Marijuana: A Short History of Changes in Law and Public Opinion

Marijuana: A Short History of Changes in Law and Public Opinion

It's interesting how different public opinion is now than it was years go during my parents childhood. I predict it won't be long until pot is legal in Illinois. If the government were to legalize marijuana I believe that there would be far more benefits than consequences to doing so. Jails wouldn't be so swamped for one thing. Plus the government could regulate the hell out of it!! Monitoring grow fields and the cultivation of the plant and then taxing it all over the place. What the government should do is make cigarettes illegal and replace that industry with the marijuana business. The outcome from such a thing would be higher cooperation between people within the country, more of us would get along with one another, and the country would probably get along better with other country's as well. All in all everyone would be happier and peace would spread all over the place for years and years to come.

A New Beginning

As my last college tour is coming to an end and my plans for after high school have pretty much been figured out I realized how ready I am for something so totally different from what I have known for the past 17 almost 18 years. Deerfield and Tuscaloosa are two very very different community's, different lifestyles, different people. It's a big change but change is good. There's a lot of rich history all over Alabama and its amazing. I hope I get the opportunity to take a class on the civil war and the civil rights movement while I'm at the university even though I've taken courses at DHS which have covered both topics but I'm curious to see if either are taught different in the south versus what's taught in the north. I'll be exposed to so many new people who are different than me and I want to learn everything I can about as much as I can over the next four years.

Hidden Bias

After taking three different IAT tests and the results from each I don't think that these tests are an accurate way to determine a hidden bias. But with the slight exception of the Fat Thin test which I think was better able to detect a hidden bias due to the subject matter because fat and thin are easily seen. Although I would probably get a slightly different result if i were to take the same test a different time, since I had just finished completing two other IAT tests which tested using the same format so maybe I was already use to pushing the i and e keys when I saw the words on the screen which were the same for the other tests. It was a fun and interesting experiment despite my thoughts towards its inability to accurately capture a persons bias but it was something new and different and I enjoyed it.