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Medicinal Legalization of Marijuana
For many years now, there has been great controversy surrounding the illegal drug marijuana. Its widespread use since the Vietnam War has caused many people to speak for and against marijuana and its uses. However, in the recent past, a completely new controversy has arisen surrounding the use of marijuana: its medical benefits. After years of give and take, it is time for us to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. This is not the kind of use a common drug addict would seek, but rather a drug to comfort for terminally or critically ill people.
In the past when "old-time" doctors prescribed a variety of medicines for ailments, drugs of all sorts were accepted. However, in …show more content…
(Terkel 79). An unfortunate consequence of Reagan 's war was that it did not discriminate between medical marijuana and other drug usage, which showed a continued ignorance toward marijuana 's possible benefits.
In 1989, President Bush appointed a "drug czar" who suggested that if the war on drugs was stepped up, drug use could be cut in half. President Bush continued a full-fledged war on drugs that continues to this day. (Terkel 104).
Now the major critics of marijuana legalization for medical purposes are doctors and medical organizations who point to its negative affects on the body. They have found some legitimate evidence that marijuana can have negative affects on the body and the mental stability of the user. However, this point could be used to fight the use of many drugs that have negative side affects. It is common knowledge that chemotherapy causes weakness, nausea, and the killing of good as well as bad cells; yet it is still an accepted method to control cancer. In the field of medicine, it is necessary to overlook some negative side effects in order to create new types of medicine and treatments. This is one of the points that those whom support the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes focus …show more content…
The hard work of interest groups and those in the medical profession who support medical marijuana usage is a necessary and strong step toward getting new research done and influencing Congressmen, Justices and other members of the government. The key here is that medical marijuana should be taken seriously and not dismissed as an attempt to overturn the efforts of governmental agencies, to win the war on drugs. We must stop the stereotyping of marijuana as a "bad" drug, and start to consider its vast possibility as a medical tool. Let us stop using the war on drugs as an excuse to ignore the future of medical marijuana, and instead wage a new war against
Medicinal Legalization of Marijuana
For many years now, there has been great controversy surrounding the illegal drug marijuana. Its widespread use since the Vietnam War has caused many people to speak for and against marijuana and its uses. However, in the recent past, a completely new controversy has arisen surrounding the use of marijuana: its medical benefits. After years of give and take, it is time for us to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. This is not the kind of use a common drug addict would seek, but rather a drug to comfort for terminally or critically ill people.
In the past when "old-time" doctors prescribed a variety of medicines for ailments, drugs of all sorts were accepted. However, in …show more content…
(Terkel 79). An unfortunate consequence of Reagan 's war was that it did not discriminate between medical marijuana and other drug usage, which showed a continued ignorance toward marijuana 's possible benefits.
In 1989, President Bush appointed a "drug czar" who suggested that if the war on drugs was stepped up, drug use could be cut in half. President Bush continued a full-fledged war on drugs that continues to this day. (Terkel 104).
Now the major critics of marijuana legalization for medical purposes are doctors and medical organizations who point to its negative affects on the body. They have found some legitimate evidence that marijuana can have negative affects on the body and the mental stability of the user. However, this point could be used to fight the use of many drugs that have negative side affects. It is common knowledge that chemotherapy causes weakness, nausea, and the killing of good as well as bad cells; yet it is still an accepted method to control cancer. In the field of medicine, it is necessary to overlook some negative side effects in order to create new types of medicine and treatments. This is one of the points that those whom support the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes focus …show more content…
The hard work of interest groups and those in the medical profession who support medical marijuana usage is a necessary and strong step toward getting new research done and influencing Congressmen, Justices and other members of the government. The key here is that medical marijuana should be taken seriously and not dismissed as an attempt to overturn the efforts of governmental agencies, to win the war on drugs. We must stop the stereotyping of marijuana as a "bad" drug, and start to consider its vast possibility as a medical tool. Let us stop using the war on drugs as an excuse to ignore the future of medical marijuana, and instead wage a new war against