medical marijuana for or against?

Question

i want to know if you are for or against legalization of marajuana for medical use and why/why not

sorry but marajuana is NOTHING like oxycontin. Oxycontin is devrived from opium, like morphine and heroin, it is very bad for you and very addictive. trust me i know, doctors have prescribed me much pills for my painful surgeries and as a result i feel this urge to take it whenever i see or hear of it. yet i haven't used any that were not prescribed to me and i have been pill free for three years

wow saz, you need to learn to spell you look like you don't know what you are talking about

Answer 1

for
The most common reason why marijuana can be harmful is that people can often come across laced marijuana without realizing it. Marijuana can easily be mixed with other more harmful drugs with out the buyer realizing it, until they have already used it. This is a dangerous thing that causes many people to do more harmful, hard core drugs without realizing it. If it were to be legalized the government could provide guide lines, like it does with alchol to insure that people knew what they were putting into their bodies.

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.

marijuana is the most commonly uses illegal substance in the United States. it is used by many people, most of which aren't your stereotypical "druggie", with no life agead of them. Many of them hapen to be very successful, good people. Think about it almost if not every person who reads this paper will know (even if they don't realize it) at least one if not several regular users of marijuana. Its often made out to be much more harmful htan it really is, unfortunatly not every one realizes this.

What many people don't realize is marijuana is much less harmful than alcohol or tobacco. Yet it's the one of the three that gets a bad rap and is illegal. Marijuana isn't even physicaly addicting. You certanly don't see meetings for marijuana like you do with alcohol and AA. Unfortunatly due to American culture the less harmful of the three is illegal.

Answer 2

I am for it, if someone have some disease causeing outrages pain why not it is cheaper than most pain medications. If they are termenal go ahead and let them why ius the worst that could happen they get addicted for the rest of their painful life, at least with the pot they can feel with out the pain for aleast a short time, they can be with their family for the time they have left. When I worked in heath care I would be working with a person who was dying, there was nothing you could do for them and the stupid doctors and nurses ( I am a nurse so I can say that LOL) would not give that dying person something to stop the pain so they could die in peace, a doctor actually told me once "Well we can't have then getting addicted to it can we?" HELLO they were dying, what is the worst thing they die with a peace ful look on their face. Sorry I feel really strong about this issue. In high school a friend's dad was dying of cancer and he was on a morphan drip and it did not even touch the pain so we went and got a bag of pot and used a toilet paper roll and blew the smoke in his mouth and beleive it or not that poor man was able to sleep peacefully for 3 and half hours which is something he had not been able to do for months. That was almost 20 years ago but I would do the same for my mom and grandma or anyone close to me. the only reason pot is not legal is because no one can deside who gets the money from it. The people who grow it or the goverment from taxing it.

Answer 3

In my opinion it should be legalized. I feel smoking marijuana to relieve pain is much safer due to the fact you can't overdose while using it. You can; however, overdose on pain medication. It's funny how something that can't kill you, and can help reduce pain caused from diseases is illegal, yet it's ok for people to smoke cigarettes even though they risk developing health problems such as cancer and heart disease. Don't things seem a little backwards?

Science is trying to research more about this drug in hopes to have it approved legally for the ill who rely on the drug for pain relief. Getting the drug from the government is complicated since the government has a monopoly over the drug, and the amount that can be used for research. The government is afraid that if medical marijuana were to be legal that people using the drug for personal use rather than medical would find a way to come up with false perscriptions to sell. The government wants to reduce the use of marijuana; not increase it.

Answer 4

I'm not a pot head by any means but I have a friend who is seriously sick and she can only ease her nausea by smoking and it helps w/ her appetite too. It works much better and is more natural than the Pills she was originally prescribed, w/ the only side effects being happy and hungry as opposed to her medication drowsy, lack of appetite and constipation.
My GF also uses it medically basically, because she for some reason always has morning sickness(not pregnant) she had it for 4 years and it eases the cramps.
My mom's friend has had his bouts w/ cancer and smokes for the same reason as my friend so Ive witnessed that it really should be allowed in more areas, Its just not regulated or taxed; therefore its illegal.

Answer 5

FOR! I don't smoke marijuana, never have, never will. I am allergic to it, and cigar and cigarrette smoke.
I know that marijuana can have beneficial results for cancer patients suffering from side effects of cancer treatments. It also helps people sleep, who can't take sleeping pills for various reasons.
If the government regulated it, and controlled it, like they do prescription medicines, then the abuse factor would be less than just letting people grow and sell it, with a license. (Oregon is doing that now.) If someone has one plant more than permitted, they get arrested.
We spend way too much money going after marijuana users, growers, etc. The meth and harder illegal drugs need to be gone after.

Answer 6

I am definately for marijuana for medical use. Some of the drugs that are used for nausea during chemotherapy also cause weight loss and marijuana is fairly cheap and will help keep a person's weight up while fighting for their life.

Answer 7

i am and against.

Their are lost of drugs out thir that can help, which you can have to light up for.I do think it alright if it is a last thing he/she can could have to stop the plan.

It really does depend on what is it going to be used for in the way of 1-10 pain scale.

Answer 8

For. It's been proven that it's beneficial for patients with pain, nausea, and vomiting due to terminal illness. It also has less side effects and is less toxic than traditional drugs used to treat these syptoms in cancer patients. It also has a much lower addiction rate than traditional pain relievers.

Answer 9

Yes with restrictions like if it was a last choice or near last choice. If you make marijuana for medical use, you'd have to make laws about using it while doing things like driving or anything that might endanger the public while you are high. It is not like most drugs that just get you drowsy. It would be something like oxycottin.

Answer 10

I've always said Marijuana should be legalized and Alcohol should be out-lawed. Alcohol has taken far more lives in accidents than Marijuana alone.