Ethan Nadelmann Marijuana

Legalizing marijuana is crucial to the medical field because many patients cannot use this marvelous plant to relieve their pain. This plant can help patients with multiple sclerosis, nausea from cancer chemotherapy, HIV, nerve pain, and seizure disorders. Many patients must go behind the doctors back and consume cannabis or give it to a loved one to relieve their pain. Only twenty-nine states have allowed the use of medical marijuana. Furthermore, that means that twenty-two states do not allow the usage of any form of Cannabis. Marijuana should be an all-around legal

Medical marijuana has been one of the most controversial topics in politics for years regardings its legalization and any possible benefits. Marijuana is commonly referred to as the “gateway drug” and has been thought to be what causes the downfall of our youth in today’s society. This has caused Marijuana to earn a bad reputation due to the immense surrounding propaganda and bias opinions. Cannabis is the scientific name of the plant which is absolutely natural and free of chemicals, but the psychoactive components in the plant has been proven to be of medical use. If medical marijuana is prescribed correctly it has the potential to help thousands of patients due to the variety of benefits it can medically provide. Medical Marijuana should

The use of medical marijuana (slang: Acapulco gold, ace, bhang, cannabis, hash, dope, ganja, grass, weed, hashish oil, hemp, home-grown, honey oil, indica, Jamaican roach, sativa, sinse, sinsemilla, tea, weed oil) has a been a major topic of debate for countless years. People all around the United States have seen propaganda of some sort regarding the legalization of marijuana. For example, with the ongoing discussion of legalization throughout the states, it’s abruptly mentioned in the news, everyday conversations, school topics for debate, and within stories of social media. In the article, “Is marijuana prohibition coming to an end”, Michelle Johnson a North Carolina journalist, states “Legalizing marijuana for a medical or recreational

The use of marijuana for medicinal purposes is a long-standing controversy. For centuries marijuana was prescribed to alleviate symptoms associated with a variety of illnesses. Anti-medical marijuana sentiments began with the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937. In 1970, the Controlled Substances Act banned the use of marijuana completely, categorizing it as a drug with no medicinal value, high abuse rates, and detrimental health effects (http://www.farmacy.org/prop215/apha.html). Since 1996, numerous states including California, Alaska, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon and Washington have passed medical marijuana initiatives supporting the right to prescribe marijuana for seriously or terminally ill patients (http://www.marihemp.com/marimed.html). The American Public Health Association and the Institute of Medicine represent two organizations that have recently researched and endorsed advancements in the study of medical marijuana. Both groups support the use of marijuana for specific treatments, such as reducing nausea in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy, stimulating the appetites of AIDS victims, and limiting spasticity in MS patients.

The FDA has a specific process to see how the joint medical and scientific communities determine whether drugs can be considered safe and effective as medicine, and Marijuana hasn’t been approved as of yet. The U.S government also insists that the ones who support the legalization of Marijuana, as the medical marijuana “angle” is just a side story to get the whole drug legalized for recreation use. The countries, such as Amsterdam, in which Marijuana is legal, have no produced evidence that Marijuana acts as a medicine.

The prison industrial complex obviously has an incentive to keep marijuana illegal. Their strength in numbers allows for a tremendous political influence from a large voting block with massive lobbying power. For example, CNBC found that there are nearly 800,000 people working within the prison industry, more than the U.S. auto industry. That figure doesn’t include all of the other sectors associated with the prison industrial complex such as lawyers, police officers, etc. The bureaucracy within the criminal justice

Cannabis is the most hated but yet very beneficial drug in the world. The United States has had strict laws against the use and distribution of marijuana since 1937. (The Union, Brett Harvey) Federal and state laws on medicinal marijuana are very different from each other. Cannabis has a lot of health benefits, this is the reason California was the first state to legalize it for medicinal purposes. (How weed won the west, Kevin Booth) People in America have been getting arrested for the use and possession of marijuana since it was outlawed. Charlie Lynch was one of those people in 2008. (Lynching Charlie Lynch, Rick Ray) I believe medical marijuana should be a legally taxed substance in the United States.

