Marijuana Legalization Analysis

Marijuana legalization is one of the biggest debates between the public and lawmakers. In the article, “Patients struggle to get medical marijuana in New York” written by David Robinson and Patti Singer on February 2, 2016. This article describes how people need an immediate attention to deal with legalizing marijuana since it is an important problem in the medical field. It should be legalized for the benefit of those people who are suffering with severe medical illness; such as, seizure, epilepsy, cancer, and some other diseases. Also, these people cannot solve their health problem itself. For instance, most of the people will not use a prescribed medication which would deal with severe problems; it leads to more discrimination due to public
We can also relate back to the book on page 105 where it mentions the three required categories for a drug to be considered nonprescription and on page 119 under the subheading: drug legalization debate where its debated whether drugs should be considered legalized or abused. In my opinion, marijuana is the most highly abused drug in the United States. It should not be legalized because I do not believe most people need it. Even though, marijuana can help seizure patients, ADHD children, epilepsy, neuropathy, and Huntington’s disease, it should not be legalized because of the forms of smoke and legalizing may encourage using it, which will affect the health of a person’s surroundings. I highly recommend marijuana should be illegal because as a mother and a wife, I would not refer my son or my upcoming generation to face any medical condition or learning disabilities because of marijuana use. Personally, I believe that if parents are addicted to drugs, there are more chances for their family members to be a drug