Marijuana use be legal for medical use in all state
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Although now a commonly used substance, medically, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has only approved the use of medical marijuana to treat Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome and Dravet Syndrome (Liang et al., 2018). These two extraordinarily chronic and severe forms of epilepsy are also considered very rare. Making Marijuana illegal in every instance means that it should be banned without considerations of its benefits, whether medical or social. According to Park & Wu (2017), marijuana has been legalized in more than 70% of the states in America. For decades, the research on potential medical benefits of Marijuana has brought about heated debates from scholars and politicians, with the majority of politicians against its legalization and the majority of scientists being for its legalization.
Marijuana strains have been noted to induce different beneficial occurrences in the body. Depending on the patient’s needs, they may be prescribed drugs that work to either reduce the pain experienced by cancer patients during the chemotherapy stage and can also be used as a natural and organic remedy to stimulate appetite in patients with HIV/AIDS (Park & Wu, 2017). Scientists and researchers support and recommend using marijuana products obtained through the purification of specific chemicals obtained from the marijuana plant, rather than using the crude extracts from the plant or the whole plant.
The benefits of Marijuana are many, but it also has high hallucinogenic risks. Therefore, it should approve its use in medicine with a clear distinction between the hallucinogenic and medical compounds in the marijuana plant. Making the plant illegal would be to ignore its good attributes, thus, limit the exploitation of something that would be good for the growth and well-being of society.
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Liang, D., Bao, Y., Wallace, M., Grant, I., & Shi, Y. (2018). Medical cannabis legalization and opioid prescriptions: evidence on US Medicaid enrollees during 1993–2014. Addiction, 113(11), 2060-2070.
Park, J. Y., & Wu, L. T. (2017). Prevalence, reasons, perceived effects, and correlates of medical marijuana use: a review. Drug and alcohol dependence, 177, 1-13.