It is a crime against fellow man to deny needy people suffering from many different, unrelated diseases and side effects from a powerful, readily available medicine due to old political policies. A cheap and widespread medicine is available right now in an increasing number of places to combat muscle spasticity, nausea and vomiting, analgesic pain, sleeping difficulty, and depressed appetites. (WorkShop) This banned medicine also has many other valuable resources to offer the country. It can “...provide all the basic necessities of life: food, shelter, clothing and medicine.” (HIA). What is this amazing medicine and commercial element capable of all these things? Cannabis is. This one of a kind plant is the only kind to produce cannabinoids, the chemicals responsible for its unique properties. Currently some form of cannabinoids, also known scientifically as TetraHydroCannabinol (THC), are available by prescription today. Dronabinol, also known as Marinol, has been available since approval in 1985 by prescription nausea reducer for chemo therapy patients and their reactions to the many required drugs as well as an appetite suppressant for AIDS patients, but it’s a syntheti

So this is ridiculous then, and it brings to mind, “All right, well what’s the downside, why didn’t the government legalize medical marijuana long ago?” One thing for sure is that the long pressed view of marijuana as a gateway drug isn’t helpful to its acceptance. People consider it a gateway drug because adolescents often smoke marijuana before they go off into worse and more abusive/addictive drugs. Ask yourself a question, “What percent of teenagers who smoke marijuana for the first time hadn’t ever drank alcohol or maybe even smoked a cigarette?” Mind you doing that is illegal too, since teenagers aren’t old enough to drink or smoke. In a way alcohol and cigarettes are gateway drugs too; youths are just looking for a way to rebel. Adolescents know they aren’t supposed to use alcohol and cigarettes, and marijuana is the same way. The majority of people know it is not near as serious a drug as cocaine, heroin, or crystal methamphetamines.

New developments in the front of medical marijuana have made new treatments available to the public. “The GW (Pharmaceuticals) trails investigated the effectiveness of a ‘whole plant medicinal cannabis extract’, containing active ingredients tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) as its principle components. The drug was delivered as a spray into the mouth.” (NewScientist) This new system shoots down any dispute of marijuana’s lack of practicality since users no longer have to smoke marijuana or take a synthetic pill to benefit from its effects.

In 1976 the Dutch legalized marijuana possession in small amounts. Coffee shops opened up selling marijuana for personal uses to anyone looking to “get high”, not just medical users. According to the governments thinking, by now the Dutch population must have a hardcore, addicted drug scene among its youth and citizens. “Dirk Korf of the Institute of Criminology at the University of Amsterdam has used the smaller studies to estimate that 3 percent of Dutch people had used cannabis at least once in 1970, rising to 12 percent in 1991. Most of that increase, says Korf, is because “lifetime use” figures are cumulative: people who had used it in 1970 are still around, and joined by younger users over

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