ate the need to even pursue research on the subject”.—Drug Enforcement Administration. Is another example of one of the myths that are spread about marijuana. In 1995, The Journal of Addictive Diseases printed another myth saying “Marijuana has no medical value. Safer, more effective drugs are available, including a synthetic version of THC, marijuana’s primary active ingredient, which is marketed in the United States under the name Marinol”. But it is a known fact that marijuana has been shown to be effective in reducing nausea induced by cancer chemotherapy, stimulating appetite in AIDS patients, and reducing intraocular pressure in people with gluacoma. There is also appreciable evidence that marijuana reduces muscle spasticity in patients with neurological disorders. A synthetic THC capsule is available by prescription, but it is not as effective as smoked marijuana for many patients. Pure THC may also produce more unpleasant psychoactive side effects than smoked marijuana. Many people use marijuana as a medicine today, despite its illegality. In doing so they risk arrest and imprisonment. Which says that marijuana should be closely looked into if people who are sick are taking it as medicine but taking a risk of going to jail for it.“Marijuana is a gateway drug. Even if marijuana itself causes minimal harm, it is a dangerous substance because it leads to the use of harder drugs like heroin, LSD, and cocaine.”“Children who have used marijuana are 85 times likelier to use cocaine than children who have not used marijuana”—Center on Addiction & Substance Abuse. Those two quotes are ones of many said about marijuana. Marijuana does not cause people to use hard drugs. What the gateway theory presents as a casual explanation is a statistical association between common and uncommon drugs, an association that changes over time as different drugs increase and decrease i...
