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This 3 page paper argues that marijuana should be legal in medical applications, and considers such things as advantages, disadvantages, costs and who could benefit from it. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the unpleasant symptoms associated with chemotherapy; they also claim that it can stimulate appetite and provide some degree of pain relief for terminally ill patients. This paper argues in favor
of legalizing marijuana for medical purposes, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of doing so, as well as the cost, government and public reaction to the idea, and what diseases
could be treated this way. Discussion The advantages of legalizing the use of marijuana include the fact that the drug, appears to carry little or no risk of dependency (McCarthy,
2004, p. 333). It is also widely available and can be grown fairly easily; and production should be relatively inexpensive. The medical profession is split on the issue,
but almost half of all oncologists would prescribe it if it were available because there is considerable evidence that it works well as a medicine, indicating that another advantage of
legalization would be the availability of the drug for medical practitioners (Zeese and Ruzzamenti, 1993). Much of the objection to using marijuana in medicine appears to be ideological; the
DEA in particular blocks it because they are still embroiled in their useless "war on drugs" and have classified marijuana "as a drug with no medical use" (Zeese and Ruzzamenti,
1993, p. 23). The authors believe that if people see patients using marijuana and "functioning fine," they will question why its illegal at all (Zeese and Ruzzamenti, 1993, p. 23).
Objections to legalization also rest on the belief that what advocates really want is to make marijuana, and by extension, all drugs, legal for everyone (Zeese and Ruzzamenti, 1993).
Anti-legalization people argue that claims of marijuanas health benefits are based on "pseudo-scientific sources and a number of nameless testimonials" (Zeese and Ruzzamenti, 1993, p. 23). They offer instead this
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