The debate on medical marijuana use and legalization generally centers on the potential effect that cannabis may have on the user. Arriving at an answer to the question of‚ “How does medical marijuana affect mental illness?‚” requires an understanding of the research that exists on the issue‚ an assessment of the scientific evidence relevant to the correlation between cannabis and mental illness‚ as well as the possible application of marijuana and CBD as treatment options for varying mental illness
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Debate Paper The Benefits of Medicinal Marijuana While some people choose to think marijuana is a recreational drug‚ medicinal marijuana helps a vast amount of individuals around the universe that deals with their everyday life crisis from high risk diseases to emotional stability. Through years of studying patients along with the evolution of scientific research; marijuana has been proven to have an enormous positive influence on the patients that have chosen to indulge in the drug. The most
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Example/Comparison/Argumentative Inductive TREAT THE SYMPTOMS‚ NOT THE INJURY For centuries marijuana has been used by the top doctors of their time. And until recently‚ the past thirty years‚ the actual physical effects were unknown. Over the past three decades Science and Medicine have been researching what useful and healing effects this herb has‚ if any. Through my research I have found what I had only thought to be true. Marijuana does have great medicinal use. It is currently being used for an array of
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Pot. Dope. Cannibis. Grass. Marijuana. For years there has been a negative stigma attached to this plant‚ but that’s exactly what it is‚ a plant‚ something that grows in the ground‚ and it is not inherantly evil like some people believe. It is the use or misuse of it that is good or bad‚ not the plant itself. I think that it is time we look past all that we have been told about the dangers of marijuana and see that it actually has legitimate medical uses. And I believe that if it was something developed
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Marijuana Legalization Marijuana should be legalized and taxed by the government because it has a low risk of abuse‚ and it can be used for many medical reasons. Prescription drugs kill about 100‚000 people in the world each year. Off the top of your head‚ do you know how many deaths are caused by using marijuana‚ either medically or recreationally? According to statistics‚ marijuana has not yet been recorded to be a cause of any death‚ ever. Not only are marijuana’s
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Marijuana has been around for thousands of years ‚ Many citizens of the united states have heard of marijuana (cannabis) as a common drug‚ but there are also people who use it medically. The official term for marijuana is cannabis sativa. The active ingredient with in marijuana is tetrahydrocannabinol‚ frequently called THC. Marijuana is a plant that grows from a seed just like every other plant. My proposal is not defending the legalization of marijuana for recreational use‚ but essentially the
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Medical Marijuana Angelica Andrade COM/172 November 10‚ 2014 University of Phoenix Medical Marijuana The use of "Medical Marijuana" has been a controversial issue for thousands of years. The debate over whether marijuana should be legalized has long troubled American citizens. However‚ long before America was even an idea‚ many cultures had harnessed the plant and used it for many primitive medical purposes. Approximately twenty-three states in the U.S. have legalized marijuana for
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MEDICAL MARIJUANA Recently the dispute over the use of marijuana for medical purposes has grown a great deal. Marijuana is a very beneficial drug and could improve the lives of many very ill people. Marijuana should be legalized for medical use in the United States. This paper is based on the studies conducted by the IOM (Institute of Medicine) and will help to display the actual benefits of marijuana (Mack and Joy 5‚ 8). One of marijuana greatest benefits is its ability to increase the overall
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Tin 1 Allison Tin Professor T Composition 1 17 April 2014 Medical Marijuana: Using It Vs Abusing it Recently‚ the effects of medical marijuana have been noted to be helpful in an abundance of ways to people with different terrible situations. For example‚ Charlotte Figi is a girl with very serious epilepsy. Weekly enduring hundreds of seizures made life truly miserable and torturous for Charlotte. She continued the severe seizures consistently despite the anti-seizure prescription drugs
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known someone who has died from the consumption of weed? Or have you seen people suffering dramatic health experiences from consumption of weed like tobacco does? They have some very addictives products that are legal all over the globe why can’t marijuana be legal as well? Well it’s because the government is receiving lots of cash every single day in taxes for the consumption of those shitty products‚ which are killing our people slowly. Never before has my brother smoked not even in college. Then
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