Health Benefits Of Legalizing Marijuana
Sewanhaka High School
The legalization of Marijuana
By
Zachery Cywinski
Marijuana has a lot of beneficial characteristics for many different types of people and can make an impact on people’s lives especially those who benefit from its medicinal aspects. Marijuana has also been around for thousands of years and has been used by many generations for many different things like, feeding livestock, making rope and even in building materials and many more things as well. Marijuana should be legalized in all states for the medical use due to its ability to relive pain and allow patients to be more relaxed and comfortable. This can prove that marijuana is not a bad drug and should be legalized for the patients in need of its medicinal aspects. …show more content…
The legalization can also benefit America as a whole in generating much tax revenue and better the economy as a whole. One reason why marijuana should be legalized is because it has many health benefits.
Some healthy benefits are that pot can help treat aids, cancer, Tourette’s and anxiety as well as many more diseases. Long term health effects of smoking pot contends that the drug is neither addictive nor toxic like tobacco, alcohol, or many over the counter prescriptions. There is no such record that any being has overdosed on marijuana either. “From several other sources marijuana has proven not to be a gateway drug that introduces users to more addictive narcotics. Drug sociologist Lynn Zimmer and narcotics researcher John P Morgan have found many health benefits for marijuana. In treating glaucoma, marijuana reduces the fluid pressure in the eyes that causes irreversible damage to vision”. (Page 1-9 Marijuana 2008 from opposing viewpoints) For the treatment of patients with aids marijuana addresses the patient’s immunosuppression and the danger posted by lung irritants and fungal illnesses such as aspergillosis. Many aids patients induced nausea, appetite loss, and wasting syndrome claim that marijuana saved their lives by motivating them to eat. “Millions of people in the United States suffer from chronic pain, and much of that suffering cannot be relieved adequately by existing treatments. Patients are in desperate need of new pain management approaches. Cannabinoid medicines appear very promising, although the subject often is obscured by controversy, prejudice, and confusion in part because cannabinoids have some relation to the cannabis plant—also known by the slang term marijuana”. (McCarberg, Bill. "Marijuana Can Help in the Treatment of Pain." Marijuana, edited by Noah Berlatsky, Greenhaven Press, 2012. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010381246/OVIC?u=nysl_li_sewanhs&xid=9ce7b094. Accessed 29 Mar. 2017. Originally published as "Marijuana and Pain Management,", 2012.) Cannabinoids are very good at relieving pain for
patients that are struggling to recover quickly because of the pain they have. It is tough for the cannabis plant to play its role and help patients even though it was proven successful at helping people and relieving pain because marijuana is illegal in many American states and is hopefully soon legalized for the medical consumption for many patients.
The legalization of Marijuana
By
Zachery Cywinski
Marijuana has a lot of beneficial characteristics for many different types of people and can make an impact on people’s lives especially those who benefit from its medicinal aspects. Marijuana has also been around for thousands of years and has been used by many generations for many different things like, feeding livestock, making rope and even in building materials and many more things as well. Marijuana should be legalized in all states for the medical use due to its ability to relive pain and allow patients to be more relaxed and comfortable. This can prove that marijuana is not a bad drug and should be legalized for the patients in need of its medicinal aspects. …show more content…
The legalization can also benefit America as a whole in generating much tax revenue and better the economy as a whole. One reason why marijuana should be legalized is because it has many health benefits.
Some healthy benefits are that pot can help treat aids, cancer, Tourette’s and anxiety as well as many more diseases. Long term health effects of smoking pot contends that the drug is neither addictive nor toxic like tobacco, alcohol, or many over the counter prescriptions. There is no such record that any being has overdosed on marijuana either. “From several other sources marijuana has proven not to be a gateway drug that introduces users to more addictive narcotics. Drug sociologist Lynn Zimmer and narcotics researcher John P Morgan have found many health benefits for marijuana. In treating glaucoma, marijuana reduces the fluid pressure in the eyes that causes irreversible damage to vision”. (Page 1-9 Marijuana 2008 from opposing viewpoints) For the treatment of patients with aids marijuana addresses the patient’s immunosuppression and the danger posted by lung irritants and fungal illnesses such as aspergillosis. Many aids patients induced nausea, appetite loss, and wasting syndrome claim that marijuana saved their lives by motivating them to eat. “Millions of people in the United States suffer from chronic pain, and much of that suffering cannot be relieved adequately by existing treatments. Patients are in desperate need of new pain management approaches. Cannabinoid medicines appear very promising, although the subject often is obscured by controversy, prejudice, and confusion in part because cannabinoids have some relation to the cannabis plant—also known by the slang term marijuana”. (McCarberg, Bill. "Marijuana Can Help in the Treatment of Pain." Marijuana, edited by Noah Berlatsky, Greenhaven Press, 2012. Opposing Viewpoints. Opposing Viewpoints in Context, link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/EJ3010381246/OVIC?u=nysl_li_sewanhs&xid=9ce7b094. Accessed 29 Mar. 2017. Originally published as "Marijuana and Pain Management,", 2012.) Cannabinoids are very good at relieving pain for
patients that are struggling to recover quickly because of the pain they have. It is tough for the cannabis plant to play its role and help patients even though it was proven successful at helping people and relieving pain because marijuana is illegal in many American states and is hopefully soon legalized for the medical consumption for many patients.