Indiana has a reputation for its fields of corn. Will marijuana be its next big crop? Some say yes! Medical marijuana has benefits that Hoosiers should be allowed to have legally just like the other half of the U.S. Medical marijuana can help people who suffer from depression, anxiety etc. Marijuana can also relieve physical pain from the human body. What is medical marijuana? Medical marijuana is a plant or a herb.The chemicals in marijuana can help treat diseases or conditions just like other plants do. To get medical marijuana you have to have a recommendation from a licensed doctor in states where that is legal. It's really the same product as recreational marijuana, but it's taken for medical purposes. The marijuana plant has more than …show more content…
It can help with the pain you feel and also can help with some cases of seizure and epilepsy. Some researchers found that medical marijuana may help relieve seizures in kids with hard-to-treat epilepsy. A type of medical marijuana known as "Charlotte's Web" can be used by kids without getting them high because the strain has very little THC. (5) Smoking marijuana can cause some mild irritation to the lungs. But it does not damage the lungs the way tobacco does. “Researchers interviewed 611 lung cancer patients and 1,040 healthy controls as well as 601 patients with cancer in the head or neck region under the age of 60 to create the statistical analysis. They found that 80 percent of those with lung cancer and 70 percent of those with other cancers had smoked tobacco while only roughly half of both groups had smoked marijuana. The more tobacco a person smoked, the greater the risk of developing cancer, as other studies have shown.” (7) The U.S. is battling a large increase in the abuse of other pain-relieving drugs that cause addiction and can lead to overdose (8): “Even aspirin can kill you if you take too much, but a fatal dose of marijuana would require ingestion of fifteen hundred pounds in fifteen minutes a physical impossibility for any human, even Snoop Dogg," Schmader writes in his book.(5) The physical benefits are only part of the picture. Marijuana has also been shown to have mental benefits as