Legalizing Marijuana
. New York child welfare feels that if a parent caught on these offenses, there may be other problems that could stop them for
Legalizing Marijuana
Shirley Whitley
Soc120
David Jung
September 15, 2012
Legalize Marijuana 1
When you think about legalizing marijuana, what comes to your mind first? The benefits it would have on legalizing marijuana. Everywhere you go someone is debating whether we should or should not legalize marijuana. There’s a lot of good in this plant. Having an open mind, there is advantages and disadvantages that it can have for this country. There is medicinal marijuana, relativism and financially, agriculture, utilitarian. I will express myself how it can benefit everybody if marijuana was to be legalized. This is a universal plant. Marijuana can be used to treat different illnesses. This universal plant can treat constipation, female weakness, gout, malaria, rheumatism and absent mindedness, this is just a few names according to Bloomquist. Different countries used it to treat hydrophobia, delirium, and skin disease, protracted labor during child birth, asthma, hay fever, and cholera. (Bloomquist, 1968)
According to Rae Uddin it is beneficial the medical marijuana can improve patient’s way of life. It is highly challenged when it comes to the beneficial uses of medicinal marijuana. There are 14 states that have enacted laws to protect the rights of some patients to use medical marijuana. There is a study that was published in February in a 2009 journal, the patients that experienced neuropathic pain and they were given medical marijuana, they dropped at least 30 percent less pain. Therefore when you have cancer, it decreases your appetite, so therefore cancer patients lose weight drastically. The recovery progress can be detrimental because the human body requires energy to digest our food to fight off infections, cells and tissue needs to heal, medical marijuana can be there for these millions of people. Medical
Legalizing Marijuana
Shirley Whitley
Soc120
David Jung
September 15, 2012
Legalize Marijuana 1
When you think about legalizing marijuana, what comes to your mind first? The benefits it would have on legalizing marijuana. Everywhere you go someone is debating whether we should or should not legalize marijuana. There’s a lot of good in this plant. Having an open mind, there is advantages and disadvantages that it can have for this country. There is medicinal marijuana, relativism and financially, agriculture, utilitarian. I will express myself how it can benefit everybody if marijuana was to be legalized. This is a universal plant. Marijuana can be used to treat different illnesses. This universal plant can treat constipation, female weakness, gout, malaria, rheumatism and absent mindedness, this is just a few names according to Bloomquist. Different countries used it to treat hydrophobia, delirium, and skin disease, protracted labor during child birth, asthma, hay fever, and cholera. (Bloomquist, 1968)
According to Rae Uddin it is beneficial the medical marijuana can improve patient’s way of life. It is highly challenged when it comes to the beneficial uses of medicinal marijuana. There are 14 states that have enacted laws to protect the rights of some patients to use medical marijuana. There is a study that was published in February in a 2009 journal, the patients that experienced neuropathic pain and they were given medical marijuana, they dropped at least 30 percent less pain. Therefore when you have cancer, it decreases your appetite, so therefore cancer patients lose weight drastically. The recovery progress can be detrimental because the human body requires energy to digest our food to fight off infections, cells and tissue needs to heal, medical marijuana can be there for these millions of people. Medical
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