Marijuana

While the criminal justice system and politicians are still remiss to make marijuana use for medical purposes legal, there are many organizations, state legislatures and agencies that support its use for medicinal purposes. The American Medical Association has endorsed its legalization for certain medical conditions (AIDS, cancer, and degenerative bone diseases) as well as support from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Adding to this support, many states, health associations and politicians support the use of marijuana for medical purposes, not to mention ou

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medicinal benefits of using the drug and thousands of patients who have benefited from its use, there are those who feel the drugs effects on the body and mind are too dangerous to prescribe it under any circumstances. Opponents of legalizing marijuana often spout off a list of detrimental affects the drug can have when it is smoked, “After smoking marijuana, some people feel anxiety and have paranoid thoughts. Marijuana causes problems with memory and learning, distorted perception, trouble with thinking and problem-solving, loss of coordination, increased heart rate, anxiety and panic attacks. Smokers can also develop the same kinds of breathing problems tobacco smokers do. They can suffer from coughing, phlegm production, wheezing and a tendency to have more chest colds than non-users” (Strait 2). What is ironic and ridiculous about such claims is that advocates like William F. Buckley argue the research against marijuana is flawed and outright wrong, coupled with the fact that these risks of using the drug (if they indeed are so) seem minor in comparison to the absolute nausea of a cancer patient after chemotherapy, an AIDS patient who has no appetites, or a glaucoma patient who risks going blind from intraocular pressur
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