Medical Marijuana Persuasive Speech

If you could prevent a person from suffering in all forms would you? Medical Marijuana could help patients suffering from various illness, such as Cancer and epilepsy being some of the harshest diseases. If a child suffering from constant hourly seizures was to be treated with medical marijuana they could possibly stop the seizures all together but at the very least would reduce them significantly, to only two or three times per month. Due to the new medical advances cannabis sativa has been proven a medical miracle for epilepsy patients across the world. With the new medical breakthrough of Charlotte’s Web, a strain of cannabis sativa that is grown and produced by five brothers in Colorado, where cannabis sativa is legal. They grow and dispense it through an organization named Realm of Caring. This particular strain of cannabis is extremely low in THC or tetrahydrocannabinol. This compound in found in all strains of cannabis sativa to some degree and it’s what produces cannabis sativa’s psychoactive effects. And high in CBD or cannabinol, a compound in cannabis sativa that reduces seizures in people suffering from certain types of epilepsy. Cannabis sativa can be grown and medical research done legally in Colorado and it’s attracting people from across the country to have access to this strain of cannabis sativa for their children with this …show more content…
et al., where chronic administration of CBD to both epileptic patients and healthy volunteers proved to be extremely important, as the results were nothing less than promising. “The study concludes that CBD had a beneficial effect in patients suffering from secondary generalized epilepsy with temporal focus who did not benefit from known antiepileptic drugs.” (M) In study after study the compounds that make up the cannabis plant have proven to be extremely beneficial to epileptic patients, from help keep their seizures to a minimum to also helping with the pain caused by the damage to their