Marijuana: Legality in the Making
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Although marijuana is illegal because of the health risks that accompany its use, the use of marijuana for therapeutic treatments revive an age-old argument for its legality. Several of the arguments against the possible legality of marijuana are based on old myths and can be disproved with actual facts and evidence. Regardless of the good things about marijuana, there are some risks, as with other prescription drugs.
Although marijuana is illegal because of the health risks that accompany its use, the use of marijuana for therapeutic treatments revive an age-old argument for its legality. Several of the arguments against the possible legality of marijuana are based on old myths and can be disproved with actual facts and evidence. Regardless of the good things about marijuana, there are some risks, as with other prescription drugs. Marijuana should become legal because it treats the nausea and vomiting caused by anticancer drugs and chemotherapeutic agents that are used by cancer patients, is an antiasthmatic, helps AIDS patients gain weight after the weight-loss that they experience during treatment, and is not as addictive as people think.
Nausea and Vomiting
Marijuana has some chemicals that can treat the nausea and vomiting that several cancer patients experience when treating their disease. This develops from the anticancer drugs and chemotherapeutic agents that are put into their body. The nausea and vomiting that marijuana treats has not been researched enough to find out its cause, it has been proven to work perfectly with very few flaws. Marijuana can be researched more to reveal more treatments for deadly diseases, and can help in lowering the death toll in not only America, but the rest of the world. If marijuana remains illegal, the tests that bring in more hidden facts about marijuana might decrease over time, and the dozens of possible cures to millions of diseases may never be found. Antiasthmatic drugs are prescription medicines that “treat and prevent asthma attacks.” People with asthma sometimes smoke marijuana in order to recover from recent asthma attacks and to prevent future attacks. The use of marijuana as an antiasthmatic began in India, just like other therapeutical treatments to comment ailments. Should the US trust marijuana as a possible ingredient in new and more effective antiasthmatic drugs, the millions of people in the world that have asthma will be able to further prevent their unexpected attacks, and their lives will be prolonged.
Treating Effects of AIDS Treatments
“Three years ago, I lost 40 pounds due to AIDS wasting syndrome. I since regained that 40 pounds thanks to smoked marijuana,” said Kiyoshi Kiromiya, an AIDs patient. Kiyoshi, like hundreds of other AIDs, has found that smoking marijuana helps gain lost wait from AIDS treatments. This is believed to be caused by delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol, a compound that has already been made into a pill form. The difference between the pills and the actual smoked marijuana is that the patient has complete control over how much they smoke, unlike when they take the pills because the doctor decides how many they have to take at what time. Although a doctor may have a medical degree, a patient can actually feel what is going on in their body, and has a slight idea of how to treat it.
Addictiveness
A common argument that was brought up during the deciding of the illegality of marijuana was its addictiveness. One might say that marijuana is highly addictive like most other drugs and requires the help of a skilled and trained professional in order to break the addiction. This statement is merely a myth. Marijuana is a completely natural plant. Based on an online article about the real facts about marijuana, less than one percent of the American population smokes marijuana on a daily basis. A smaller minority than those who smoke marijuana on a daily basis actually gain a dependence on marijuana. Even those who smoke marijuana frequently can stop at ease. Those who actually experience a feeling of withdrawal after quitting the smoking of marijuana experience very minor symptoms.
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Good article!
Legalize marijuana stop putting 980,000 people away in jail a year for marijuana(in the United States). 8/9 of them being for poss. Most of them the future of America , our children. For a drug that cannot kill you due to its toxicology which is 10,000 less than that of alcohols. Also not to mention Cannabidol’s cancer fighting , asthma curing , diabieties preventing and many other disease’s its helped to prevent and cure(over 50) and tetrahydrocannabinol which has helped fighting brain tumors and many other illnesses. Also the scientific research given states that they have never found a single person to have obtained lung cancer solely from marijuana smoke due to Tetrahydrocannabiol and Cannabidol’s cancer fighting properties. I am requesting that this website do a blog on this topic because a lot of good hard-working Americans’ lives are being ruined by the Federal Justice System because they’re practicing Freedom of choice something which we at once believed to fight beside for in this country. So legalize , tax , repair lives and educate! Dont imprison which creates , 1 extreme disprespect of law enforcement and government , 2 gives money to gang’s and potentially organized crime generally more often than regular people due to illegality , 3 the money you could make off of this drug and medicine is alot better than the hundreds of billions were losing annualy to keep it illegal , 4 to help reduce prison population , 5 to help repair the economy by putting normally otherwise law abiding American’s into prison who could be getting their education or working (also keep in mind there is no JOB or EDUCATION if youve been arrested in some states for trafficking) and theres many more reasons to legalize this for the most part harmless even healthy drug. Marijuana prohibition started from racism and greed and followed by the lobbyist’s of the alcohol , tobacco , paper , pharmacuitical and even our police (police overworked = overpaid) industries and agencies. Why are we going to keep incarcerating our children , parents , teachers , police , congressmen and everyone in our society for somthing 10,000 less harmful than the drug currently legal! And for what? Money that our already overly rich pharmaceatical industry has (a pill for everything today , pills that mind you are much more dangerous than marijuana that we entrust to our children). So stop talking you ignorant people who dont know the entire story. Or if your a lobbyist here who has lobbied against it knowingly I must tell you to go to hell because of you ive been arrested for providing medicine to cancer patients in my area. God bless America land of the free, Legalize marijuana! Visit http://www.norml.com or marijuanapolicyproject.com to make a donation or to find more about this topic.de for in this country. Also do you really think we have the money or the resources to be spending 10 billion a month and arresting that many people during the closest thing we’ve had to a depression since the 30’s? Especially considering the above facts? Look it up. P.S. you people who think it changes you sex are really misinformed. If it did these things theyd be running up statistics and death tolls not giving outragious lies and gross exhaterations as well as telling you its bad. Its illegal because lobbyist’s are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars sometimes millions to lobby against it in the above areas.
Mr.Obama hear our cries and leagalize