Marijuana Persuasive Speech

If you had cancer or chronic pain would you be willing to take marijuana if it meant you would get better and feel better? Would you give your sick child marijuana if it meant making them healthier and happier? As of New Year's Day 2014 marijuana was legalized in Colorado, making Colorado the pioneer for Marijuana in America. In the early 1900s marijuana was made illegal and put under the genre of drugs as bad for you as heroin and cocaine. Since then we have found out lots of things about marijuana that could make a huge difference in the medical industry. Good and bad. But there still is a lot to learn. This drug has not been legal for long meaning we do not have a lot of research on it. Over the years, new research has come out about this

So many people who have issues with pain are starting to use marijuana as a pain medication and lots of people are speaking out about how this is working for them. A anonymous user with Scoliosis says that using marijuana as a painkiller has helped her so much more than using opioids and there are no other side effects and it did not make feel bad like a lot of other medications do (National Geographic: American Weeds). The reason why so many people are saying this is because opioids are very different from marijuana. Opioids have a lot of side effects some of them being bowl pain, constipation, dizziness, etc. But cannabis does not have a lot of side effects. The main side effect takes years to develope and that is a slight memory loss. The interesting thing about this is that we do not currently know what in marijuana helps pain so much. There are people that are trying to figure out why and there is one thing that we think is the cause. Marijuana is made up of two main chemicals, THC and CBD. THC is the chemical that is addictive and alters your state of mind, this chemical has different amounts in different strains. and CBD is what scientists believe is what has the medicinal value, but we do not know enough about it yet to say if that is true because we have not studied this enough yet.( Casarett Pg.54) A great thing about using marijuana in particular for pain is that there are so many types of marijuana that

One of the main ones being that since marijuana is in a lot of places illegal, it can be pretty hard to find.(Marijuana Country:the Cannabis Boom Since it is legal here in Colorado you can get it is you have a red card which is a medical marijuana license, but not a lot of states have it legalized yet. A lot of people who need marijuana have made long distance moves so they can have this medication. Some people also say that marijuana is a gateway drug, meaning that when you start taking marijuana you will want to start doing other drugs like heroin. But this can be taken both ways. Marijuana if used to get high has a very light mind alter compared to most drugs out there so a lot of people who want a bigger mind alter will try other things. But if you are just using marijuana as a medicine, it is very rare to start using other drugs because most people who use marijuana as a medication are not looking for a effect other than relief from their medical problems (Is Marijuana A Gateway Drug?). One of the other things that can be dangerous is edibles.(Marijuana Country: The Cannabis Boom) There are all sorts of types of edibles and most of them are in candy form. Anything from chocolate to lollipops. edibles are very different from smoking marijuana because it is not fast acting. They can actually take up to four hours to start taking effect on the body. And you only need a