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Marijuana for Medical
Treatment: A proposal for reform
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| The problem is a simple one that is hard to fix. Marijuana is illegal you cannot posses it or sell it at all period. This is a problem because just like my friends father thousands of people benefit from its use daily. These people aren't risk of being arrested and publicly embarrass because they are simply trying to give them selves some relief from there life altering disease. Most of these people are shy of the fact that they do it themselves, they don't like it that other people know about there use. Since it is like this these people have no desire to sell the drug and they are paranoid about buying it, usually it comes from another family member, which puts that person at risk as well. And for what to help the people that find relief from this drug were not talking about pothead kids trying to legalize the drug completely. " Marianne Apostolides of the pro-legalization Lindesmith Center wrote in the Wall Street Journal, "Marijuana is safer than other substances such as nicotine and steroids. Most people who use marijuana have no problem with it."(Pros and Cons of Drug legalization, Decriminalization, and harm reduction, hearing before congress)We are talking about trying to have some way to get this drug to the people that actually need the drug like my friends father for an example. Rep. Barney Frank (D-Ma.) supports legalization. " We make a mistake, with the serious law enforcement problems we have today, to get the police to arrest people who smoke marijuana… We are wasting $10 billion a year trying to physically interdict drugs." (Pros and Cons of Drug legalization, Decriminalization, and harm reduction, hearing before congress) This people are not criminals and they don't wish to be they are normal people that have gotten a bad hand dealt to them and are trying to maintain there life. Trying to go around the system by means of home growing is a huge risk for these people, if they do pull it off they are always looking behind them or they get caught trying to help themselves and face jail time and many fines. As of the present there is no way of legally obtaining marijuana for most of these people. If there were some way to get it to these people it would greatly reduce the risk that gets put on the family. Remember it affects all of the family not just the person who is suffering. |
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