should marijuana be leaglized for medical use?

Answer 1

Marijuana actually has many helpful benefits toward diseases / sicknesses. Marijuana can reduce nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS. It can Reduce interlobular pressure, which alleviates the pain and slowing and sometimes even stopping the progress of glaucoma. Common side effects of chemotherapy are nausea, loss of appetite, and vomiting, all of which marijuana would help. It can limit muscle pain and relieve tremor nad unsteadiness of gait for multiple sclerosis patients. Marijuana can help prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. It can also alleviate chronic, often debilitating pain caused by myriad disorders and injuries. Each one of these applications have been deemed legitimate by at least one United States court, legislature, and/or government agency.

Answer 2

Why should we decriminalize or legalize marijuana?
As President Jimmy Carter acknowledged: "Penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to an individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against the possession of marijuana in private for personal use."

Marijuana prohibition needlessly destroys the lives and careers of literally hundreds of thousands of good, hard-working, productive citizens each year in this country. More than 700,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges last year, and more than 5 million Americans have been arrested for marijuana offenses in the past decade. Almost 90 percent of these arrests are for simple possession, not trafficking or sale. This is a misapplication of the criminal sanction that invites government into areas of our private lives that are inappropriate and wastes valuable law enforcement resources that should be focused on serious and violent crime.

Answer 3

I don't think so, more people are going to be like, "oh I'm severely depressed and I can't get out of this hole" and then the doctor will be like "okay, let me prescribe you some marijuana" especially if the doctor and the patient are chummy. Legalized marijuana is going to make a lot of people do ugly things for money.

Answer 4

I did an essay on this

, I think marijuana has potential to be legalized only for medical uses. The state of California passed a proposition in November of 1996, which states.” Proposition 215 permits patients to possess and use marijuana for medical purposes with a physician’s recommendation/prescription. Anyone familiar with pot knows about the "munchies." So, too, do people weak from AIDS and anorexia that use marijuana to put on needed weight. Cancer patients smoke pot to dispel the nausea they get from chemotherapy, and doctors recommend it for epilepsy, arthritis, migraines and glaucoma. Synthetic forms of THC such as Marinol are ineffective substitutes because they often put patients to sleep before they start to eat, which is the whole point. And administering a proper dosage is even easier: once they've smoked enough to have an appetite, or once their pain subsides, they put down the joint. The federal government should follow the lead of voters in Arizona and California and at least allow the medical use of marijuana.
This is a very special issue because there is much possibility to abuse the right to smoke marijuana for medical use.

Also, marijuana is no more of a drug than tobacco and alcohol. Tobacco kills more people and is much more addict than marijuana, yet tobacco is still a legal drug. Alcohol is involved in many more deaths than marijuana also. The question I ask then is why alcohol and tobacco are legal and regulated by the United States government and marijuana is not? Marijuana is a major part on the war on drugs and the government spends many of the tax payer’s money fighting a war which they cannot win. The government can make a substantial amount of money if taxes would put money on marijuana like there is on other substances. The war on drugs will only be won if we're willing to turn our country into a police state, and that is what these draconian laws are doing for us. Owing to a quirk in the law, someone's property can be forfeited even though he's been found innocent in a drug offense. Stiffer sentencing has meant jails overcrowded with drug offenders, forcing the early release of violent criminals - including murderers - to make room for guys who've been handed mandatory life terms without the possibility of parole for their "third strike." America is now the world's greatest jailor nation, with a prison population consisting overwhelmingly of drug offenders. On average, we sentence nonviolent drug offenders to five times more jail time than those convicted of manslaughter. Judges, disgusted with these injustices, are quitting the bench. When the severity of punishment is way out of proportion with the offense, the system is corrupt. It is quite clear from survey data that most people do not become physically dependent on marijuana. The majority use it as others use alcohol - to relax occasionally and to indulge a festive mood. How can a mild intoxicant, taken less than once a day by most users, be seen as a public threat? Even those who are "hooked", or psychologically dependent upon their habit, should not be penalized by the law. Some people find any compulsive and unproductive
behavior disgusting. But that is not a reason for outlawing it. Consider eating, many people develop compulsive habits about food. They talk about it frequently. They spend many of their waking hours anticipating, planning, obtaining, and consuming food. This may be unattractive. It certainly is not productive and it can be harmful if the "food addict" is overweight. But there are no laws to prevent food addiction. If Congress tried to forbid the eating of ice cream sundaes or cotton candy, many people would be outraged, others would simply laugh. The same sort of
argument is raised by some people with respect to marijuana. Even compulsive marijuana smoking by an adult is not so offensive that it injures neighbors or requires government intervention. The attempt to use the law to tell people what they may and may not consume at home is an arrogant invasion of personal privacy. Sometimes it is said that the law must protect the drug user from himself. The argument takes two forms. One has to do with the damage a drug may do to a person's health and
the other with the individual's power of self-control or freedom. First consider the health effects. By any reasonable standard, marijuana is a mild drug and as for overdosing, there is no scientifically valid evidence of
anyone dying of an overdose of marijuana smoke. Of course, it is possible to commit suicide by consuming large amounts of marijuana. But it is possible to die by eating too much salt. Salt is not illegal. Aspirin kills by overdose and that's legal. Many people die by drinking too much alcohol, an addictive drug. It too is legal. Why is marijuana considered more dangerous? That is why I believe that the government should regulate the legalization of marijuana.

Answer 5

No, some products of the Cannabis plant are already legalized for medical use, but you will never see a granny smoking a joint in the hospital to relieve her pain, if that's what you were asking...

Answer 6

It would be nice if it were legalized across the board but it will never happen. Government can't figure out a way to control it.

Answer 7

i think marijuana should be legal anyways but with the same laws as alcohol or somthin. of course, there needs to be laws and restrictions but i think it would really help the economy. plus it would keep more poeple out of jail instead of going for possesion.

Answer 8

Why not just legalize it period? Do you guys realize how much money goes into putting away people for smoking pot,? Or for growing the plant in their house...Come on...let's grow up already.

Answer 9

It should be legal period if I can go to the store and buy a half gallon of hard liquor

Answer 10

Yes.