Medical Marijuana
Medical marijuana has many great effects on many different people with many different health related problems. Marijuana has been proven to help with pain, nausea, appetite, etc. Many cancer patients, patients with HIV, patients with seizures, patients with neurological disorders, and many more have benefitted from medical marijuana. There are many states that have already legalized this for medical purposes, but there are still many who have not. Many people are worried that legalizing medical marijuana will cause other health related problems, but the good outweighs the bad. Considering that marijuana has been proven to help with medical issues, and has not caused any proven deaths, why would we not legalize it all over …show more content…
As of today, there are 24 states in America that medical marijuana is legal. These include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Some of these states allow it for all medical purposes and some only allow certain medical conditions such as cancer patients only, or seizure patients only, etc. Out of all of the states that have legalized it, no one has died or had a negative reaction relating to the medical …show more content…
The most widely used way is to smoke it. There are also options for inhaling it with an inhalation device, ingesting it in food or as a tea, taken orally, an oromucosal spray, or applied topically. It may be extracted naturally from the cannabis plant, produced by the isomerization of CBD, manufactured synthetically, or provided as an herbal formulation. Some cannabinoids have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. One is dronabinol which is a synthetic version of THC. The other is nabilone which is a synthetic cannabinoid. (Metts, Wright, Sundaram, & Hashemi,
Medical marijuana has many great effects on many different people with many different health related problems. Marijuana has been proven to help with pain, nausea, appetite, etc. Many cancer patients, patients with HIV, patients with seizures, patients with neurological disorders, and many more have benefitted from medical marijuana. There are many states that have already legalized this for medical purposes, but there are still many who have not. Many people are worried that legalizing medical marijuana will cause other health related problems, but the good outweighs the bad. Considering that marijuana has been proven to help with medical issues, and has not caused any proven deaths, why would we not legalize it all over …show more content…
As of today, there are 24 states in America that medical marijuana is legal. These include Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington. Some of these states allow it for all medical purposes and some only allow certain medical conditions such as cancer patients only, or seizure patients only, etc. Out of all of the states that have legalized it, no one has died or had a negative reaction relating to the medical …show more content…
The most widely used way is to smoke it. There are also options for inhaling it with an inhalation device, ingesting it in food or as a tea, taken orally, an oromucosal spray, or applied topically. It may be extracted naturally from the cannabis plant, produced by the isomerization of CBD, manufactured synthetically, or provided as an herbal formulation. Some cannabinoids have been approved by the US Food and Drug Administration. One is dronabinol which is a synthetic version of THC. The other is nabilone which is a synthetic cannabinoid. (Metts, Wright, Sundaram, & Hashemi,