Marijuana has been used extensively as a medical remedy for more than five thousand years. In the twentieth-century, The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 made plant from which marijuana is made so expensive to get that its usage as a medical fix for a disease in the U.S. came to a halt. Although now illegal in the U.S., marijuana continues to be used for both medical and recreational purposes by many Americans. There are a variety of opinions both for and against the re-making something legal of marijuana today. Maybe the most something that causes arguments between people aspect of the making something legal debate is whether marijuana should be made something permitted by law for medical purposes. Marijuana is a drug produced using the dried leaves and flowering tops of a plant called hemp. There is a chemical in the plant that progressions the brain. That chemical is called "delta-9 …show more content…
In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Grinspoon wrote an article entitled "A Plea for Reconsideration". In this plea, Grinspoon hints that marijuana should be reclassified to a Schedule II class drug. In a 1990 survey, 44% of doctors said they had suggested patients to smoke marijuana for relief of the nausea caused by using powerful drugs to help cure disease. If marijuana were actually unsafe for use under medical supervision, as its Schedule I status clearly and definitely states as true. Medicinal marijuana users say it is time for Congress to act. It could change the law and allow states to put into law their own laws about the use of marijuana. But there is a political two-headed problem. Few members of Congress would be willing to vote for a bill that would allow pot smoking, even for the terminally ill. They fear such a vote would come back to haunt them at election time. Any hopes of those who want marijuana made something permitted by law like alcohol seem to be further away than