Legalize Medical Marijuana

Medical Marijuana Medical marijuana should be legalized because it helps treat depression, helps ease physical and emotional pain, and it is known to provide relief for seizures and other serious body illnesses. Medical marijuana treats depression in many ways. Not only by relieving the pain, but controls and prevents depression going any farther than it already might be. Medical marijuana helps control and prevent depression by relieving the numbness and/or emptiness the body feels. Depression can drive a person to not have an appetite, meaning they won’t eat. “With medical marijuana the body will thrive for food, it’s called ‘the munchies.’ The THC in the marijuana convinces the brain that it’s starving; making it crave food and increases
“While going through the process of chemotherapy, the patient can get very nauseous and vomit. Medical marijuana can help relieve the symptoms of nausea and vomiting from the cannabinoids. By stimulating appetite, cannabinoids can be helpful with treating anorexia and other wasting diseases, which can include chronic diarrhea, tuberculosis, and other unexplained weight loss (Epilepsy Foundation).” “Cannabinoids is any group of closely related compounds that include cannabinol and the active constituents of cannabis (Dictionary.com).” Other serious medical conditions medical marijuana may help include: epilepsy, muscle spasticity, Parkinson’s disease, glaucoma, and of course, depression. Medical researches have concluded that medical marijuana not only can be helpful in treating the symptoms and pain with chemotherapy but, postoperative recovery, spinal cord injury, multiple sclerosis, diabetes and HIV/AIDS. Due to medical marijuana helping many medical problems, many organizations at the local, state, and national levels have endorsed the use of marijuana (Medical…Opposing Viewpoints). However, not all physicians agree that marijuana should be prescribed for medical conditions. Oncologist, Dr. Kevin Cullen, questioned the need to legalize marijuana and stated that he would probably never recommend the drug
Individual reports of small children with refractory (or intractable) epilepsy who have tried cannabis, have reported marked improvements in seizure frequency. Corral, an epileptic, says she suffers from fewer seizures because of medical marijuana (Elaine). With marijuana, she said, “she is more functional.” A study presented at the American Academy of Neurology documented that seizures decreased by an average of 54% in 137 people who completed 12 weeks of using medical marijuana. In 27 patients with atonic seizures decreased by 66.7% on average. Therefore, thus proving that medical marijuana can help decrease the amount of seizures in just one person is awesome and life changing. Those whom suffer from daily seizures and is on an anti-seizure medication and uses medical marijuana is more likely to have a decrease in daily seizures than those whom aren’t on an anti-seizure medication (Epilepsy Foundation). Medical marijuana should be legalized for many important reasons. Those reasons being: it helps treat depression, helps treat mental and/or physical pain, and is proven to decrease seizures. Medical marijuana can be a life changer for those whom are