When medical patients are suffering from serious illnesses doctors need a safe and effective way to relieve patients of their symptoms and pain. Medical marijuana provides a less toxic alternative to other opiates and drugs. It is also less likely to be addictive than stronger drugs like morphine, oxycodone and hydrocodone that are derived from poppies.
“The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS”
-Joycelyn Elders, MD Former US Surgeon General
The Drug Enforcement Administration ranks Marijuana as a Schedule 1 drug with other substances such as heroin, LSD and ecstasy.
Schedule I drugs are considered the most dangerous class of drugs with a high potential for abuse and potentially severe psychological and/or physical dependence.
-DEA
Marijuana also ranks higher than cocaine, methamphetamine, and oxycodone. Medical marijuana and chemicals such as THC and CBD have shown effectiveness in relieving symptoms of nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients and pain and muscle spasticity associated with AIDS/HIV. Marijuana has been smoked widely in Western Europe for more than four decades and hasn't been directly linked to any deaths.
Imagine this: One day, you found out your mother was very sick. She was suffering and in an incredible amount of pain. Your doctor told you there was a drug that could stop her pain, but for political reasons, he couldn't prescribe it. This drug is marijuana.
Schedule I drugs are considered the most dangerous class of drugs with a high potential for abuse and potentially severe psychological and/or physical dependence.
-DEA
Marijuana also ranks higher than cocaine, methamphetamine, and oxycodone. Medical marijuana and chemicals such as THC and CBD have shown effectiveness in relieving symptoms of nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients and pain and muscle spasticity associated with AIDS/HIV. Marijuana has been smoked widely in Western Europe for more than four decades and hasn't been directly linked to any deaths.
Imagine this: One day, you found out your mother was very sick. She was suffering and in an incredible amount of pain. Your doctor told you there was a drug that could stop her pain, but for political reasons, he couldn't prescribe it. This drug is marijuana.
Scientists say that, marijuana users by age 17, have a 2.1 to 5.2 but, marijuana doesn't have the same type of addiction that drugs such as tobacco has. To stay high on tobacco you have to take it daily to stay ‘high’. Whereas you take marijuana to make you feel good for a day or so. There is no defined withdrawal symptoms such as with cigarettes or opiates. Marijuana is not something you take on a daily basis and is usually abandoned in early adulthood. However marijuana isn't all good and can be a 'gateway' for other, stronger, drugs and should only be used in a secure hospital environment.
Marijuana has been shown to be a safe and effective drug that gets too much negative criticism. Marijuana was featured in an article by Popular Science in 1936 telling of how it causes insanity. It shows promising benefits to terminally ill patients and other high pain diseases. Marijuana can be addictive, but compared to tobacco and alcohol, is a much better alternative.
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