Legalizing_Marijuana_For_Medicinal_Purposes_(pro)

Legalizing Marijuana For Medicinal Purposes (pro) In the U.S., cannabis sativa, which is better known as marijuana, is illegal for medicinal purposes because federal law includes it in Schedule I, a category for drugs deemed unsafe, highly subject to abuse, and possessing no medicinal value. After many scientific researches and people investigating the evidence, this has been proven to be quite inaccurate. First of all, Francis L. Young, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s chief administrative law judge, concluded not only that marijuana’s medical utility had been adequately demonstrated, but also that marijuana had been shown to be “one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man” (“Medical Marijuana Briefing…”). He also ruled that marijuana has legitimate medical applications and should be available to doctors. Lyn Nofziger, former deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee, said, “Marijuana clearly has medicinal value. Thousands of seriously ill Americans have been able to determine that for themselves, although illegally. Like my own family, these individuals did not wish to break the law but they had no other choice” (Marijuana Rx). Only eight people today receive marijuana through a federal “compassionate use” program which stopped admitting new patients in 1992 after the number of applications, mostly from AIDS patients, increased dramatically. marijuana, people, medical, patients, drugs, schedule, drug, aids, report, national, medicinal, been, under, should, purposes, legal, cannabis, available, vomiting, treatment, therapeutic, take, organizations, new, nas, marinol, law, known, ii, health, glaucoma, found, federal