Think about this: your life or a loved one’s life is at stake and there are no proven cures. But there is something to help cope with the pain and maybe even save lives, according to PBS research (Robert Pursell 1). Medical marijuana could essentially save thousands of lives or even just extended people’s lives for a couple of years. Think about the lives that could be saved but also the country we live in now is in a ton of debt. Stopping the war on medical marijuana could save up to 10 million. From stopping the hours spent by police officers and DEA agents, to the hours spent in court, decriminalization of medical marijuana could allow for law enforcement to spend more time on the war against more serious drugs and allow prisons to be filled
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(mprnews.org) Law enforcement agencies spend thousands of hours on paper work from simple possession arrest to large grows fields. It’s estimated that one arrest happens every 48 seconds in America. Just on the war against medical marijuana alone. What could police officers be doing instead of arresting people who may need this drug for survival? Police officers could be arresting real criminals with real harmful drugs with the side effects of death and not just the side effects of “sleepiness”. The Center for Disease Control estimates 15,000 deaths due to drug over dose. This number is way to large yet every year nothing is done to try and stop it.
How about we focus on prescribing drugs that are impossible to over dose on? But what kind of drug can be prescribed that is impossible for overdoes and helps so many things such as Cancer patients, people suffering with severe pain, others suffering with anorexia and eating disorder, and many other things. It would be called Medical marijuana! It’s sometimes referred to as “the perfect drug” with no real side effects other than
(mprnews.org) Law enforcement agencies spend thousands of hours on paper work from simple possession arrest to large grows fields. It’s estimated that one arrest happens every 48 seconds in America. Just on the war against medical marijuana alone. What could police officers be doing instead of arresting people who may need this drug for survival? Police officers could be arresting real criminals with real harmful drugs with the side effects of death and not just the side effects of “sleepiness”. The Center for Disease Control estimates 15,000 deaths due to drug over dose. This number is way to large yet every year nothing is done to try and stop it.
How about we focus on prescribing drugs that are impossible to over dose on? But what kind of drug can be prescribed that is impossible for overdoes and helps so many things such as Cancer patients, people suffering with severe pain, others suffering with anorexia and eating disorder, and many other things. It would be called Medical marijuana! It’s sometimes referred to as “the perfect drug” with no real side effects other than