Comp/155 Week 9 Assignment

Week 9 Final Essay

Comp/155

Melissa Mitchell

March 30, 2013

Medical Marijuana

“Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It’s an outrage within an outrage with in an outrage”

~ Peter McWilliams~

Author and Advocate for Medical Marijuana

As I sit here studying and reviewing of all the information regarding medical marijuana, the struggles and the advancements over the last 25 years to make it legal for the medically sick and dying to purchase, cultivate, and consume marijuana. Not to be putting them in an already over crowed criminal justice system punished and prosecuted as criminals, there is no benefit to prosecuting the dying? The only answer is to increase the awareness and making the public knowledgeable of the therapeutic values and properties of marijuana

Experts who have been studying the potentials of marijuana, found out that marijuana can be used to treat many different conditions. Such as, glaucoma, high blood pressure, multiple sclerosis, AIDS, and cancer. Marijuana has the effects of as increased appetites, reduced nausea, and increase blood flow, and heart rate, relaxation and reduces stress. The use of marijuana for medical reasons have been in use for over several thousand years. Egyptians use cannabis for glaucoma inflammation and enemas. Cannabis pollen was found on the mummy of Remeses II, who died in 1213 BC. In 1000 BC, in Bhang India a cannabis drink mixed with milk, is used and anesthetic and anti-phlegmatic. With a plant as...