Why Marijuana is an ideal medical drug?
Marijuana has many nicknames for instance, weed, Mary Jane, reefer, chronic, and pot. Marijuana is from “the cannabis indicia plant or cannabis sativa plant.”( Nordqvist) Society categorized marijuana is as a gateway drug, or an abusive drug. On the contrary, marijuana is beneficial in the medical terms more than just a drug to “feel good”. Considering that marijuana is an illegal drug in most states, it is less harmful to the other illegal drugs such as cocaine, meth, and ecstasy. Studies have shown that “marijuana has been used medically for over five thousand years, with the earliest accounts dating back to China in the third millennium, B.C.” (Pfeifer 23). Even during the era of the thirteen colonies, Thomas Jefferson grew marijuana or hemp to make rope or local consumption. Marijuana has been in this world for many centuries so for the United States to declare it an illegal drug is wrong. Marijuana has the chemical tetrahydrocannabinol, or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol, THC for short. THC has the painkilling effects like morphine but without the addictive trait. Marijuana is known to stimulate appetite or “munchies” which can aid people whom have poor eating habits. The media even portrays marijuana as a way to relax and relief stress, angry and anxiety. This generation heavily influences the use of marijuana. Marijuana is consumed in many ways such as smoking, inhaling vapor, pills, or in powder form. There is a great debate between the government and the people about the marijuana laws. However, sixteen states have legalized medicinal marijuana including Colorado, Washington, California, Delaware, Hawaii, and Maine.
If those sixteen states were able to legalize medicinal marijuana then we are only thirty-four states away. What is stopping this country in
