Medical Marijuana Peer Review

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Peer Review Outline Thesis: It is time to get rid of the stereotypes of marijuana and starts evaluating it in the medical field, the article shows both sides of medical marijuana the good and the side effects. “So What” Statement: Marijuana has the potential to treat all kinds of medical conditions symptoms and more, but marijuana also has side effects of its own as stated in this article. Which is very important to get to see both sides of the topic. The article “The NEW SCIENCE of Marijuana” by Ginny Graves is about how studies have shown that marijuana can relieve chronic pain from migraines and much more. The article starts out with a picture of a marijuana leaf drawing you into the article making one want to read it. The lettering of the titles is a light green making it interesting because it is not all black and boring, the Arthur …show more content…

The article found that people who suffer from migraines were able to stop the attacks by half. After so long of people taking all the “not-very-effective medications for migraines” Graves states. According to Canadian researchers found that the studies reported slight yet significant pain-relieving effects in a variety of difficult to treat conditions such as pain from fibromyalgia, and rheumatoid arthritis. The article also talks about how pot is associated with some health problems of its own there is new evidence that marijuana will actually help lower the countries massive opioid problems. The article includes what percent of doctors are in favored of legalizing medical marijuana. In the middle of the article it brings up the risks, the downsides of marijuana like any drug has, the main risked that are listed are diminished memory, anxiety and paranoia, increased hart rate, and potential for addiction as for all of these the Arthur goes into explaining them individually. Something really nice the author puts into his article are pictures with information on it showing that there are