Medical Marijuana. It’s safer than alcohol and tobacco but still illegal. Seven states have made it legal for recreational use in just the last 7 months. That makes 26 states where medical marijuana is legal and other states should also make cannabis legal. This is a debate that has been going on for a long time. We should legalize medical marijuana.
Medical marijuana helps with medical issues. A nursing home in New York is assisting their residents use cannabis for a new program to treat different illnesses as a different route to prescription drugs.The New York Times also reports that marijuana has helped people with different types of dementia including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and more. On top of all of that, scientists have proven that cannabis has been effective in treating people with certain medical conditions. Some of these conditions include: neuropathic pain, nausea from chemotherapy, and many more.
States where medical marijuana is legal, have profited a lot of money from it. According to one study, $7.5 billion was estimated for the income with $1.7 billion of that being labor income. Marijuana takes in 3 times the amount of tax revenue then alcohol in
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There was a national poll that showed people think that tobacco is a bigger threat then cannabis by a landslide. (76% vs. 18%) 72% of the surveyed people believe alcohol is also more dangerous than cannabis. Alcohol and tobacco can cause cancer liver damage, heart failure, and many other medical conditions and they are legal but marijuana helps cure medical conditions and they are still legal. According to Dr. David L. Nathan, Even sugar can be more of a threat to a person’s health then cannabis. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) says six people die from alcohol poisoning every day. That adds up to about 88,000 deaths per a year due to alcohol poisoning. That’s just in the USA! There has never been a single report of a marijuana