Marijuana As Medicine

Marijuana As Medicine

Marijuana as a Medicine
Should medical marijuana be aloud as a legal option? The debate whether medical marijuana should or shouldn’t be prescribed by physicians has been around for a long time. Marijuana has proved to calm the symptoms of painful diseases and conditions, while being able to be taken safely and without costing a lot of money. There are also more than enough evidence form physicians proving its treatment effects.
Marijuana is the most commonly abused illicit drug in the United States. A dry, shredded green/brown mix of flowers, stems, seeds, and leaves of the plant Cannabis sativa; it usually is smoked as a cigarette (joint) or in a pipe. It also is smoked in blunts, which are cigars that have been emptied of tobacco and refilled with marijuana, often in combination with another drug. It might also be mixed in food or brewed as a tea. As a more concentrated, resinous form it is called hashish and, as a sticky black liquid, hash oil. Marijuana smoke has a pungent and distinctive, usually sweet-and-sour odor.
Medical marijuana is prescribed in certain states for such conditions as: Alzheimer’s disease, Anorexia, AIDS, Arthritis, Cachexia, and cancer
patients undergoing chemotherapy, Crohn’s Disease, Epilepsy, Glaucoma, HIV, Migraine, Multiple Sclerosis, Nausea, Pain, Spasticity, and wasting syndrome.
The statements doctors have given about their patients taking medical marijuana not only proves it relieves the symptoms its approved for but demonstrates that it is safe, low-cost, and effective. “From working with AIDS and cancer patients, I repeatedly saw how marijuana could ameliorate a patients debilitating fatigue, restore appetite, diminish pain, remedy nausea, cure vomiting and curtail “down-to-the-bone” weight loss.”(Scanell, Kate. San Francisco Chronicle. Feb. 2003) If marijuana can do all of this there isn’t an argument why it shouldn’t be able to be prescribed by doctors after standard therapy has not worked....