Medical Marijuana Medical Marijuana is known more by many street names. Marijuana should not be prescribed to patients by doctors. Physicians do not know if it actually works or not. Marijuana is classified as a schedule one drug (Doctors). The drug is not needed, there are far more other solutions to medical problems. In the year of 1937 marijuana was in the top three most prescribed medicines in the United States (University). This drug is one of humanity's oldest medicines used for almost eight decades by millions of people (Marijuana). Marijuana is legal in only twenty-five states and the district of Columbia. States are beginning to require doctors to take more medical education courses that tells more about the drug's side
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Even Physicians are still “in the dark” and do not know if Medical Marijuana actually works or not (Doctors). Marijuana has now become a subject of contentious debate. Contentious, meaning it is likely to cause people to argue or disagree. The reasoning of it being a contentious debate is because only some states have decided to legalize smoked marijuana for certain patients, and the patients who say they need it when not actually having a reasoning for it thinks that it is highly unfair that they can not use the drug. If medical marijuana were legalized in all states, there could be repercussions outside the realm of medicine …show more content…
THC is a what they call a mind altering chemical. It acts on specific brain cell receptors that ordinarily react to natural THC - like chemicals in the brain (Drug). It over activates certain brain cell receptors, resulting in different effects to the human body (Marijuana). Smoking THC resins extracted from the marijuana plant is rising every year (Drug). Different people raise the amount of THC in marijuana all the time cause different reactions (Marijuana). THC can result in, altered senses, many different types of hallucinations, change in mood, impaired body movements, and causes difficulties with thinking and problem solving (Marijuana). For example, the human being who is on the drug could not go to school for a whole day and learn, or take a test and end up the results they would have gotten if the patient was not taking
Even Physicians are still “in the dark” and do not know if Medical Marijuana actually works or not (Doctors). Marijuana has now become a subject of contentious debate. Contentious, meaning it is likely to cause people to argue or disagree. The reasoning of it being a contentious debate is because only some states have decided to legalize smoked marijuana for certain patients, and the patients who say they need it when not actually having a reasoning for it thinks that it is highly unfair that they can not use the drug. If medical marijuana were legalized in all states, there could be repercussions outside the realm of medicine …show more content…
THC is a what they call a mind altering chemical. It acts on specific brain cell receptors that ordinarily react to natural THC - like chemicals in the brain (Drug). It over activates certain brain cell receptors, resulting in different effects to the human body (Marijuana). Smoking THC resins extracted from the marijuana plant is rising every year (Drug). Different people raise the amount of THC in marijuana all the time cause different reactions (Marijuana). THC can result in, altered senses, many different types of hallucinations, change in mood, impaired body movements, and causes difficulties with thinking and problem solving (Marijuana). For example, the human being who is on the drug could not go to school for a whole day and learn, or take a test and end up the results they would have gotten if the patient was not taking