True Effects of Medical Marijuana
Medical marijuana should be legalized because it can relieve pain, as in, nausea, vomiting, and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS, it is less toxic than most drugs that physicians prescribe to patients every day. The Pain Management of America said “There are few things more frightening in life than receiving a cancer diagnosis. Fortunately for cancer patients, medical marijuana may be an effective cancer treatment and an alternative to many drugs currently used to treat cancers including breast cancer, cervical cancer, colorectal cancer, brain cancer, leukemia, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and more. Medical marijuana can also help to alleviate symptoms associated with traditional cancer treatment, including nausea and vomiting.” On top of relieving pain, it also makes you hungry, which can be very helpful to people with cancer having a hard time keeping food down, or eating food in the first place. However, smoking Marijuana can be detrimental to your lungs “. Yet medical marijuana is not used for smoking alone, the THC is extracted from it and it can be made into a pill form, so your risk of getting cancer is much less, but by smoking it, not only could you hurt yourself, but you could hurt others around you (second hand smoke). Marijuana has use as medicine in the hands of trained physicians. It does not have a place in the hands of children, teens or so called "recreational" users any more than any other medication does. Marijuana has many positive effects, and little negative ones. Tobacco and Alcohol are legal, yet have no medical purposes, and can only harm the user. Marijuana on the other hand can actually be beneficial. Then, you might ask, why is it illegal!? Many people think that Marijuana was made illegal because in its hearing, it was determined to be harmful, but in fact, it’s quite the opposite. In fact, Guither, P. says “Many people assume that marijuana was made illegal through some kind of