Is Medical Marijuana Useful?
People have had an altercation about the pros and cons of medical marijuana like whether it's safe or what does it help? Or how it affects the human body. In this topic there are a lot of pros that make sense and support the fact that marijuana should be legalized in every state of the United States. Medical marijuana has been a controversial topic for ages asking all kinds of questions about how it effects anything and everything. Did you know out of the 50 states in the United States only 23 states are legalized for medical marijuana?
It all started in 1996. California was the first state to be legalized for medical marijuana. There was one man responsible for having the drive to push for legalizing marijuana …show more content…
One of these diseases that could be helped by medical marijuana is Multiple Sclerosis (a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord) Patients with this disease experience fatigue, dizziness, blurred vision, numbness, slurred speech, mood swings and many more symptoms. Symptoms that medical marijuana could help in M.S are nerve pain, overactive bladder, stiffness or uncontrolled muscle movements and spasticity. (King, Mary E. "Medical Marijuana: Hype or Hope?" Momentum Aug. 2014: 28-35. Print.) Another disease that symptoms could be helped by medical marijuana is Cancer. A number of small studies of smoked marijuana found that it can be helpful in treating nausea and vomiting from cancer chemotherapy. A few studies have found that inhaled (smoked or vaporized) marijuana can be helpful treatment of pain caused by damaged nerves. More recently, scientists reported that THC and other cannabinoids, slow growth and/or cause death in certain types of cancer cells growing in laboratory dishes. ("Marijuana and Cancer." Marijuana and Cancer. N.p., 3 Apr. 2015. Web. 04 Feb. …show more content…
However, most people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, "harder" substances.. Alcohol and nicotine also prime the brain for a heightened response to other drugs and are, like marijuana, also typically used before a person progresses to other, more harmful substances. A person who has an addiction to nicotine or alcohol could grow up and use hard drugs such as cocaine, meth and/or heroin. Therefore, marijuana is not necessarily a gateway drug more or less than things such as alcohol and nicotine that are in fact legalized
People have had an altercation about the pros and cons of medical marijuana like whether it's safe or what does it help? Or how it affects the human body. In this topic there are a lot of pros that make sense and support the fact that marijuana should be legalized in every state of the United States. Medical marijuana has been a controversial topic for ages asking all kinds of questions about how it effects anything and everything. Did you know out of the 50 states in the United States only 23 states are legalized for medical marijuana?
It all started in 1996. California was the first state to be legalized for medical marijuana. There was one man responsible for having the drive to push for legalizing marijuana …show more content…
One of these diseases that could be helped by medical marijuana is Multiple Sclerosis (a chronic, typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord) Patients with this disease experience fatigue, dizziness, blurred vision, numbness, slurred speech, mood swings and many more symptoms. Symptoms that medical marijuana could help in M.S are nerve pain, overactive bladder, stiffness or uncontrolled muscle movements and spasticity. (King, Mary E. "Medical Marijuana: Hype or Hope?" Momentum Aug. 2014: 28-35. Print.) Another disease that symptoms could be helped by medical marijuana is Cancer. A number of small studies of smoked marijuana found that it can be helpful in treating nausea and vomiting from cancer chemotherapy. A few studies have found that inhaled (smoked or vaporized) marijuana can be helpful treatment of pain caused by damaged nerves. More recently, scientists reported that THC and other cannabinoids, slow growth and/or cause death in certain types of cancer cells growing in laboratory dishes. ("Marijuana and Cancer." Marijuana and Cancer. N.p., 3 Apr. 2015. Web. 04 Feb. …show more content…
However, most people who use marijuana do not go on to use other, "harder" substances.. Alcohol and nicotine also prime the brain for a heightened response to other drugs and are, like marijuana, also typically used before a person progresses to other, more harmful substances. A person who has an addiction to nicotine or alcohol could grow up and use hard drugs such as cocaine, meth and/or heroin. Therefore, marijuana is not necessarily a gateway drug more or less than things such as alcohol and nicotine that are in fact legalized