Topic: 5 reasons for global marijuana legalization (Read 3588 times)

As a means of providing immediate pain relief for cancer patients, scientists have begun conducting clinical research on delivering medical cannabis concentrates through an inhaler.

This new method of delivery will increase accessibility for cancer patients who are treated with long-term pharmaceutical cannabis (such as sublingual tablets), and those suffering from acute cancer pain who prefer to avoid smoking cannabis.

“Every piece of clinical research that helps manage treatment using medical cannabis is important. Delivering treatment via inhalation is characterized by a quicker response time than oral or sublingual tablets,” said Dr. Itay Gur-Aryeh, Director of the Pain Unit at Sheba Hospital, Tel Hashomer,

The inhaler includes an attached vaporizer to which the patient adds the measured dose of cannabis extract for inhalation. The cannabis extract includes a precise dose of active ingredients.

Maybe right but if you are not crazy you would not drink  muriatic acid. Unlikr the weed in which we all know its benefits  i dont want to see most of us walking on the street feeling so high

Anybody can do substance abuse with thousands of things right in their home. For example, using standard household products and soaps, you can make meth... a kind that doesn't need to be cooked... and is a thousand times worse for you than pot.

The whole drug war thing is a method for bringing people into slavery in one way or another. Legalizing stuff that has been free to use for thousands of years, takes the freedom out of it, and away from the people. It brings money into Government.

Get Government out of your life. Don't legalize or illegalize. Let people be free.

Basically i would have to agree on the reason number 2. It can really cure some serious health problems especially cancer. However for me it is still not a reason for the government to legalize it. This might lead to any abuse of the substance. However i would not also agree to illegalized the substance as it ca give a lot of benefits

No surprise at all. Portugal legalized all drugs (both soft-drugs like marijuana and peyote, and hard drugs such as heroin and LSD) in 2001. In 2015, the number of deaths due to drug overdose had declined by a startling 75% (i.e number of deaths are just 1/4th of that in 2001). Not just that. Rate of continuation of drug usage went down from 45% to 28%. HIV infection rates among injecting drug users declined from 42 per million to just 6 per million!

States with legalized marijuana find a 25% decrease in painkiller associated deaths.

The 13 states that had legalized medicinal marijuana between 1999 to 2010 have found a 25% decrease in deaths due to overdose of legally prescribed opioids, according to a study by the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2014.

if you ask me, all drugs should be legal, so natural selection can step in place. If people want to do drugs, they'll always find a way to get them.

if you ask me, all drugs should be legal, so natural selection can step in place. If people want to do drugs, they'll always find a way to get them.

Social media, though often the subject of severe criticism of our youth, has caused radical changes to our political

system, even though we don't notice it.

As we saw the legalization of gay marriage in the USA, I saw it not as legalization, but rather, an "unblock" on civil

liberties of a group of people.

Such is the same for marijuana legalization. For the sake of simplicity, neglected from the article are very important

points such as; The military industrial complex, the failed war on drugs and its burden on the taxpayer

So, without further bantering, here are my five arguments!

1) Civil liberty

This is number 1 because in this case, it does not matter if you are using marijuana for recreational (to just get high!

), medicinal (there are several applications), spiritual, or religious purposes, but because, as a Libertarian, I

believe that the principles of liberties are universal. If a group of people by general consensus can claim ownership

over your civil liberties by a 51% vote, then there is obviously a moral issue there, making the concerned human being

very undemocratic.

2) Medicinal

Marijuana has many medicinal uses, in my case, mental health. Research funded by the US government (Yes, the same people

who schedule it as a drug with no medicinal value, shows that marijuana acts on the same receptors of the brain as

benzodiazepine drugs do, which are prescribed as a commercial treatment for generalized anxiety disorder today. Of

course, cannabis is less stronger, which also makes it less addictive, and it bears none of the side effects that the

pharmaceutical drugs do. There have been very few deaths attributed to medicinal marijuana use. There are none that I am

aware of.

3) Cultural

Marijuana has been a part of several cultural practices. Ancient civilizations have been using the plant for ceremonies

for thousands of years. A lot of these civilizations have been subject to erasure due to post colonialism under the

corporatocracy. It is only fair that they be allowed to partake in cultural traditions, as Americans do with their

alcohol.

4) Religious

Human beings are very religious people. I myself am opposed to several organized religions, including Christianity,

Judaism, and Islam (No debating!). However, by imposing my religious views (or lack, thereof) on a religious group of

people would make me guilty of the very same vices that I accuse them of.

5) Prohibition was founded on a lie

We were told that marijuana was dangerous, that it can lead to permanent psychosis, cause schizophrenia (this is the

"vaccines cause autism" of our times and has no scientific basis), and corrupt our youth by having them lead immoral and

destitute lives. However, several states have done well under legalization, reducing addiction and crime rates in just a

few years (Colorado is one example)

Please discuss, but be civil! Thou hast been warned..

Can you explain your reasoning for not allowing recreational use?  Not allowing medical use is criminal,  recreational use should be legal imo  because why not?  Coffee, alcohol, nicotine, chocolate and tea are all legal and most of these have far worse health implications than marijuana.

I agree that it should be legalize the main reason is for its medicinal use according to some article that i have read before Marijuana can be used to treat and prevent the eye disease glaucoma, which increases pressure in the eyeball, damaging the optic nerve and causing loss of vision. And i cam be very helpful to those people who have epilepsy .

2) Medicinal

Marijuana has many medicinal uses, in my case, mental health. Research funded by the US government (Yes, the same people

who schedule it as a drug with no medicinal value, shows that marijuana acts on the same receptors of the brain as

benzodiazepine drugs do, which are prescribed as a commercial treatment for generalized anxiety disorder today. Of

course, cannabis is less stronger, which also makes it less addictive, and it bears none of the side effects that the

pharmaceutical drugs do. There have been very few deaths attributed to medicinal marijuana use. There are none that I am

aware of.

Marijuana has never been a threat for any health issue, it is the media that putting bad image on it. In fact, marijuana is way safer than alcohol and cigarette.

I think government made it illegal for businesses like alcohol and cigarette to profit.

Here in our country there are group of people who are pushing it to be legalized as it has medicinal value.  I just watched it like a few days ago, a documentary about an epileptic two year old girl.  Because of the hard times her mother seeing her child suffering like that, she learned upon seeing and researching on the internet that marijuana is such a big help/treatment.  There are group of people and some doctors here who are pushing marijuana to be legalized.  On the limit of, it has to be requested by a certain patient who needed the cannabis oil, the oil that was extracted from marijuana that according to them can treat cancer and epilepsy.