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Marijuana Persuasive Speech

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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 …show more content…

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 …show more content…

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

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Using any drug has side effects. The side effects could be just be headaches, or being tired. There is worse effects too, like poor school performance and addiction. Marijuana has a lot of side effects, long term and short term. Some of them are panic, hallucinations, loss of sense of personal identity, severe anxiety, increased heart rate, and problems with coordination.

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Everyday patients are visiting their doctors in a desperate search for help with their problems, some physical and some psychological. Far too often in today’s troubled society a doctor is quick to hand their patient a prescription for a powerful and potentially harmful substance. The prescriptions could include drugs such as benzodiazepines for psychological problems and epilepsy, or opioids for pain. Both of those substances can have substantially dangerous and adverse effects and could lead to addiction and even death. Marijuana is a much safer and more naturally occurring substance that can be used for all of the previously listed purposes.

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When one uses it for pleasure, they are looking for a high that last for four or five hours. A person might just start to smoke once in awhile, but before no time, they are addicted to it and there’s no turning back. Marijuana is known to be a stepping stone. That is true, 90% of those using hard drugs, such as heroin, started with marijuana. People do get a high and do feel good but overall marijuana is bad for you.

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There are many people who argue that marijuana should be legal for medical purposes. In fact, a growing number of states have legalized marijuana for medical use. Marijuana contains delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main ingredient in marijuana that makes people ‘high’, that may help treat a range of illnesses and symptoms such as increasing one’s appetite and reducing nausea. It can also decrease pain, inflammation, and muscle control problems (Abuse, National Institute on Drug). Furthermore, the chemical cannabidiol (CBD), another ingredient in marijuana, but it does not get people ‘high’, could potentially help reduce pain and inflammation, control epileptic seizures, and possibly treat mental illness and

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The side effects associated with marijuana are many. There is no known mechanism of the activity. For example it can create lung related disorder after long use. It has fewer side effects as compared to alcohol and cannabis, but still it cannot be neglected. There are many other alternatives of marijuana for pain and depression disorder, so it is not the last choice the physician can prescribe.

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In fact, marijuana is not an effective treatment. It is not approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration). One contributing factor is that marijuana is not predictable; it is difficult to deliver accurate doses of marijuana (What's Wrong With "Medical Marijuana"). Users have seen a lack of results from medical marijuana, as well. “Up to 80% of people who request medical marijuana want to ease pain, while more than a third cite PTSD as their primary reason” (Young, Saundra).

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We have chosen to demonize marijuana, we have chosen to incarcerate millions of people at the hands of a nearly harmless drug (depending on the users obviously), now we must decriminalize it and free the people who have been wronged by our government. I believe that legalizing marijuana would simply make everything better for us as a country; it would help us drastically with our money problems, help start funding for other programs that have been taken money out of previously (education department has been the worst to suffer), make more space in jails and prisons, and this would raise the morale and the confidence constituents have in their government. "There is now promising research into the use of marijuana that could impact tens of thousands of children and adults, including treatment for cancer, epilepsy and Alzheimer's, to name a few. With regard to pain

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