Argumentative: Let’s Smoke Some Pot Essay, Research Paper

In most countries, marijuana is by law illegal because of its classification as an illicit drug, but the controversial issues have been established that this ?illicit drug? has improved the course of treatment for suffering patients. Marijuana has beneficial effects when used in medicinal scenarios like for example for the treatment of pain. Thus it should be an administered drug for patients who can benefit from the use of this drug. It has undergone analysis for its use as a medicine and the results have shown improvements in patients who were treated with this drug. Doctors have expressed opposite opinions, making this issue very controversial. As the debate about marijuana?s use as a medicine continues, experts have given us information pertaining to its positive effects when used properly.

Much of the controversy falls in the hands of the government, which claims that marijuana is not a safe medicine versus the doctors who research the topic for medicinal purposes. Though not all doctors feel marijuana should be a ?legal? prescribed medicine, it should be in their hands to decide it so. The Government and the Doctor?s Ethics have been questioned about the topic on marijuana use. This has ignited the controversy when it is said smoking marijuana is risky, but also recommended that critically ill patients should be allowed to use it under closely monitored settings. Doctors who are specialists who have researched much about marijuana use have authorized their patients to use this drug, but not over do it. With all the speculation, one would think that doctors wouldn?t be so eager to offer the drug as a reliever. The government proclaims there is no therapeutic value in the medicinal use of marijuana, but they do not have evidences to prove it so. As I see it, the government has demonized all drug use without differentiation and has systematically and hysterically resisted science. Possibly if the two ?sides? would work together, an agreement could be established concerning procedures for further development and treatment.

Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal street drug used by many as a depressant. It is one of the cheapest illegal drugs present in almost all over the world. It is also one of the easiest drugs to get. Because of this it is one of the most dangerous drugs, which is available to all. In reality, almost anyone can get this drug even though it is illegal.

Marijuana is grown from the cannabis plant. The cannabis plant was cultivated for it?s tough stem fibers prior to the advent of synthetic fibers. Most often the leaves and the flowering tops of the plant are dried and rolled into ?joints.? Then these joints are usually smoked like that of a tobacco. Marijuana increases your heart rate, makes your mouth feel dry, impairs motor skills, reddens eyes and slurs your speech. Sometimes the user experiences hallucinations, fantasies and paranoia. But above all, it eases the pain one feels inside which makes him forget the problems one is having on his current situation.

People have been using marijuana as a medicine for thousands of years, beginning in China, India, and the Middle East. The plant?s therapeutic potential became known in Western countries during the nineteenth century. More than a hundred articles now have been published about cannabis in the European and American medicinal journals, recommending it is an appetite stimulant, muscle relaxant, painkiller, sedative, and anti-convulsions. The use of marijuana should be legalized for the benefits of individuals suffering from a variety of medicinal problems. Marijuana as a medicine, however, cannot be established with the Government?s permission to test the drug and legalize it.

Patients should have the right to use any medicinal means necessary to control their diseases. Patients with cancer find marijuana controls their vomiting, allowing them to continue chemotherapy. Patients find marijuana helps the ?wasting syndrome? that often characterizes AIDS. Patients with spinal injuries and multiple sclerosis find relief from severe muscle spasms that complicate nerve damage. Patients with glaucoma have derived benefit from marijuana when conventional treatments have failed. Government experts have indicated that marijuana does relieve pain, and other disorders, but it does not cure them, therefore cannot be legalized as a prescription drug. But the point to this argument is that even just for some time, it helps the patient as a painkiller. Marijuana that serves as a painkiller is just like the other drugs found in pharmacies which serve as a painkiller as well. So why can?t marijuana be just like the other drugs sold in pharmacies? The purpose of marijuana use is that it should be recommended only to critically ill patients experiencing severe pain but should only be allowed to be used under closely monitored settings. This is so because marijuana is not so different from other frequently prescribed stimulants, but its stereotypical summary has the government questioning its output.

Marijuana has undergone analysis for its use in medicine and the results have shown improvements in the patients who were treated with this drug. Research showed that marijuana reduced the interlobular pressure that can lead to blindness in glaucoma patients. Migraine sufferers found relief from their headaches, and victims of spinal injuries, multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy reported that marijuana seemed to control theirs spasms. Marijuana has eased the pain of chemotherapy. Severe muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, weight-loss due to the AIDS virus, and other problems. Experts have confirmed that marijuana is an effective, safe and inexpensive alternative for treating nausea caused by AIDS medications and cancer treatments other such ailments as glaucoma, muscle spasms, intractable pain, epilepsy, anorexia, asthma, insomnia, depression and other disorders. Other such ailments in which marijuana has been said to help are Parkinson?s disease, Huntington?s disease, repetitive migraines, and Alzheimer?s disease. The government, however, should legalize it, put taxes and an age limit. For marijuana has never been proven to cause death and more so, there is no such thing as an over dose in marijuana use unlike other legal drugs.

With all the research and time spent on the use of marijuana as medicinal treatment, one would think that cannabis is beneficial and could possibly lead to other developments for treatment of disease and pain. Experimental programs, which have been going on for thirty years, have established the effectiveness of marijuana?s treatment. Patients with such infirmities as AIDS, cancer, anorexia, muscle spasms, insomnia, and other ailments have benefited from the use of medicinal marijuana in an experimental setting. Thus the treatment or the drug should be administered to those who are infected but not on an experimental program.

Regarding the legalization of the use of marijuana, I have come to a conclusion that marijuana should be legalized in order to help people suffering from terminal disease such as AIDS, cancer, glaucoma and other disorders. Prohibition of marijuana over the past decades hasn?t diminished the demand of the drug. The use of marijuana has acutely gone up due to mass attention given to marijuana by rappers such as Cypress Hill who promote the use of marijuana as a social drug. But I believe that marijuana is here to stay in our society and is only going through the stages that alcohol had during the prohibition era.

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