Legalization of Marijuana, Social_Issues, College Term Papers.com


		Data Bases
		• Custom Term Papers • Free Term Papers • Free Research Papers • Free Essays • Free Book Reports • Plagiarism?

		Links
		• Top 100 Term Paper Sites • Top 25 Essay Sites • Top 50 Essay Sites • Search 97,000 Papers @ DirectEssays.com • Search 101,000 Papers @ ExampleEssays.com • Search 90,000 Papers @ MegaEssays.com

		Free Essays
		• Term Paper Sites • Chuck III's Free Essays • Free College Essays • TermPaperSites.com • My Term Papers • Get Free Essays • Essay World • Planet Papers

Search Lots of Essays

Back to Subjects - Social Issues

legalization of marijuana

legalization of marijuana There are many people that are very sick in this world. They don’t want to live no more. If marijuana makes them happy. If it makes them feel like their old self again, then I’m all for the legalization for medical purposes only. It has been proven that marijuana helps out very ill patients. With no other treatment options. Many patients say that it makes them feel stronger. Scott a patient on marijuana says “ that marijuana is a good medicine.” But the feds need more proof than that. Marijuana can be used to treat pain in many ways. For nausea, appetite loss caused by advanced cancer and Aids, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, and other ailments. Most medical marijuana users are males usually in their forties and suffering from Aids. The next most common users for medical marijuana are cancer patients. If marijuana does become legal it will be under strict medical oversight. There are many other ways to get the same effect without actually smoking the marijuana. There is already a pill called marinol, the only legal one out. Several small companies are developing smokeless cigarettes, new pills, an inhaler and even a marijuana suppository. Still, all of that is years away. In march a federal judge in Pennsylvania dismissed challenges to a lawsuit seeking to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, at issue was the governments “compassionate use” policy, which allows only a handful of seriously ill patients to take the drug legally, while denying it to others. I am against that so called “compassionate use” policy. If two people are in pain, but one is near death and the other is not. You can not give one medicine and make the other suffer. Even if they did, how would they determine the cut off line for how sick you were, whether or not you could get marijuana. Many people who are for the legalization of marijuana are also for legalizing it for everyone. I am very much against that. I feel that marijuana is a gateway drug it leads to heavier drugs like heroin or cocaine. If you were to ask around you would find that almost every user of cocaine and heroin started on marijuana. I also feel that smoking anything just for the goal of getting high is morally wrong. If marijuana was legal there would be as many people smoking it. As people now smoke cigarettes. When things are legal most people feel that it cannot be very harmful or the government wouldn’t have made it legal. If marijuana was legal all the people that abuse it now would abuse it even more. Plus many people that were scared to use it before would start and a lot would not be able to stop. They would start on heavier drugs like cocaine, crack or heroin. This whole country would be filled with a bunch of drug addicts that had no common goal except sitting around and getting high. Which would cause more crime. If people sat around high all day, they probably wouldn’t work. They would need money for there drugs, so they would steal. All I can say is this world would be a total disaster if marijuana was legal, you would have to get high yourself just to put up with it Bibliography:

Word Count: 549