Do the benefits of medical marijuana justify its legality?
People should not legalize the use of medical marijuana because the public’s knowledge is not sufficient or safe enough to continue its usage, it affects peoples career status, as well as health and social issues. The term medical marijuana refers to treating a disease or symptom with the whole unprocessed marijuana plant or its basic extracts.
For thousands of years’ humans have been using substances to alter their state of mind and one of the most commonly used drug in north America is marijuana. The way if affects your brain of what we currently do know is through your neurons. What is a neuron you ask? A neuron is an electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information …show more content…
The neuron is also a nerve cell that can transmit nerve signals to and from the brain at up to 268 mph. The neuron releases neurotransmitters (also known as chemical messengers or information) from one end of a neuron call an axon to the beginning of another called a dendrite. These electrical charges are passed or stopped through the transport of the signals. The information of the signals gets processed within milliseconds of your entire brain and this is what happens every time you think or move. When you smoke marijuana recreationally or medically marijuana resembles similar molecules in our brain called cannabinoids and naturally they circulate in lower quantities unless you start smoking. The THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) resembles our natural neurotransmitter Anandamide. The cannabinoids are special neurotransmitters released by neurons, while operating …show more content…
According to National Conference of State Legislature for medical use, smoked marijuana, however, is a crude THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) delivery system that also delivers harmful substances. This harm is also going to your brain. While this substance is also going to your brain we still haven’t even uncovered all the mysteries of the brain either, which is a big concern for some serious issues and cause for debate, if we don’t know how something completely works why would you risk damaging it. It was also not long ago in the year 1885, when Coca cola was invented for medicinal purposes that all of the population of the U.S. was going crazy for the Coca Cola product that used to contain cocaine traces another schedule I type drug and after all of the harsh findings by the chemists, and cocaine wasn’t seen as an Illegal substance back until 1914, 11 years after Coca cola change their product from having cocaine in it in 1903. They also didn’t perfect the extraction of the cocaine until 1929 and this process was accelerated due to the public pressure and prohibition against alcohol. Furthermore, during the prohibition era in 1920, One of the legal exceptions to the Prohibition law was that pharmacists were allowed to dispense whiskey by prescription for any number of ailments, ranging from anxiety to influenza. Bootleggers quickly discovered that running a pharmacy was a perfect front for their trade. As a result, the number
People should not legalize the use of medical marijuana because the public’s knowledge is not sufficient or safe enough to continue its usage, it affects peoples career status, as well as health and social issues. The term medical marijuana refers to treating a disease or symptom with the whole unprocessed marijuana plant or its basic extracts.
For thousands of years’ humans have been using substances to alter their state of mind and one of the most commonly used drug in north America is marijuana. The way if affects your brain of what we currently do know is through your neurons. What is a neuron you ask? A neuron is an electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information …show more content…
The neuron is also a nerve cell that can transmit nerve signals to and from the brain at up to 268 mph. The neuron releases neurotransmitters (also known as chemical messengers or information) from one end of a neuron call an axon to the beginning of another called a dendrite. These electrical charges are passed or stopped through the transport of the signals. The information of the signals gets processed within milliseconds of your entire brain and this is what happens every time you think or move. When you smoke marijuana recreationally or medically marijuana resembles similar molecules in our brain called cannabinoids and naturally they circulate in lower quantities unless you start smoking. The THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) resembles our natural neurotransmitter Anandamide. The cannabinoids are special neurotransmitters released by neurons, while operating …show more content…
According to National Conference of State Legislature for medical use, smoked marijuana, however, is a crude THC (Tetrahydrocannabinol) delivery system that also delivers harmful substances. This harm is also going to your brain. While this substance is also going to your brain we still haven’t even uncovered all the mysteries of the brain either, which is a big concern for some serious issues and cause for debate, if we don’t know how something completely works why would you risk damaging it. It was also not long ago in the year 1885, when Coca cola was invented for medicinal purposes that all of the population of the U.S. was going crazy for the Coca Cola product that used to contain cocaine traces another schedule I type drug and after all of the harsh findings by the chemists, and cocaine wasn’t seen as an Illegal substance back until 1914, 11 years after Coca cola change their product from having cocaine in it in 1903. They also didn’t perfect the extraction of the cocaine until 1929 and this process was accelerated due to the public pressure and prohibition against alcohol. Furthermore, during the prohibition era in 1920, One of the legal exceptions to the Prohibition law was that pharmacists were allowed to dispense whiskey by prescription for any number of ailments, ranging from anxiety to influenza. Bootleggers quickly discovered that running a pharmacy was a perfect front for their trade. As a result, the number