The Great Debate: Medical Marijuana, Is It Ethical?

Cannabis or typically referred to as marijuana is a drug that contains many other chemicals some are like a penicillin. Marijuana helps with many illnesses and diseases such as muscle spasms, nausea chemotherapy, weight loss from HIV, seizures, and

Marijuana has many medical purposes also. The cannabis extract was available as a medicine legally in this country until 1937, and was sold as a nerve tonic-but mankind has been using cannabis medicines much longer than that. Marijuana appears in almost every known book of medicine written by ancient scholars and wise men. It is usually ranked among the top medicines, called 'panaceas', a word which means 'cure-all'. The list of diseases which cannabis can be used for includes: multiple sclerosis, cancer treatment, AIDS (and AIDS treatment), glaucoma, depression, epilepsy, migraine headaches, asthma, pruritis, sclerodoma, severe pain, and dystonia. This list does not even consider the other medicines which can be made out of marijuana-these are just some of the illnesses for which people smoke or eat whole marijuana today. There are over 60 chemicals in marijuana which may have medical uses. It is relatively easy to extract these into food or beverage, or into some sort of lotion, using butter, fat, oil, or alcohol. One chemical, cannabinol, may be useful to help people who cannot sleep.

The list of diseases which cannabis can be used for includes, but is not restricted to: multiple sclerosis, cancer treatment, AIDS (and AIDS treatment), glaucoma, depression, epilepsy, migraine headaches, asthma, pruritis, sclerodoma, erectile dysfunction, severe pain, and dystonia. There are over 60 chemicals in marijuana which may have medical uses. It is comparatively comfortable to pull these into food or beverage, or into some sort of lotion, using butter, fat, oil, or intoxicant. I chemical, cannabinol, may be useful to facilitate people who cannot catch some Z's.tch some Z's. Another is taken from premature buds and is called cannabidiolic acid. It is a potent germicide. Marijuana dissolved in rubbing alcohol helps people with the skin disease, herpes control their sores, and a salve like this was one of the earliest medical uses for marijuana. The leaves were at one time used in bandages and a slowing down non-psychoactive herbal tea can be hit from small cannabis stems.

The legalization of marijuana in other states has increased access to and acceptability of this drug for both medicinal and recreational purposes. In the absence of well-designed research and FDA approval, this creates unique challenges for both practitioners and regulators alike. Doctors are being pressured to recommend medical marijuana based off of the requests of the users. The regulations that have been put on marijuana are extremely loose fitting and hard to control

The topic of legalizing marijuana has been on the fore front of controversial issues ever since marijuana, cannabis, was brought into the United States from Mexico in the early 1920s. Twenty-four states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical marijuana use in the past two decades, however, only four of those states, Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, and Washington, have passed the law legalizing recreational marijuana use. Some states have already enacted laws that allowed for the possession of marijuana to such individuals that received a written prescription from their doctors. Federal law, however, has continued to prohibit doctors from writing patients a marijuana prescription, meaning

Under Federal law, only FDA-approved medications are legal to prescribe—and marijuana is not one of those approved medications. Still, more than a dozen States have approved its use to alleviate a variety of symptoms. Many of marijuana’s effects (including its psychoactive or mind-altering properties) stem from an ingredient called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), which resembles a chemical that the body and brain make naturally. THC attaches to specialized proteins, called cannabinoid receptors (CBRs), to which the body’s natural chemicals normally bind. Along with THC, the marijuana plant contains over 400 other chemical compounds, including other cannabinoids that may be biologically active and vary from plant to plant. This makes it difficult to consider its use as a medicine even though some of marijuana’s specific ingredients may offer benefits.

