Medical Marijuana: The Miracle Drug
...e medicine I am talking about is marijuana. A well known illegal substance that contains THC which is often used for getting high. II. A. Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances know. There has never been any recorded deaths due to an overdose. It is beneficial in the treatment of many conditions including AIDS, glaucoma, cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and chronic pain. Many patients also reported that it useful in treating arthritis, migraines, menstrual cramps, alcoholism, depression, and other mood disorders. B. The people who are currently suffering from these conditions and legal medical options have been proven unsafe or ineffective have two options. They could either suffer in pain and live with the problems their condition brings, or they could illegally use marijuana and risk many consequences including 1. Scarcity and high price 2. Contaminated or laced marijuana 3. Arrest, fines, court costs, incarceration, probation, and c criminal records. III. The history of medical marijuana date back nearly 5,000 years ago. Western medicine embraced marijuana’s medical properties in the mid-1800s, and by the beginning of the 20th century physicians had published more than 100 papers in the western medical literature recommending its use for a variety of disorders. At least 27 medicines containing marijuana were legally available in the united states. The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 federally prohibited marijuana. Decades later its medical uses were forgotten, and marijuana was considered a dangerous and addictive narcotic. The high increase of recrea...