Ever since the 60s and the hippie craze, I never heard anyone claim that pot was good for pain. But since the puking liberals got pot legalized everywhere, it's suddenly the greatest pain killer since aspirin was discovered. Witness all the clueless dead heads who are heavy users.
While the legalization of marijuana may scare some, the benefits are so great that it needs to be implemented everywhere.
A large concern of those opposed to the legalization of marijuana, is that it will be a “Trojan horse,” opening the door for far worse drugs. Legalizing marijuana for medical usage does not mean a free for all of recreational drug usage. The National Institute on Drug Abuse states that majority of people who use marijuana do not go on to other, “harder” substances (
Is marijuana a gateway drug?). It cannot be said that usage leads to worse things for a whole group. All users have different biological makeups and life situations that may have pushed them to this. If there is such a concern for marijuana leading to worse things, then other, more common substances need to be looked at as well. The same websites states “alcohol and nicotine also prime the brain for a heightened response to other drugs and are, like marijuana, also typically used before a person progresses to other more harmful substances.” If it is said that the use of marijuana for medical purposes should not be legalized in fear of it leading to more harmful things… then the same should be said for alcohol and nicotine as well. Ban beer and ban the cigs along with the pot. Marijuana has far better and more important uses that need to be looked at as well.
Once legalized, an actual doctor, not a dealer, will issue you a dispensary card and prescribe medical marijuana to treat seizure disorders, Crohn’s disease, nausea from chemotherapy, muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, and poor appetite and weight loss caused by chronic illnesses like HIV or nerve pain (
Medical Marijuana). The most common usage for medicinal marijuana is pain. Cannabis has shown especially effective in combating neuropathic pain from nerve damage and is less habit-forming than opiate drugs (
7 uses for medical marijuana). Marijuana also carries virtually no risk of a fatal overdose as opposed to opiates. Legalization of medical marijuana could quite possibly lower the rates of addiction and death in opiate drug users.
If you have a Facebook, I guarantee you at some point you have come across a video of the miracle cannabis works on epileptic seizures. Every video begins the same, someone recording their loved one shaking uncontrollably in jerky, painful movements. They administer a drop or two of a liquid form of cannabis and the patient begins to relax, as their body stops the seizing. Cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive compound of cannabis (
Medical Marijuana and Epilepsy) is what is able to help these patients. Watching how quick CBD affects an epileptic patient and helps them is truly amazing. If there is tons of visual evidence, testimonies, and clinical studies, then why are we not legalizing marijuana to help patients everywhere?
Medical marijuana has many purposes and can help varying patients all over. For some patients, whether epileptic, chemo, or CTE stricken, cannabis is their only answer, and we need to help them.
