Monday, April 11, 2016
Medical Marijuana
Over time we have been told how marijuana is a bad drug, its also a gate way drug, and that it is harmful to the body in many ways, I'm here to disprove those theories and skepticism. All my life its I've been told that marijuana will ruin lives and that its bad for you, but in my research I've found out that cannabis actually has a wide variety of benefits that come with it. My brother, Adom, had stage 3 almost stage 4 lymphoma and I believe if it wasn't for his consumption of cannabis he wouldn't be alive. Not only did the bud give him an appetite and help get his mind off the chemo but one of the active ingredients in marijuana cannabidiol, or CBD, actually helped stop the spread and growth of the cancerous cells. The CBD acts as a switch inside the cancerous cells and actually turns off a gene called ID-1 and makes the cells less aggressive spreaders. Because of this "drug" my brother is alive and healthy with no signs of cancer or cancerous cells. Also another theory is that marijuana is a gate way drug which in reality its the dealer that's the gate way. If they made it to where stores were only selling marijuana products it would be a lot harder to get introduced to other drugs. Without a drugs dealer there's no way kids/adults could be tempted to buy other things that will actually hurt them in the long run. Marijuana has a lot of benefits medically and those should be exploited and shown to the public instead of treating worse it or the user worse than they really should be. That's how i feel about medical marijuana and how we should realize its not that bad of a "drug."
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I completely agree with this. My mom had leukemia so she couldn’t use medical marijuana because it could lower her white blood count more but being on the cancer floor I witnessed so many people in pain. I don’t know if medical marijuana is legal in North Carolina, I’m not very informed on that topic but I completely agree with the pain thing. Out of all the drugs marijuana has benefits. Right on for defending and stating your opinion on a touchy topic!!
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ReplyDeleteI totally agree! I believe the benefits definitely outweigh the negative effects and medical marijuana should be legal in the United States because it has had obvious benefits dealing with small health problems to things such as cancer. Rather than the prescription drugs given at the pharmacy more people should be using marijuana as medicine.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that about CBD. I think it is interesting that any medicine one takes has a repercussion, even when people think there are none; for example, with the stomach-acid reducer, Prilosec, there were no known lasting side effects and people take huge doses of it on a daily basis for chronic heartburn and gastritis. Now research is coming out that it may accelerate the rate at which dementia comes on. Then, you look over at Cannabis, a drug with centuries of research, if you will, and I just keep reading good about it. Smoking it is about the worst danger, and there is really no need to smoke it now with the many alternative ways of taking it.
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