The Benefits Of Legalization Of Marijuana
Legalizing marijuana would be extremely risky. It is highly feasible that doctors may take bribes from patients to prescribe the drug for recreational use. Which would make legalization very difficult to regulate because prescriptions would end up in the wrong hands. Legal marijuana may provide drug dealers with an easy opportunity to escape from prosecution for trafficking and dealing drugs. Marijuana could possibly be overused like many prescription drugs. Marijuana is also known to be a gateway drug. Therefore it would led people to try different drugs. Legalization of marijuana would inflict more chaos and crime than it would attempt to prevent. We do not know enough about it. Marijuana has not undergone any of the clinical trials necessary for the FDA’s approval. Inhaling smoke from a cigarette and from marijuana is no different. It still is smoke going into …show more content…
However marijuana does have many medicinal benefits including the following: improving the appetite in cancer and HIV patients, reducing muscle spasms associated multiple sclerosis, aids in crohn’s disease and epilepsy, and also helps alleviate eye pressure in glaucoma patients, there is no proof that marijuana is the most effective treatment. Other drugs are just as or more effective. THC, in the form of Marinol, Sativex, Nabilone, and Epidiolex is being used to treat these conditions. There is no need to legalize marijuana when you can benefit the same results without