Marijuana is a controversial substance. It is considered a schedule 1 drug by the DEA but it is still legalized in 4 states for recreational purpose which include Colorado, Washington, Alaska and Oregon. Laws against the use, possession and cultivation of this plant are different in different parts of the world. People have been debating about its advantages and its disadvantages for many years. There are a lot of myths about marijuana and very few seem to be true. Most of the people know very less about this so they tend to go with all the ideas that the society has about it. It has a potential to play a significant role in the economic development of a country and lower the crime rates.

The whole topic on whether marijuana usage should be legal or not has been a hot debate topic for quite a while now. The use of marijuana has become even more popular, mostly with the younger generations. Many people fought on how it could be useful those who are sick in America and that need medications that could maybe help calm their disease and make it possible to overcome. Currently, you can legally smoke marijuana without a doctors note in 9 states and use medical marijuana in 29 states. 64% of Americans favor legalization, and even a majority of Republicans back it as well. (Robinson)

Doctors that push for the legalization of medical marijuana have some valid points worth looking at. If medical cannabis can help a sick and dying cancer patients feel better long enough to eat, then it is hard to argue that medical cannabis does not have a meaningful purpose in treating patients. Healthcare professionals in states where marijuana is legal, may prescribe the drug in order to help certain patients deal with pain, or as a sleep aid for those who struggle with insomnia. The drug is extremely effective at “promoting weight gain, controlling nausea, palliating peripheral neuropathy, and reducing muscle spasticity” (Tuyp, 2014, p. 592). The issue is most users that consume cannabis, use it for recreational purposes, and never see a medical physician about their individual use.

The Drug Enforcement Administration situations on fighting to legalize “medical” marijuana are based on two proposals: the scientific field views marijuana as a treatment while the DEA targets sick and dying people using the drug. Neither suggestion is true, science proved it is not medicine and it is not safe to use. The DEA targets on criminal trafficking and not the sick and dying. In 1970 congress authorized laws against marijuana based on that there is no logically proven medical value. Like the Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for authorizing drugs safe an effective medicine has declined to approve smoked marijuana for any circumstance or disease.

Medical Marijuana is a very controversial topic amongst the human population. Some say Marijuana is a drug and people who use Marijuana are criminals. On the other side of the argument there is: Marijuana is a plant, and it is grown to be used for medicinal purposes. Whichever side of the argument you are on, there is no denying that Medical Marijuana has been a hot topic for discussion in the last five years. Personally I believe the reasons for Medical Marijuana can help with Cancer,Anxiety it is way better then over the counter drug also helps with seizures, It is Helping with Depression and it Stimulate appetite (we know because of the munchies) the stats have increased with years and the strands have gotten better. The tread rather than some pre-teens who want to get high is only the charts for the medical use only not the street trends of it. Since Medical Marijuana has been around for

Because of how so many of us look at medical marijuana, we make it really hard for families who need access to these medicines. Time and time again, family after family will have to give up everything they have so they can move to a state that allows them access to the medicine their children could not survive without. Veterans who come back broken from the wars are given prescription after prescription that turns them into zombies instead of something, that actually is known to treat anxiety, depression, and PTSD symptoms, all because it comes from a plant some people have a negative opinion

Citizens and government officials have been debating on this topic for a very long time. I think too successfully develop an argument for the topic of medical marijuana, you must first figure out the issue of the subject matter and I believe that one of the issues that surrounds marijuana is the Food and Drug Administration. Many think that the FDA should be the ones who approve of marijuana and should make the decision on if it has benefits for medical use. The problem with that is that the federal rules that the FDA has to follow makes it difficult for them to take on this problem. This also puts doctors in a tough spot and they worry about legal troubles that they

The Government proclaims there is no therapeutic value in the medicinal use of marijuana, but they do not have hard evidence to prove it (Grinspoon 46). Ira Glasser, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, (at a congressional forum) expressed: “the government has demonized all drug use without differentiation and has systematically and hysterically resisted science.”(Koch 714) Possibly if the two “sides” would work together an agreement could be established concerning procedures for further development and treatment. Marijuana has eased the pain of chemotherapy, severe muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, weight-loss due to the AIDS virus, and other problems (www.abcnews.go.com/medmj990317.html).