Should_Marijuana_Be_Legalized_As_A_Medication_

Should Marijuana Be Legalized As A Medication' Should Marijuana Be Legalized as a Medication' Drs. Lester Grinspoon and Eric Voth present arguments for and against the legalization of marijuana in the paper dated June 1994, “Issue 8 Should Marijuana Be Legalized as a Medication'” A web search reveals that Grinspoon is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard with a long history of pro-drug publications. A search on Voth reveals that he has had a number of positions with anti-drug organizations and causes, as well as a similarly long history of anti-drug publications. An interesting side note is that it appears that St. Francis Hospital in Topeka, Kansas (Voth’s employer at the time this paper was published) no longer has a drug dependency unit. Grinspoon presents a number of arguments for the legalization of marijuana. His primary argument is medical, he asserts that marijuana is extremely useful in treating a variety of conditions including: nausea due to chemotherapy, elevated eye pressure due to glaucoma, and loss of appetite and nausea in AIDS patients. Grinspoon makes the point that treatment with marijuana is very beneficial, but because it is illegal, patients must either go without treatment or commit a crime to obtain their medication. marijuana, drug, grinspoon, voth, states, law, asserts, should, been, taxes, studies, society, prohibition, patients, medical, drugs, united, tobacco, tax, physicians, legalized, legalization, arguments, traffickers, thc, several, research, require, receptors, prevent, organizations, number, nausea, must, medication