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Pots For Drugs

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Manufacturing, sealing, and the use of marijuana, has been prohibited by Federal law for over 70 years. With new knowledge that potentially marijuana could have medicinal benefits, there has been a rise in the efforts to allocate the drug in become legal. Parents and doctors alike have been trying to use medical marijuana to treat children with certain medical conditions. Unfortunately, there is an insignificant amount of data on the effects it has when administered to children as part of treating illnesses. Managing the health of children with medical marijuana is not common, but it does happen. Use of the drug for alternative treatments for certain health conditions have been legalized by several states. Although treating children with the …show more content…

According to the “DEA/ Drug Scheduling” (n.d.) marijuana, is classified as a Schedule I drug, which means that the “substance, or chemicals, is defined as drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse”. In the United States marijuana happens to be one of the largest discussed and controversial topics today. The journal article “Pots for Tots: Children and Medical Marijuana”, goes into detail about various children who have befitted from the use of medical marijuana in the treatment of epilepsy and the controversy surrounding it. There are several that question the legality of the treatment, the problem is, very little research shows that alternative medicine can be safe and effective, in order it to be able to use for these purposes. Beaning that is the case, it is extremely challenging to gain federal approval for scientific study. Also in this article it discusses the unintentional exposer children can have, and the advocacy for the use of the drug for medicinal …show more content…

“While some experts caution that the effects of the drug on child development are unknown, others point out that the same is true for other medications used to fight the pain and nausea that are currently given to children with cancer, as well as for powerful antipsychotic drugs that are used in long-term treatment of childhood mental illness”. (Rollins, 2014) Many who start off being opposed to legalizing marijuana end up fighting for the sick children, in order for them to gain access to the drug, after viewing how it helps. While medical professionals wait for further evidence on the variety of illnesses marijuana can assist, the side effects that come along with the care, and the advantages of this drug may have, parents are organizing to educate and lobby governments to change the laws for marijuana’s medical purposes in

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