Pros And Cons Of Medical Marijuana

Marijuana Helpful Or Harmful? The word marijuana comes from a cannabis plant and is most known in being a drug with amazing qualities. Those qualities of course come with different opinions towards them, both positive and negative. Negative opinions towards marijuana are that some people see it as being an addictive drug that is commonly used around the world for recreational uses that are more of a problem then a solution. The positive side of marijuana is much larger though. This side involves curing diseases, helping the sick, managing pain, and helping people with other addictions. Medical marijuana is proven to help people with spasticity of the muscles, vomiting, nausea, cancer, appetite loss, neuropathic pain, and HIV/AIDS. These

The people in need for medical marijuana are people who are suffering with mental or physical pain that need the extra support that normal medications do not give them. One of the points to prove this was in an article on how medical marijuana has proven to help people with a life altering disease called ALS: “ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain and the spinal cord” (“What is ALS?”). For those people dealing with ALS, the cannabis plant or medical marijuana is helping them as a muscle relaxant, appetite stimulant, sleep inducer, and antidepressant. By making people’s lives easier to cope with the pain that they have to endure everyday and making it easier for them to wake up in the morning will make their lives more

Yet there are others who see these people as over using the drug for the wrong reason or having the people who need it become addicts overnight from it. In research that I found from actual people giving their opinions on marijuana they said: “We have enough addictive things that are already legal. We don’t need another one.” “It gets too many people on drugs. It would put too many drugs on the street, we don’t need that.” (In Debate Over Legalizing Marijuana, Disagreement Over Drug’S Dangers). The people who have negative opinions towards the helpful effects of marijuana see the drug for the cons over the pros. It may be thought of that marijuana has addictive properties but “it has been proven by the U.S. DEA that there are no additive properties coming from the substance in the form of medical use” (Medical Marijuana). So although there are skeptics towards the drug there is more research to overpower the negative opinions. Overall, there are many different viewpoints, opinions, and perspectives towards the legalization of medical marijuana and marijuana. Some drugs should never have been invented let alone let on the streets for others to abuse it. Yet the drug marijuana is unlike any of those abusive killing drugs it helps the injured and sick live a full and happy life for as long as that may