Essays on Medical cannabis

Should Marijuana be Legalized for AIDS Use? Fifteen years ago the word AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) was barely used in the United States. Today, it’s on the cover of every newspaper, and parents and kids discuss it regularly in the household. It is no longer considered someone else’s problem; it is now everyone’s problem….

  Marijuana. Pot. Bud. Grass. Mary Jane. Weed. Hash. The Devil’s lettuce. These are all common labels for cannabis. However, this may be soon to change. New research with cannabis may prove the effectiveness of cannabis and its byproducts in the treatment of several severe and chronic diseases. Soon, those negative terms will become positive…

TO SMOKE OR NOT TO SMOKE; A CANNABIS ODYSSEYBy Lester Grinspoon MDEvery age has its peculiar folly and if Charles Mackay, the author of the 19th century classic, Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds were alive today he would surely see “cannabinophobia” as a popular delusion along with the “tulipmania” and “witch hunts”…

In the debate over medical marijuana, the primary justification advanced by its supporters is that marijuana use, especially by terminally ill patients, diminishes their “suffering from unnecessary chronic and unbearable pain that persists until death. ” Currently, Washington D. C. and eighteen states have approved and finalized medical marijuana rules: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut,…

The problem is that the long-standing and unjust prohibition of the psychoactivedrug marijuana has been lifted by voters in Arizona and California. Under thenew law, doctors can prescribe marijuana to those patients who can possiblybenefit from the drug’s medicinal purposes. Used for alleviating pain andsuffering, the drug can provide needed relief for many people. However,…

Should Cannabis Sativa, also known as marijuana, be legalized in the United States of America?Many people think the answer to this question is yes, although others think it should stay illegal. There are many points on both sides of this controversial issue. There are many groups are on both sides of the line that have…

For many years now there has been a constant argument over whether or not the medicinal uses of marijuana are enough to overlook the side effects of the drug and make it legal for medical use in the United States. To many people, when they think of the plant marijuana, technically known as Cannabis Sativa,…

People have been using Marijuana as a medicine for thousands of years, beginning in China, India, and the Middle East. The plant”s therapeutic potential became known in Western countries during the nineteenth century. From 1840 to 1900, more than a hundred articles on cannabis appeared in European and American medical journals, recommending it as an…

Marijuana should be decriminalized in Canada. The century old debate on whether or not marijuana should be legalized in Canada has been a question since the beginning of time. Marijuana is used world wide. Every country in the world has a different look on marijuana. The range is widespread, in Holland its looked upon as…

Marijuana is a green, brown, or gray mixture of dried, shredded flowers and leavesof the hemp plant, Cannabis sativa. Marijuana is often called by street names such as pot,herb, weed, boom, Mary Jane, gangster, reefer, or chronic. There are more than 200 slangCannabis was acknowledged as early as 2,700 BC in Chinese manuscripts. Marijuana has…