Marijuana could be considered, and is by many, more of a beneficial herb than a harmful drug. Just like any other drug (caffeine or pain relievers for example), marijuana is not harmful if used in moderation, and many doctors will agree on this point. Marijuana is safer, le

One of the most widely known effects of marijuana is the effect it has on one’s memory. Heavy use of the drug leads to significant short-term memory loss. “In a survey of one hundred-fifty marijuana using students, fifty-nine percent reported that they sometimes forgot what a conversation is about before it has ended. Forty-one percent reported that if they read while they were stoned they remembered less of what they had read hours later. (Dr. Richard Schwartz, Vienna Pediatric Associates in Psychiatric Annals as reported in NIDA Capsules) The effects of marijuana on short term memory is still significant for up to twenty-four hours after last use and with continued use it can be permanent.

ss addictive, and has many more benefits than some legal drugs used in today’s medicine, such as morphine or cocaine. According to Marijuana As Medicine marijuana is one of the safest therapeutical drugs known and could be used to replace as much as thirty percent of all prescription drugs on the market today.

Marijuana posses many medical benefits which could be used by wide variety of patients. In fact Physician’s Association for AID’s Care and National Lymphoma Foundation, among others, all support the movement for legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes to treat the terminally ill. For people with glaucoma, when marijuana is smoked it has been shown to reduce the intraocular pressure that causes damage to the optic nerve. Out of all the drugs produced for patients with glaucoma none has been proven to be more effective than marijuana. AID’s victims can also use marijuana to stimulate their appetites (which they often lose due to medication and therapies they receive) enabling them to fight of emaciation. Cancer patients can use marijuana to relieve them from severe nausea that often results after chemotherapy. “In the case of multiple Sclerosis, ma

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