For years there has been a wonder drug, which has befriended countless sick patients in a number of countries. A relatively inexpensive drug that is not covered by health care plans, which has aided the ill both mentally and physically--marijuana. Significant scientific and medical studies have demonstrated that marijuana is safe for use under medical supervision and that the cannabis plant, in its natural form, has important therapeutic benefits that are often of critical medical importance to persons afflicted with a variety of
Life-threatening illnesses. Courts have recognized marijuana's medical value in treatment and have ruled that marijuana can be a drug of “necessity” in the treatment of glaucoma, cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis. From the collection of information we now have on marijuana's health benefits for the ill, there is no longer any reason to keep it illegal. It should therefore be legal for licensed physicians to prescribe marijuana for terminal patients for whom it
Offers the only reasonable opportunity for living without unbearable pain.
Marijuana has been used many times to help ease pain and suffering. It often eases nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, reduces the pain of AIDS patients and lowers eye pressure in glaucoma sufferers. Cancer and AIDS patients often lose a lot of weight, either due directly to their illness or indirectly to the treatment of the illness. Dramatic weight loss puts there
Lives in even more danger...
The controversy over the legalization of marijuana has been an important and seriously debated topic for many years. The way people look at marijuana and the use of it has changed drastically over the past few years. Marijuana used to look like any other harmful drug out there, no real purpose except for relieving stress. However, today many people see marijuana as an opportunity in the medical world. Unlike what has been thought for many past years, marijuana does actually have multiple good sides
are recreational and generally used for a high and fun. Any drug that is legal besides alcohol are drugs used in the medical field while most drugs illegal are just recreational drugs. People argue that the legal drugs are helpful not harmful and that is why they are legal. While that statement is not fully false some drugs can become addicting and yes, they may have been helpful but the more addicting they become more harmful. (Gerontology) Once a legal drug has become addicting and the person no
Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized Willie Nelson once said, “I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?” Marijuana has been a plant for longer than any human has been alive. Civilizations have used marijuana for hundreds of years for hundreds of purposes. But ever since the 1970’s when growing or having
Why Marijuana Should Be Legalized While marijuana is illegal today, it was not always a bad thing in the US. American production of hemp, where marijuana comes from, was actually encouraged by the US government for farmers to grow. In 1619 the Virginia Assembly actually passed a law requiring all farmers to grow hemp. Recreational use was not thought of until the 1920s. Recreational use of marijuana was introduced by Mexican immigrants. Marijuana use became associated with the immigrants, and fear
There are many people in the United States that use Medical Marijuana whether it is legal in the state they live in or not. There are thousands of people that cannot use medical marijuana due to it being illegal. Many people are using prescription pills and do not know the dangers of the medicine they are taking. Marijuana is not thought of as a helpful drug due to the fact that people think it is dangerous, however it can help ease the pain of many illnesses such as cancer. There has never been
What would the life be like if you could purchase marijuana anywhere and everywhere? The humannhealth website seems to think “If marijuana were legal short-term cognitive impairment would be active in more people.” (humannhealth.com)This would be an extreme risk to the youth of America by acquiring more access to the drug, it would cause them to have the effects including but not limited to; not being able to accomplish a goal they might have had. There are positive things that can come from this
What would you do if your six-month-old baby girl was having a seizure right in front of you? You have no medical experience, no understanding of what is happening, you just know that you are scared and she is in pain. You go to a hospital as fast as you can. The doctors tell you that this seizure was just a fluke. It happens again and, again, you are told that it was a fluke, but this just keeps happening. When she is eleven and has already suffered more seizures than you care to count, she
Medical Marijuana Legalization Have you ever been prescribed marijuana by a doctor for medical purposes? Say you are suffering from headaches, back pain, or ever cancer. Doctors are now prescribing medical marijuana to help with these problems and sicknesses. If you are prescribed medical marijuana, decline that prescription.. If you want to live a long healthy life, do not smoke marijuana. Medical marijuana should not be legalized in the U.S. because it could have short and long term negative
day. For many of those people, the situation seems hopeless, but there is an option that may help. Medical marijuana has been proven to be very helpful in all of those cases including other things such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and just pain in general. Not only has it been known to help reduce pain and other symptoms from those diseases but it has also becoming apparent that marijuana may also be able to potentially slow down cancer as a connection has been made between the plant
Medical marijuana is any plant of the marijuana plant that you use to treat health problems, marijuana is the dried part of the cannabis sativa plant. Marijuana has hundreds of chemicals, known as cannabinoids. The two main ones are THC and CBD. THC, tetrahydrocannabinol, is an active ingredient in marijuana. THC gives off some pleasurable effects that smokers are looking for, but it also has some effects that may treat medical problems. When you smoke marijuana, THC goes from your lungs to the bloodstream
Marijuana prohibition stands as one of the most unwarranted policies of the United States. Every year we are spending billions of dollars on the War on Drugs with little benefit. Data released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation show there were an estimated 1,552,432 arrests for drug-related crimes in 2014 – a slight uptick from the 1,531,251 drug arrests in 2013. Marijuana offenses accounted for 48.3 percent of all drug arrests. Most marijuana-related arrests were for possession of the drug
The debate regarding the legalisation of marijuana has become an extremely serious and controversial issue in society. Recreational medical marijuana use already exists in the US. Including Colorado, Oregon, and Washington. It is legal to use medical marijuana under certain guidelines in Massachusetts, California and New Jersey, this means more people will be free to use the drug for its believed health benefits. When I googled “medical marijuana,” the outcome was astonishing. I found over 24 million
Medical Marijuana Marijuana is a very hot topic and also brings a lot of controversy among the topics in the U.S today. Many believe it has medicinal benefits and should be made legal when necessary. Many believe it has a really high risk for abuse. Amongst those arguments, some of the ingredience in medical marijuana have presented a greater argument for possible legalization through their use of research and evidence of beneficial use Those against medical marijuana have given many reasons for
we should Legalize Medical Marijuana According to Kathleen Barnes on an article she wrote about the ten reasons why marijuana should be legalized for medical use, the legalization of recreational marijuana, have been subjects of deep controversy in the United States for many years. Already 20 of the 50 states have legalized medical marijuana because of the strong positive effects it has had on people with many different illnesses. I believe the drug should be open for medical use to better assist
A healthier tomorrow According to “Marijuana Now the Most Popular Drug in the World” “report on global drug use, cannabis was the world’s most widely produced, trafficked, and consumed drug in the world in 2010” (Eliana Dockterman). Marijuana is used all around the world for various things, whether it’s for medical use or for your own enjoyment. Like many others, some people don’t know that marijuana can be helpful when used carefully and properly but can also be used for harm when being used