America Needs Medical Marijuana

What would the life be like if you could purchase marijuana anywhere and everywhere? The humannhealth website seems to think “If marijuana were legal short-term cognitive impairment would be active in more people.” (humannhealth.com)This would be an extreme risk to the youth of America by acquiring more access to the drug, it would cause them to have the effects including but not limited to; not being able to accomplish a goal they might have had. There are positive things that can come from this like helping people with seizures, arthritis, cancer, and AIDS. The positive effects would help someone to the point where they would outweigh the bad effects on that person. If marijuana is legalized medical patients are the only ones that need access to this drug because the drug then becomes a help rather than a hazard.

The Background of marijuana is important when creating other drugs, using the drug for other purposes like protein, knowing what the effects could be because where it originated, and many other things. “Marijuana was first discovered by china around 4000 b.c. and was used for hemp fiber to make rope.”(thinkquest.org) In present day using hemp for things such as protein is not abnormal, in protein from its perfectly legal and is good for the body. Hemp protein is a good natural vitamin that will add things like zinc, fiber, and magnesium to your everyday diet. As thinkquest.org also explains very greatly “The actual smoking of marijuana was not introduced in the U.S. until the 1920’s when it was brought over by mexico.”(thinkquest.org) Mexico is a great producer and supplier of many drugs that are brought into America, marijuana being one of them.

Marijuana has been as issue from many years now. As a youtube document explains “Harry j. Anslinger united states first drugzar for him public enemy number one was marijuana. Turning the employers against their employee says that mexicans and such were using these drugs during work and it was messing with their minds and they would rape their children and wives.”(youtube.com) There have been movies made to prevent people from using it and an uncountable amount of protest for and against the use of the drug. “Marijuana first became illegal in 1937, and by 1970’s this drug was in high demand” (youtube.com) No matter how hard the laws that prevent the use of marijuana are enforced americans are still going to use it.