Marijuana Vs Prescription Drugs

Recently, marijuana and prescription medications have been vigorously debated since numerous states in the United States have legalized medicinal marijuana, and in a recent event in the world, Uruguay legalized marijuana and the government regulates and sells it. Many marijuana researchers are saying that marijuana could end the need for most prescription drugs because marijuana can help with such a diverse amount of illnesses and diseases. Marijuana, compared to prescription medications from a medicinal standpoint, has no harmful side effects, marijuana also helps with a wide range of problems and users on marijuana can't overdose contrasted to the numerous prescription pills Americans overdose or die on every year. Recently, many cases of patients who use prescription painkillers have switched to marijuana because of the side effects of painkillers are much worse than what …show more content…
Marijuana can help patients with HIV (ate better, slept better, experienced better moods), Alzheimer’s( weight pain , lessened agitated behaviors, slowed Alzheimer's affects), Arthritis ( pain relief, slept better, helped inflammation), Asthma(opened airways, pain relief), Cancer(prevent nausea,improved impact of radiation on cancer cells), Chronic pain(ease pain), Crohn’s disease(ease pain, limited diarrhea, helped weight pain), Epilepsy(caused 50% less seizures), Glaucoma(lower eye pressure,preserves nerves), Multiple Sclerosis(prevent pain, stiffness and tremors) ("10 diseases"). In contrast, prescription pills are designed to help with a single cause and are made artificially. Many times prescription pills are extremely expensive, and many times, the users need them to keep their way of life. Many of the users that take the prescription pills, don't know half of the side effects their prescription can actually