'Medical Marijuana: Good or Bad?\r'

'On April 14, 2011, I read an denomination in the New York multiplication that read Pat Robertson Questions Prison for Pot Convictions. (Shear) The article had caught my eye beca expend of who Pat Robertson is and how you wouldn’t think he would be for the legalization of Marijuana. I would ache to come infit with what Pat goes on to say and how I observe a lot of it makes sense. â€Å"I’m non exactly for the exercise of drugs, don’t incur me awry(p), simply I just believe that roughshodizing hemp, criminalizing the self-discipline of a few ounces of pot, that kind of thing, it’s just, it’s costing us a fortune and it’s ruining young battalion,” Mr. Robertson said. Young people go into prisons; they go in as youths and come out as hardened criminals. That’s not a fair thing. ” That is what Pat Robertson, the televangelist who once ran for president, said on his show â€Å"The 700 Club” while mentioni ng how thought hemp being legalized spate be a good thing. I am a 41 twelvemonth old wife and m another(prenominal) who has had her fair dispense of life experiences. My past experiences include using hemp from time to time when I was younger. I never became an avid giver and besides remember having a good time when I used. I distinctively remember how its effects relaxed me more than and put me more at ease.\r\nUnfortunately, prison and jail argon as well as in my past experiences and that’s where I nurture to agree with Mr. Robertson and what he says in this article. I do believe that people being put in jail and prisons for minor marihuana charges is doing n angiotensin-converting enzymentity yet costing us millions in dollars in prosecuting them and subjecting these people to offenders who are there for much more precarious offenses. My marihuana use and jail time had nothing to do with one another. I was sentenced for aboutthing wrong that I had done and w as rightfully sentenced for that crime.\r\nI took it very heavy and did what needed to be done to get rear home and start over. If it’s not interpreted seriously and it’s not used as a positive stepping stone it can be very easy to get caught up with the wrong people and negative drama that jail brings and the notional things good people can learn and find out with them when released. Each year, some 750,000 Americans are arrested for possession of dwarfish cores of marijuana. Is that re eithery what we want our police force to accent on? I am not a Cannabis activist, but the real truth is, I would much rather have pot in bars than alcohol any day.\r\nI am so tired of the fights that break out or all the DUI’s that people get all the time. In most my research, I haven’t found any real statistics on how marijuana poses the same result? Alcohol, which can cause one to become violent and even cause devastation does not compare with marijuana, where one can’t OD or cause death by over-intoxication. A spokesperson for Mr. Robertson goes on to say that Mr. Robertson did not intend to suggest support for the legalization of marijuana, but rather to question the severity of how our political relation punishes those who use or possess a small amount of the drug.\r\nSarah Palin, who is against the legalization of marijuana, has said how she obtains that our police force shouldn’t spend a lot of time hunting down these offenders. The drug policy that our government soon holds also plays a significant role in creating crime and empowering gangs. â€Å"The only groups that pull in from continuing to take note marijuana illegal are the violent gangs and cartels that insure its distribution and reap immense profits from it with the black market”. That is what a group of topical and former police officers, judges, and prosecutors wrote last month in an open letter to voters in California. Kristof) I would have to agree with that statement wholeheartedly. I strongly feel that if marijuana was legalized it would cease some of the violent and criminal activity in society. Legalizing marijuana for aesculapian use is a huge debate inwardly Americans and our government here in the United States. There are 15 states that allow medical marijuana to be distributed legally to its consumers.\r\nHere is a list of some of the medical issues that can be helped by the use of marijuana: * offend Relief ( all types of Pain one might have) * Increases appetite (Cancer) * Decreased unwellness (AIDS/Cancer) Muscle relaxation (Multiple Sclerosis/Epileptic Seizures) * Enhances mood and senses (Depression and anxiety) * Encourages drowsiness and sleep (Multiple Sclerosis, Depression, Cancer and more) These are only some of the many medical issues that can be improved and benefited by the medicinal use of Marijuana. (Uddin/Hurd) subsequently reading all the great ways marijuana can help someone when suffer ing from a medical problem makes you wonder why more states haven’t joined in on legalizing it. There is more evidence in condescension up the pro than the con side of this litigation.\r\nI now want to introduce to you, Don Lisk, 57, and Sarah Baugh, twain from Montana and both being prescribed medical marijuana for medicinal purposes, tell us of their experiences. In short, Don suffers from chronic fend for pain he has had for 20 years and tells us marijuana dulls the back pain enough to let him sleep burst at night. He also says how pot takes the march on off the pain and he doesn’t suffer the withdrawal he experiences with the opiates such as Lortab. Sarah Baugh, 25, of Billings suffered 12 seizures a day while taking 14 medications that cost $2,000 a month.\r\nBy using marijuana, she deprive herself off most of her medications and now takes just a small dose of anti-seizure medication. Baugh trimmed her drug cost from $2,000 to less than $600 a month. She dro pped 150 pounds, lost the tremors and seizures. (weedblog. com) I have come to find out that marijuana can be used to produce unripened fuel for autos. How, because of its root structure, it makes the best erosion control. The oils from the seeds can be great for cooking. Just some other ways that marijuana can benefit within our society.\r\nI strongly agree that medical marijuana should be legalized and I also agree that marijuana use can be made beneficial and profitable for all parties involved. The economy would benefit by adding revenue and tax money. By providing it in a safe and regulated way it benefits those who need medical relief, and last but not least it would benefit society by allowing police to concentrate on more violent crimes and criminal activity. The only truthful losers to the legalization and decriminalization of marijuana are those who allow to make great deals of money from the illegal sales of pot and the transportation of it into the United States.\r\ n'