uana is a gateway drug that often leads to harder drugs. This argument is easily disproved by the fact that use of hard drugs in the Netherlands has decreased significantly since marijuana was legalized (Medical Marijuana 23). Parents are often worried that prescription marijuana will mean that more of it will get into the hands of kids. Some of these parents have prescriptions for Morphine, Prozac, Zoloft, Dexedrine, or countless other mood-altering drugs which they successfully keep out of their childrens hands. Marijuana should be reclassified so that its unique medical value can be legally utilized to treat patients. How long would the loudest opponent of medicinal marijuana live incapacitated by nausea or Marinol before he would turn to marijuana? Maybe opponents should spend a month or two in chemotherapy before they deny patients the most effective means of relief....
