Medical Marijuana Case Study
THE STUDY OF AND THE EFFECTS OF MEDICAL MARIJUANA
It was once thought to be one of the most dangerous illegal drugs on the planet, polarizing the public’s opinion. In today’s world people’s opinion have swayed a bit for medical reasons specifically.
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug used on the planet. For decades the global supply of the marijuana was controlled by criminals, but now it has become a legal industry worth billions of dollars. It is roughly a 120 billion dollar industry, used by 167 million people worldwide. Marijuana is a psychoactive plant commonly known as pot, grass, weed or cannabis to a variety of different people. Many people have their different views about the worth of the plant in society, one side trying …show more content…
Meaning he was dying from starvation, he begins to smoke marijuana which is known to stimulate appetite giving users a term called the “The Munches”. The marijuana keeps the patient Greg eating while better life saving drugs where being developed. In 1996 California passed proposition 215, a state law allowing doctors to recommend marijuana to patients.
Now the doctor can’t dispense it, he can’t write a prescription for it because the pharmacy doesn’t carry it. All the doctor can do is indicate that in his or her considered opinion this patient would profit from using marijuana. Once the patient has a doctor’s recommendation they can legally grow their own or purchase marijuana from a dispensary. Also like everything else marijuana is subject to a sales tax. California has up to 400 thousand medical marijuana patients and growing every day.
Serving these patients are about 2100 dispensary’s, that’s more medical marijuana dispensaries than the states Starbucks, Mc Donald’s and Seven Elevens combined. But they’re not smoking your regular street marijuana, they examine the marijuana to see if it meets the high standards needed to qualify it as …show more content…
MAPS in conjunction with the California branch of National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, worked between 1993 and 2009 to sponsor or research into the effects of vaporizers and water-pipes in filtering the fumes of inhaled marijuana.
Their goal was to determine if water-pipes or vaporizers could reduce the health risk of smoking marijuana. MAPS is currently the only organization working to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of botanical marijuana as a prescription medicine for specific medical uses to the satisfaction of the U.S Food and Administration. MAPS’ efforts to initiate medical marijuana research have been hindered by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) since its inception in
It was once thought to be one of the most dangerous illegal drugs on the planet, polarizing the public’s opinion. In today’s world people’s opinion have swayed a bit for medical reasons specifically.
Marijuana is the most widely used illicit drug used on the planet. For decades the global supply of the marijuana was controlled by criminals, but now it has become a legal industry worth billions of dollars. It is roughly a 120 billion dollar industry, used by 167 million people worldwide. Marijuana is a psychoactive plant commonly known as pot, grass, weed or cannabis to a variety of different people. Many people have their different views about the worth of the plant in society, one side trying …show more content…
Meaning he was dying from starvation, he begins to smoke marijuana which is known to stimulate appetite giving users a term called the “The Munches”. The marijuana keeps the patient Greg eating while better life saving drugs where being developed. In 1996 California passed proposition 215, a state law allowing doctors to recommend marijuana to patients.
Now the doctor can’t dispense it, he can’t write a prescription for it because the pharmacy doesn’t carry it. All the doctor can do is indicate that in his or her considered opinion this patient would profit from using marijuana. Once the patient has a doctor’s recommendation they can legally grow their own or purchase marijuana from a dispensary. Also like everything else marijuana is subject to a sales tax. California has up to 400 thousand medical marijuana patients and growing every day.
Serving these patients are about 2100 dispensary’s, that’s more medical marijuana dispensaries than the states Starbucks, Mc Donald’s and Seven Elevens combined. But they’re not smoking your regular street marijuana, they examine the marijuana to see if it meets the high standards needed to qualify it as …show more content…
MAPS in conjunction with the California branch of National Organization to Reform Marijuana Laws, worked between 1993 and 2009 to sponsor or research into the effects of vaporizers and water-pipes in filtering the fumes of inhaled marijuana.
Their goal was to determine if water-pipes or vaporizers could reduce the health risk of smoking marijuana. MAPS is currently the only organization working to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of botanical marijuana as a prescription medicine for specific medical uses to the satisfaction of the U.S Food and Administration. MAPS’ efforts to initiate medical marijuana research have been hindered by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) since its inception in