In discussions of owning a medical marijuana establishment, one controversial issue has been whether or not the owners of these businesses need to release their identities to the public. On one hand, a District Court judge in Northern Nevada argues “that the city must disclose the owners’ identities under the Nevada Public Records Act (Scheid, 2017).” The Public Records Act was established to ensure that government documents are readily available to the public. Moreover, under NRS §239.001 (1),(4) provides that the purpose of the chapter is to “foster democratic principles by providing members of the public with access to inspect and copy public books and records to the extent permitted by law.” Essentially, indicating that the public has

The debate regarding whether medical marijuana should be legalized or not have been going for a long time. It’s one of the most discuses topic in the U.S now. Many have say that it should be legal because it has medicinal benefit while other say that it should be illegal because of the potential abuse. This topic has had many aspects that have to be taken into account when making a big decision whether it should be legalized or not.

Marijuana, this plant brings up a lot of controversy. After the legalization of medical marijuana in California, it seems like the legalization is the biggest topic up for debate. Around the world, there are people are against it and many who strongly support the legalization. Personally, I am for the use of medical marijuana. There are more pro’s then con’s when it comes to using marijuana as a medicine. This brings up the question, are you for or against the use of medical marijuana?

In the 1970’s when the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) spread through the 1980s, patients found that marijuana relieved most of their symptoms associated with AIDS. In 1999, an IOM report described the scientific and clinical basis for supporting medical marijuana use. The media reported an increasing amount of medical marijuana users subjected to prosecution during this period. These events revitalized the media’s attention and the public demand for medical access. In spite of its illegal status at the federal level, cannabis was reintroduced into California medical field in 1996; by popular vote and legislative acts. For all nurses and health care providers it is an ethical responsibility to educate your patients to help

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There is already a price being paid for marijuana in arrest costs, it would be illogical to not take advantage of being able to make money instead. Peter Wong wrote “Marijuana legalization: Pros and cons” for

Marijuana is one of the most used drugs in the world. It is illegal because it has been assumed to be a gateway drug upon us. A gateway drug, is a type of drug that leads the users of one drug, (the gateway drug), to other drugs that are extremely addictive and can kill such as Methamphetamine, Heroin, and Shrooms, LSD, etc. Just because gateway drugs lead the users of them into addictive drugs, does not always mean that the gateway drug itself, (Marijuana) is addictive. Marijuana is infact, non-addictive. But it can still lead to abuse if used at the wrong time or in the wrong place such as driving or in a state where it is not legal.

The use of cannabis toward medicine should not be shocking to anyone, since it has been around for centuries. As a matter of fact, it has been under medicinal aid for an estimated 5,000 years. Western medicine truly grasped marijuana’s medicinal abilities in the 1850’s. Infact, doctors documented over one hundred papers about how marijuana helped numerous disorders, such as nausea, glaucoma, movement disorders, pain relief, depression, and anxiety. It also helps cancer patients and those with HIV or Aids. Currently, many American patients have access to marijuana use so that they can have effective treatments for their illnesses. Medical marijuana use is achievable because

"Marijuana is the most widely used illegal controlled substance in the world. Although the drug has been illegal in the United States since the 1930s, an estimated 40.6 percent of the U.S. population over twelve years of age has tried it at least once."("Marijuana What Kind of Drug is it" par. One) Cavillations have been farming Marijuana for centuries best explained by this quote "In 1997, a hemp rope dating back to 26,900 BC was found in Czechoslovakia, making it the oldest known object to be associated with cannabis. Since that time, hemp has played an important role in humanity’s development. For thousands of years marijuana was not only legal, but an important crop among cultures throughout history, and held commercial, medicinal, and spiritual value."(Hill, par 1). So why is it not allowed now, well people have observed some side effects. For starters, it can be the user can experience a loss of motor control and can have difficulty concentrating and it slows down the brain this can be most dangerous when operating a vehicle. However, marijuana is safer than most of the substances that are legal today and it actually, helps with diseases. Marijuana has many helpful benefits such as being able to help with illnesses such as cancer among other things, increasing creativity for all creative needs such as painting or writing, and decreasing the amount of painkiller and opioid addiction.