Marijuana should be legal for medical purposes also because it can be used to save many lives. www.factslides.com has stated in their marijuana slide article that there is a marijuana compound that causes cancer …show more content…
Dave Fratello from www.thirteen.org in his article Should marijuana be legalized for medical purposes has stated that ‘Modern scientific studies, including six sponsored by U.S. states in the 1970s and 1980s, demonstrate that smoked marijuana reduces nausea and reduces pain for many patients, especially those facing cancer chemotherapy and glaucoma’. This means that not only this benefit affects cancer patients but it also can affect normal people without cancer or a disease who have just these problems such as, severe headaches and nausea. Also this means that instead of taking prescription medicines for people these symptoms, which can cause other health problems. They can just use prescribed medical marijuana as a safe and fast way to go along their day. Furthermore marijuana if legal it could be studied more effectively and could be used to find many new cures for many diseases since, it provides many more benefits than