Twenty-three states and the District of Columbia currently have laws legalizing marijuana in some form. Each of these states’ laws on pot differ. If marijuana is legalized in the United States, it would reduce the incarceration rate and help patients with epilepsy however, the effects of marijuana can have positive and negative effects depending on how you use it. Even though everyone has access to marijuana in the United States, it is still illegal in many states. If marijuana is legalized as medical use then the government can regulate the weed being sold. It would be nearly impossible to remove marijuana from the United States, so why not stop fighting the war on weed and legalize it. State Rep. Bill McCamley, from southern New Mexico …show more content…
Currently only 6% of studies on marijuana analyze its medicinal properties. If pot is legalized then it could be studied, such as the effects it causes on the brain and also what the long term effects are. Although there has been no scientific evidence medical marijuana has helped reduce epileptic seizures and the list goes on and on. A medical patient using medical marijuana told CNN “‘There's just a few medications on the market that work, and even these can be inadequate,’ Sisley said. ‘They end up getting stuck on eight, 10, 12 different medications, and after taking so many, suddenly they're like zombies.’”(“10 Diseases Where Medical Marijuana Could Have Impact.”) When you are diagnosed with things such as epilepsy you are put on many medications to prevent you from having an epileptic seizure, these work for many people, however; many people feel out of it ‘like zombies’ when they take. These patients find that marijuana works just as well just without the side effects. This has not been scientifically proven. Although, Marijuana seems great and obviously works on many people, there have been some brain effects. Scientists have tested the long term effects on animals. However, this is not completely accurate. The scientists found that “regular marijuana use in adolescence is associated with altered connectivity and reduced volume of specific brain regions involved in a broad range of executive