Legalization of Marijuana
With so many controversial topics in the world today, to determine who is right and who is wrong in the case of marijuana; Sometimes it’s just too hard to say what should be legal and what should not be legal. For example, the legalization of marijuana. This can be a touchy subject, and some have very strong views. I believe that the United States should legalize marijuana. By just decriminalizing it, as states recently such as California, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts most recently have been doing, simply is not enough. People need to realize marijuana is not a “hard drug”. The CDC, a government run website, states that last year there were approximately 88,000 people who died due to excess alcohol related deaths. …show more content…
There are treatments right now for pain relief, but most are very expensive and some have side effects that can even be deadly. Marijuana does not have any life-threatening side effects like a lot of medications, but if you 're preference is not with the medicinal purposes of marijuana then there will be other medications available for pain relief. The Institution of Medicine reported “marijuana can provide superior relief to patients who suffer those symptoms because of certain illnesses and disabilities, metastatic cancer, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, and epilepsy, and those who suffer the same symptoms as side effects from the aggressive treatments for such conditions” (ProCon.org). Medication for people who have those diseases are very expensive. Medicinal uses for marijuana could cut the medical costs by a lot depending on how much medication they’re taking. The IOM also stated that, “The profile of cannabinoid drug effects suggests that they are promising for treating wasting syndrome in AIDS patients. Nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana” (ProCon.org). There are so many options for the use of marijuana in the medicinal purpose, that are way more cost efficient than a lot of other medications for diseases such as cancer and AIDS. But, the use of medicinal purposes for marijuana are not only limited with these severe patients. Any type of disease has the potential to be helped by medicinal marijuana. Making marijuana legal could help so many different diseases and conditions. It could help people suffering from other drug addictions by trying to calm them down and help with the withdrawal. It could also benefit the younger crowd who is suffering from conditions such as anorexia and bulimia. Even things such as the flu could be helped by medicinal marijuana by preventing
With so many controversial topics in the world today, to determine who is right and who is wrong in the case of marijuana; Sometimes it’s just too hard to say what should be legal and what should not be legal. For example, the legalization of marijuana. This can be a touchy subject, and some have very strong views. I believe that the United States should legalize marijuana. By just decriminalizing it, as states recently such as California, Nevada, Maine, and Massachusetts most recently have been doing, simply is not enough. People need to realize marijuana is not a “hard drug”. The CDC, a government run website, states that last year there were approximately 88,000 people who died due to excess alcohol related deaths. …show more content…
There are treatments right now for pain relief, but most are very expensive and some have side effects that can even be deadly. Marijuana does not have any life-threatening side effects like a lot of medications, but if you 're preference is not with the medicinal purposes of marijuana then there will be other medications available for pain relief. The Institution of Medicine reported “marijuana can provide superior relief to patients who suffer those symptoms because of certain illnesses and disabilities, metastatic cancer, HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injuries, and epilepsy, and those who suffer the same symptoms as side effects from the aggressive treatments for such conditions” (ProCon.org). Medication for people who have those diseases are very expensive. Medicinal uses for marijuana could cut the medical costs by a lot depending on how much medication they’re taking. The IOM also stated that, “The profile of cannabinoid drug effects suggests that they are promising for treating wasting syndrome in AIDS patients. Nausea, appetite loss, pain, and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting, and all can be mitigated by marijuana” (ProCon.org). There are so many options for the use of marijuana in the medicinal purpose, that are way more cost efficient than a lot of other medications for diseases such as cancer and AIDS. But, the use of medicinal purposes for marijuana are not only limited with these severe patients. Any type of disease has the potential to be helped by medicinal marijuana. Making marijuana legal could help so many different diseases and conditions. It could help people suffering from other drug addictions by trying to calm them down and help with the withdrawal. It could also benefit the younger crowd who is suffering from conditions such as anorexia and bulimia. Even things such as the flu could be helped by medicinal marijuana by preventing