Marijuana Should Be Legalized For Medicinal Purposes

Attention getter: Do you suffer from pain, migraines, eating disorders or other sicknesses? If so, you may want to consider marijuana as a treatment.

Central Idea: Marijuana should be legalized for medicinal purposes.

Significance to the audience: This is important to all of use because many of us are misinformed about marijuana and are unaware of its beneficial properties.

Preview of main points: Today I will tell you about why marijuana should be legalized.

Body:

I. What exactly is marijuana?

A) Marijuana is a leafy plant which grows wild in many of the tropic and temperate areas of the world.

1) It is also cultivated both indoors and out for the production of its flowering tops.

2) The most commonly used form of cannabis are the leaves and flowering tops which may be either smoked or eaten

3) It also comes in a more concentrated resinous form called hashish, and as a sticky black liquid called hash oil.

B) There are many beneficial properties to marijuana.

1) The male part of the plant is known as hemp and has no medicinal purposes.

A) It has been successfully utilized to make a thousands of diverse, environmentally friendly products like textiles, paper, oil, rope and canvas.

2) The female plant is enriched with a psychoactive chemical called THC or tetrahydrocannabinol.

A) When inhaled, THC induces a euphoric and sedate effect.

B) THC is beneficial for patients with AIDS wasting syndrome, arthritis, brain injury related with strokes, multiple sclerosis, nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy, anti-tumor effects, asthma, epilepsy, glaucoma, &n...

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...ppears anywhere in the medical record.

A) If a patient tests positive for marijuana because he/she used marijuana several days before the incident occurred, if a drunk driver admits he/she also smoked some marijuana, or if anyone involved in the incident merely possessed marijuana, the government counts the emergency room admission as a "marijuana-related episode."

2)Less than 0.2% of all emergency room admissions are "marijuana related."

Conclusion:

Summary of Main Points: So I’ve just informed you all about the medicinal purposes of marijuana, the beneficial purposes of marijuana in our society, and cleared up some myths about marijuana.

Final Thought: Hopefully the next time a doctor or even a friend offers you marijuana, you ill be more open minded. Just as long as your careful and don’t operate any heavy machinery.