How Medical Marijuana should be legalized?

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In this paper I tried to persuade the reader that how and why Medical Marijuana should be legalized. I have tried to focus on the pros and cons of the Medical Marijuana and the positive impacts it would have on our society especially in the field of healthcare if it is legalized. Furthermore, this paper portrays several benefits of the use of Medical Marijuana and the prescriptions of doctors and surgeons who also want it to be legalized.

How Medical Marijuana should be legalized?

Marijuana has been used extensively as a medical remedy for more than five thousand years. In the early 1900s, medical usage of marijuana began to decline with the advent of alternative drugs. Injectable opiates and synthetic drugs such as aspirin and barbiturates began to replace marijuana as the physician's drug of choice in the twentieth-century, as their results proved to be more consistent than the sometimes erratic effects of the hard-to-dose potencies of marijuana (Grinspoon, 53). The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 made cannabis so expensive to obtain that its usage as a medical remedy in the U.S. came to a halt. Although now illegal in the U.S., marijuana continues to be used for both medical and recreational purposes by many Americans. There are a variety of opinions both for and against the re-legalization of marijuana today. Perhaps the most controversial aspect of the legalization debate is whether marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes.

Did know that one in five people get cancer in their lifetime? Now imagine if you were one of those one in five who had cancer. Visualize yourself, suffering through a constant regime of chemotherapy where you are on the edge of death, all because the chemotherapy is not only killing the cancerous cells but it is killing the all of the good cells in your body too. Every second you feel extremely nauseous and you are vomiting constantly, and you just don't want to eat, and you feel like dieing. Now you really wish there was something that would make you feel better.

There is, but it is only legal in some countries. It is the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. This "medicine" also known as pot, weed, bud, herb, ganja, hemp and grass, would suppress the nausea and make you feel much better and make you eat. This is only one of the many reasons why medicinal marijuana should be legalized.

First of all right now all across the world there is a huge AIDS epidemic going around the whole world. Marijuana is a drug that can be used to help make people feel better who suffer from AIDS. What happens is that the people with AIDS suffer from a condition known as malnutrition. These people suffer from malnutrition because the do not eat enough regular food to get the nutrition they need. What the marijuana does is it stimulates the neurons in the hypothalamus in the brain and tells that the body that it is hungry and you ...