His followers might say that they are just following their god and their religion and they are not wrong. Many decades ago, weed was legal in Nepal. People used weed as medicines and some soldiers even used weed to keep them calm during wartime. Till 1975, weed was legal in Nepal but in 1976 Nepal Government banned weed. Many people might say that cannabis is harmful but this isn’t true. Weed is the least harmful drug and even alcohol is more dangerous than cannabis. Cannabis is found naturally in Nepal and it can help to raise the economy of the country.
As I said, they are used for medicinal purposes and from a medicinal point of view, they have a lot of benefits. Cannabis can treat relief from chronic pain, reduce anxiety and it is also used to treat insomnia, body pain, etc. Weeds are used in farms to cure sick domestic animals from diarrhea, excessive pain and mental problems. Cannabis has no serious harmful effects and with its medical purposes, why shouldn’t it be legalized? The government has banned cannabis but people still sell it and people still smoke it especially during Shiva Ratri and other festivals. Other countries like Canada and the Netherlands know how to better regulate these kinds of drugs. In my point of view, cannabis should be legalized.
