They argue that the dangers of drugs and can limited and controlled if drugs are made legal. This has been an ongoing issue for a long time, but recently the fact that some states have passed laws legalizing marijuana has many people choosing sides. Marijuana has been legalized for medical used only in some and completely legal in Colorado and Washington (Eliza Gray, 2013). Some believe that this is a good thing, marijuana can be used to pain
Medically marijuana is sometimes helpful to heal patients. “Medical marijuana is the use of cannabis and its constituent cannabinoids such as THC as a physician-recommended form of medicine or herbal therapy. The Cannabis plant from which the cannabis drug is derived has a long history of medicinal use, with evidence dating back to 2,737 BC” (Amar 2). Being able to alleviate pain, marijuana is often made into anesthetic for medical purpose. It is undeniable that if one is not long-term using marijuana, he or she will not be affect that much by it.
Those are our unalienable rights as an American.” Enoch Easter’s opinion was, “Why not legalize marijuana period? If you use it then good for you; if you don’t then that’s your decision. Some people actually might need medical marijuana for medical conditions, but hypocrites say bad things about it and try to make it seem that it’s morally wrong if you use it. If using medical marijuana or recreational marijuana is ok by your moral beliefs, then I believe you should be able to use it. It’s not the
Bayer also stated that "Cannabis smoke contains measurable amounts of carcinogens." " It also causes irritated airways, or bronchitis, with cough and chest pains. So some patients were apt to eating the cannabis plant so they wouldn't be inhaling all the cancer-causing agents. "In the past if one needed immediate benefit from cannabis to control vomiting, one had to smoke it." Bayer
Melissa Ardis Ms. Montgomery Senior Project October 18, 2010 An End to the Marijuana Prohibition, an Improving America Thisere is no other law deemed unnecessary by such a substantial part of the populace, and yet enforced so harshly and widely; the prohibition of marijuana holds this unique quality. The term marijuana refers to the leaves and flowering top of the hemp plant, cannabis sativa. Marijuana has been illegal for less than one percent of the time is has been in use (Louie). The known uses for marijuana go back to 7,000 B.C., but in the 1970s the Uniform Controlled Substance Act classified the plant as a Schedule I drug, and ever since, an ongoing debate about the plant has risen. America’s first hemp law was in Jamestown Colony,
Introduction In recent years, there has been a strong pressure on state legislatures across the US to legalize or decriminalize use and possession of specified amounts of cannabis and/ or to pass laws that allow smoking of crude cannabis plant (also known as marijuana, weed, Mary Jane, pot, reefers, ganja, joint and grass) for prescribed medical purposes (so called “medical marijuana”). Advocacy groups claim that smoking cannabis is a safe and effective treatment for various psychological and medical conditions, ranging from stress and anxiety to Alzheimer’s dementia and Parkinson’s disease, even though cannabis is not approved for such use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Legalization of cannabis is the process of removing all legal prohibitions against it. Cannabis would then be available to the adult general population for purchase 90 | 109:2 |
Unlike different sedatives like tranquilizers, painkillers, alcohol and cigarettes, marijuana is not addictive. Obviously the argument could be made that it is, however off of what data? There is no real confirmation that demonstrates that marijuana is addictive however essentially utilized as joy. People that are against marijuana legalization will say that it is bad and terrible for you. But the sums of these presumptions are made built off of a notion with respect to the drug and its awful picture individuals get from it.
People in south Africa, can use marijuana as a medical purpose ,if marijuana is made legal. Marijuana is known as a drug, but so is alcohol and tobacco. However, alcohol and tobacco , do not have medicinal qualities . On the other hand , marijuana does have medicinal qualities. These medicinal purposes, that benefits patients suffering from cancer , glaucoma and AIDS.
Controlled distribution of the drug in a safe, regulated environment would eliminate the black market and its associated criminality. It worked with alcohol: the mobsters are no longer in control of alcohol, and police don't get shot making alcohol raids. We should take a lesson from history and legalize marijuana to reduce violence even further (MJlegal, 2007). Marijuana's therapeutic uses are well-documented in modern scientific literature. The studies indicate that marijuana provides symptomatic relief for a number of medical conditions, including nausea and vomiting, stimulating appetite, promoting weight gain, and diminishing intraocular pressure from glaucoma.
This similarity in structure “fools” receptors and allows the drugs to lock onto and activate the nerve cells. The research of the benefits of medical marijuana has verified its efficiency when applied to a variety of medical conditions. The medicinal use marijuana is well known to be of benefit in the treatment of nausea and other side effects of chemotherapy. It also helps improve the diminished appetite that patients undergoing cancer treatment experience. It lowers intraocular pressure in glaucoma patients, decrease spasticity and other neurologic symptoms in multiple sclerosis, and there is evidence that it is useful in a variety of additional medical