Thesis Statement: Medical marijuana has many medical benefits warranting its legalization, which include eliminating visual haloes produced by glaucoma, controlling intraocular pressure, cough suppression, as well as the treatment of asthma, depression, pain, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, peripheral neuropathy and muscle spasticity in conditions such as multiple sclerosis. AIDS, and cancer.
I. Background Information- Cannabis sativa, or marijuana as we have come know, has been around for five millennia and used medically throughout the world to treat many medical ailments, which include pain, whooping cough, asthma and anxiety.
A. Therefore, regardless of the fact cannabis utilization does not have the evidence-based controlled trials to merit the beneficial use required for prescriptive authority, the trials to date, alongside the successful historical use of cannabis in treating ailments as compared to other viable solutions, may possibly oblige no further studies to demonstrate its therapeutic worth (Bostwick).
1. “Traditional Eastern medicine met Western medicine when W.B. O’Shaughnessy, an Irish physician working in Calcutta in the 1830’s wrote a paper extolling “Indian hemp” (Bostwick 173). “The list of indications for which he recommended cannabis-pain, vomiting, convulsions, and spasticity-strikingly resembles the …show more content…
“Robert Randall was diagnosed with severe glaucoma at age 24 and was expected to become totally blind long before he turned 30” (Russo, et al. 4). “His own journey commenced when he independently discovered that smoking a certain amount of cannabis eliminated the annoying visual haloes produced by his glaucoma” and “through painstaking documentation and experimentation, Randall subsequently confirmed the inability of medical science to control his intraocular pressure (IOP) by any legal pharmaceutical means,” which led to Randall obtaining “his first government supplied cannabis in November, 1976” (Russo, et al.
I. Background Information- Cannabis sativa, or marijuana as we have come know, has been around for five millennia and used medically throughout the world to treat many medical ailments, which include pain, whooping cough, asthma and anxiety.
A. Therefore, regardless of the fact cannabis utilization does not have the evidence-based controlled trials to merit the beneficial use required for prescriptive authority, the trials to date, alongside the successful historical use of cannabis in treating ailments as compared to other viable solutions, may possibly oblige no further studies to demonstrate its therapeutic worth (Bostwick).
1. “Traditional Eastern medicine met Western medicine when W.B. O’Shaughnessy, an Irish physician working in Calcutta in the 1830’s wrote a paper extolling “Indian hemp” (Bostwick 173). “The list of indications for which he recommended cannabis-pain, vomiting, convulsions, and spasticity-strikingly resembles the …show more content…
“Robert Randall was diagnosed with severe glaucoma at age 24 and was expected to become totally blind long before he turned 30” (Russo, et al. 4). “His own journey commenced when he independently discovered that smoking a certain amount of cannabis eliminated the annoying visual haloes produced by his glaucoma” and “through painstaking documentation and experimentation, Randall subsequently confirmed the inability of medical science to control his intraocular pressure (IOP) by any legal pharmaceutical means,” which led to Randall obtaining “his first government supplied cannabis in November, 1976” (Russo, et al.