Medical Marijuana

I agree with my classmate, Paige Dausin's article Medical Cannabis: 21 States to Go that we should legalize marijuana for medical use.

           

Medical marijuana has great benefits for people suffering from PTSD, anxiety, seizures, sleep issues and others health issues. Its also been found that it can help recovering heroin addicts from getting off heroin. Its safer and non-addictive like the pharmaceutical drugs out there today. Unfortunately the federal government still does not recognize the medicalization of marijuana and you can still be arrested it for by federal agents even if your state has legalized it. Even worse since its not recognized federally that its not protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), so even if your doctor has prescribed the Marijuana you can still be fired from your job for using it.

           

            We need the rest of American to recognize that marijuana can be used as medicine that will benefit the people who use it and get over the old propaganda from the Regan era. Once we get the federal government to recognize it then we can start giving the American people more alternatives then just using pharmaceutical drugs.