Legal vs Illegal How people could think that marijuana is immoral or “simply illegal” has not had to deal with extreme intolerable pain. Numerous people in the United States and around the world do not just see marijuana, also known by several phrases such as; cannabis, “mary jane”, “pot”, reefer, hooch, the left hand cigarette, “smoke”, and break time activity. But they see it as an essential medicine that alleviates debilitating symptoms. From headaches, to spasms, loss of …show more content…
appetite, chronic pain, anxiety, arthritis, cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, Crohn’s disease, epilepsy, inflammation and autoimmune disorders patients have had to seek out marijuana to be able to cope with their medical conditions and improve the quality of their lives to those terminally ill.
State governments have prepared bills and entered them into their judicial systems legalizing marijuana for the treatment of patients with????
Listed in papers copied on Oklahoma’s legislature passing and not passing one bill and revising it. Basically they just reworded what was already written to sound different but still meant the same thing. Taking a look at the legal and practical issues surrounding medical marijuana in the United States and the impact legalization could have on not only the drug cartel and over crowding prisons’ but what it could do to our national debt and if it was legalized how that money could go to decreasing our debt and helping those who need it instead of our government borrowing money from Peter to pay Paul and just becoming increasingly more in debt than when we started out 8years
ago.
The number is growing I might add.
One of the most widely supported issues in drug policy reform. A recent experiment on influence of cannabis, marijuana proved effective results to nausea (93%) and vomiting (75%), and as an appetite stimulant (95%). The results presented in 1999 by other medical researchers indicated that there was a potential therapeutic value for making cannabinoid into a drug. It apparently helps control pain in other words helps ease the level of pain felt, controls involuntary movement and it is said even helps your memory.
The requested drug control budget amount for FY 2004 is $11.7 billion,
I just couldn’t believe this graph when I seen it. How could there be less than 3% in prisons and in our jails without charges related to drugs. I just seem so unrealalistic.
References:
Silverman, Jacob, HowStuffWorks “How Medical Marijuana Works”
http://science.howstuffworks.com/medical-marijuana.htm