Medical Marijuana
There are many forms of medication in today's world things like pills, powders and liquids. Most people hate the taste of these, and for some the generic Advil and tylenol medicines don’t work for them. Have you ever wondered if there could be a different kind of medicine that can come in different forms with a not so bad taste? Medical marijuana has been around since 1996 when California legalized the medical use of marijuana. The use and belief that medical marijuana actually works goes even further back to 2900 BC, when the Chinese Emperor Fu Hsi referred to marijuana as a popular medicine. The main point is that marijuana has been around for longer than anyone will ever know, and the ability to use it for medical uses has also been around for a long time. Marijuana should be legalized for medical uses by the federal government.
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Legalizing medical marijuana would create many jobs. A place like, a medical marijuana testing laboratory would need tons of workers. In these laboratories, they do things that test the marijuana for mold and other pesticides. There would also be more grocery store positions open and there would have to be growers and dispensaries. These are just a few of the jobs that would be available to people if we legalized medical marijuana. Taxing medical marijuana is not a bad idea either in Colorado’s dispensaries brought in $200 million in sales in the year 2000. Colorado only has a 2.9% sales tax on medical marijuana. This shows that if we put a little bit of a sales tax on medical marijuana and made in legal here we could make a lot of money off it. This idea would also lower Government spending. As taxpayers a big portion of the taxes we pay is to keep people in jail, in particular, would be the people sitting in jail who self medicated with medical marijuana because they feel they should be allowed to, and they are