Imagine being the parent of a child who has three hundred seizures a week. After trying every pharmaceutical possible, to no avail, Paige Figi started to consider giving her six-year-old daughter, Charlotte, medical marijuana. However, before they could ever try this form of treatment, Paige and Charlotte were forced to move from texas to Colorado so that Charlotte could receive the correct medication (Young). Is it acceptable for this or any other family to leave their family and friends and move more than one thousand miles away just to receive medicine? Marijuana is a preparation of the cannabis plant intended for use as a psychoactive drug or medicine. Some would say marijuana is unsafe and ineffective, while others believe it to be effective in treating many medical conditions. Marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes because it is not a gateway drug, the government would be able to regulate it, and making marijuana completely illegal would not stop its use. To show the popularity of drugs and how …show more content…
Then the government could legalize the sales and would be able to control it. Governments could ensure that people are being given high-quality cannabis, so they would not have to risk the dangers of obtaining it illegally. In addition, the government would tax its sale therefore increasing government profits and boosting the economy. In one year, for example, Oregon raised over 6.7 million dollars in marijuana taxes, which it used to pay for other state health programs (Krulick). Legalization would also allow more studies on the subject, leading to a better understanding of its long-term health effects. If marijuana is the only successful form of treatment for a medical condition, would it not seem plausible to use this drug until another drug is deemed beneficial. In the long run, government control of marijuana would allow fewer health concerns for its