Benefits Of Medical Marijuana

Marijuana and its medical benefits have been a controversial topic for years. Medical marijuana can help cure most diseases, but other people believe that marijuana has no medical benefits and should remain illegal. I believe that medical marijuana should be legalized on the state and federal level because it’s a medicine that helps people with debilitating diseases, there are many ways to consume marijuana, keeps good people from going to jail, and if taxed would add massive amounts of revenue back in the our economy. This medicine has helped with the treatment of “muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, nausea from cancer chemotherapy, poor appetite and weight loss caused by chronic illness, such as HIV, or nerve pain, and seizure disorders”.
The reason for using butter or oil is that the active ingredients in the marijuana bond with the fatty molecules unlike water that has no fat to it. Next marijuana can be turned into hash oil (also known as BHO) using a solvent such as butane or pure drinking alcohol such as Everclear. There is a very in depth process that goes into making this type of product making it more expensive than other marijuana products. This can be consumed using an oil rig that heats the BHO to the vaporization point which prevents from the destruction of any of the active chemicals in the product. With BHO the effects are felt almost instantly providing relief to patients when needed. Marijuana can also be vaporized in a vaporizer which again prevents the destruction of the active chemicals by keeping the marijuana under the combustion point. “Marijuana can also be made into tinctures and tonics. They can be applied to the skin, consumed directly, or added to food. These tinctures take as long as edibles to provide relief but last longer than other forms of consumption”. All of these ways of consumption are healthy for the user and can reduce cancer cells over time. If none of these ways appeal to the patient then they can always smoke there medicine through a pipe, bong, joint, or
If this is the estimated savings if marijuana is fully legalized then imagine how much would be saved if only medical marijuana was legalized even if medical marijuana counted for only three percent of this, than that would still be 411 million dollars that the US would be saving a year. “That would amount to 1.31 dollars per person in the US” . “This savings is coming from a lesser need of law enforcement, the taxation of the medicine, and the people that are purchasing the product”. Also thousands of jobs would be created in a time that we need jobs in our