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Medical Marijuana: A Survey of Teenagers and Their Parents
By Richard H. Schwartz
The article began with the author giving details about how the study was conducted and who the participants were, along with the main goals. ... The 24 question survey was given out at pediatric offices when the teens and parents came for their yearly physicals. ... The main focus of the study was to get their opinions of whether or not the passage of a law to legalize medical marijuana would affect the ability for teens to purchase and smoke marijuana illegally. ...
Marijuana is a drug that is usually smoked out of a pipe or rolled in a joint, and then lit and smoked like a cigarette, by burning it the most amount of THC is released. THC is the drug in marijuana that slows downs the body’s functions and creates gaps in nerve sensors, a side affect is hunger. THC is used for medical purposes in patients to induce hunger as well as remove some bodily pain in terminally ill patients and kemo therapy patients. By legalizing marijuana it would let prescribed patients grow and posses up to one ounce of marijuana only by prescription.
Approximate Word count = 907
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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