(Legalizing Marijuana) Marijuana helps relieve nausea suffered by cancer patients who are going through powerful chemotherapy treatments. (Legalizing Marijuana) It is also used by patients who have multiple sclerosis and AIDS. (Why Marijuana Shouls be Legal) Marijuana has been proven to be effective in the treatments of glaucoma because it lowers pressure on the eye. (Why Marijuana Shouls be Legal) In the United States there are an estimated 2.7 million people who abuse drugs. (Zive, 2010) The most popular is marijuana.
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That avenue is to allow the states, all 50 of them to offer marijuana for medicinal purposes to those who truly need it. The government must also realize that by legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes it would be another avenue of a way to fund desperately needed programs within each state. True there are both pros and cons to the legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes. However it appears that as far as human health is concerned marijuana for medicinal purposes is a much safer alternative for a cancer patient who deals with nausea and fatigue because of the chemotherapy that he or she is going through. If marijuana can curb the side effects than is marijuana for medicinal purposes not worth
It is then left up to the patient to find a medical marijuana clinic and obtain a legal medical marijuana card. Marijuana has a plethora of benefits not only to our society but more for medical purposes. In an article written by John Burnett, he discusses possible outcomes if marijuana was legalized. He states that legalizing marijuana would drop crime and addiction rates. People who are addicted to narcotics due to chronic pain, would more than likely stop using if they could legally obtain marijuana.
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There is a number of evidence to support both side of this debate. For the pro of medical marijuana, researchers have found it to be useful for cancer pain, MS, tourette’s, and other types of chronic pain. Nevertheless, there are cons for the use of medical marijuana, such as, the smoke can be harmful to our bodies, cannabis is damaging to the brain, and a bad image for children, and one can become addicted easily. Even though medical marijuana is legal in 15 states as of November 4, 2010; we still have to take account the research that has happened and is still happening. There are side effects to this drug and it is not meant for
Although alcohol is legal, it does not mean that it is better for you. There are arguments going both ways where people suggest that marijuana should be legal because alcohol is more deadly, while there are alcoholics that would say smoking weed is bad for you. Both substances are bad for your health and should not be used heavily by anyone. Marijuana has an immediate effect on the user, which last for about two hours after smoking. A person drinking alcohol may start to feel the effects after just one drink, and recover depending on how much the person drank, body weight, and how much they may have had to eat before drinking.
A Schedule One Substance doesn't have any accepted medical use in the United States and a high potential for abuse. The state argued that the federal government's policy [of targeting physicians for recommending Marijuana as medicine] deliberately undermines the state by incapacitating the mechanism the state has chosen for separating what is legal from what is illegal under state law. States are arguing that they could use Medical Marijuana as a source of income to help pull us out of debt. According to “priceofweed.com” a crowd sourced Internet archive of pot prices across the country, the national average cost of an ounce of high-quality marijuana is roughly $350. Pot smokers can really stretch their dollars on the West Coast.