Marijuana Doesn't Kill Just Helps

Marijuana Doesn't Kill Just Helps

Marijuana Doesn’t Kill Just Helps

Have you experienced a love one fighting for their life and wishing you can do anything to take their pain and discomfort away?   I have! My best friend Ricky, a 31 year old, with stage 4 colon cancer with liver metastasis lives with this everyday.   Every week he goes through chemotherapy and describes it as “being flushed with poison.”   He looks forward to going home and having his marijuana as it is the only drug that will contain his nausea, help him eat, help him sleep, and helps him feel ok to play with his two children. Is this so wrong? Who are we to say? These are questions that we, as a society, need to ask ourselves. Besides medicinal purposes, marijuana can cause a cure to our financial burden in the United States. So much time and money is being put in to control the growth and use of marijuana when we might as well embrace it. Although some say marijuana is hazardous to your health and does not carry any importance, marijuana should be legalized because it benefits cancer patients and will help relieve financial debt the United States is facing.
Most of the nation feels as I do, as you can see in the diagram below. This diagram displays the percentage of people in the United States that favor making marijuana legally available to reduce pain and suffering.
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Source: Gallup Organization 11/2003

The numbers are shocking, don’t you think? I have to admit I found them to be surprising myself. Over half the nation feels we waste our time by focusing on a drug that helps people, rather than hurts it. There are two legal drugs that kill people every minute of every day. This would be alcohol and cigarettes. I am not saying no danger has ever taken place after somebody smoked marijuana but bad things happen daily after people drink alcohol; yet it is still legal. I honestly feel people forget about the legal drugs that are killing people. Yes they put caution on their boxes or cans but whatever cautions there are...