Imagine you have cancer and are undergoing chemotherapy, would you use marijuana if it could allow you to continue your treatment without the nausea and vomiting? Medically prescribed marijuana should be legalized because has a beneficial effect on patients who suffer from certain diseases, both by treating disease symptoms and by moderating the unpleasant side effects of the treatment, it has cut back on prescription painkiller overdoses in the states where it is already legal, and there have been no causes of death directly linked to marijuana. Dating back 5,000 years ago, marijuana had been used in several countries as ways to treat a wide variety of conditions. According to TIME magazine in the article “A Brief History of Medical Marijuana”,
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It is a synthetic form of THC that is responsible for marijuana’s “high.” It can take over an hour to take effect, whereas smoked marijuana is effective almost immediately. Patients who suffer from nausea also have trouble keeping pills down. It is also reported that the dosage is hard to control and may not have any effect on the patient taking the pill. In addition, the cost of Marinol can cost three to five times more than a comparable dose of medical …show more content…
The United States is in somewhat of a growing painkiller abuse “crisis.” Prescription drugs have become a leading cause of accidental death in the United States. Overdose deaths from prescription painkillers have gone up 118 percent between 1999 and 2011. According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC), there were 22,767 drug overdoses related to pharmaceuticals in 2013 and of those 22,767 overdoes 16,235 involved opioid analgesics, also known as prescription painkillers. As you can see there is a current problem with painkillers, and if medical marijuana can reduce overdoses by twenty-five percent in each state it is a step in the right direction to end the painkiller “crisis.” Some readers may challenge my view by insisting that smoking marijuana is just as damaging to the body as tobacco. However, when the issue is fully examined on all sides there are a variety of different ways to consume marijuana that don’t involve the irritants found in smoke such as vaporizers, edible products, capsules, and oils. In 2006, Dr. Donald Taskin at the University of California at Los Angeles conducted the largest case-controlled study to investigate the effects between marijuana and legal tobacco. The study showed smoking marijuana was not associated
It is a synthetic form of THC that is responsible for marijuana’s “high.” It can take over an hour to take effect, whereas smoked marijuana is effective almost immediately. Patients who suffer from nausea also have trouble keeping pills down. It is also reported that the dosage is hard to control and may not have any effect on the patient taking the pill. In addition, the cost of Marinol can cost three to five times more than a comparable dose of medical …show more content…
The United States is in somewhat of a growing painkiller abuse “crisis.” Prescription drugs have become a leading cause of accidental death in the United States. Overdose deaths from prescription painkillers have gone up 118 percent between 1999 and 2011. According to the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC), there were 22,767 drug overdoses related to pharmaceuticals in 2013 and of those 22,767 overdoes 16,235 involved opioid analgesics, also known as prescription painkillers. As you can see there is a current problem with painkillers, and if medical marijuana can reduce overdoses by twenty-five percent in each state it is a step in the right direction to end the painkiller “crisis.” Some readers may challenge my view by insisting that smoking marijuana is just as damaging to the body as tobacco. However, when the issue is fully examined on all sides there are a variety of different ways to consume marijuana that don’t involve the irritants found in smoke such as vaporizers, edible products, capsules, and oils. In 2006, Dr. Donald Taskin at the University of California at Los Angeles conducted the largest case-controlled study to investigate the effects between marijuana and legal tobacco. The study showed smoking marijuana was not associated