Legalization of Medical Marijuana versus the Federal Government

Marijuana is categorized with, and they are placed in this restrictive category than drugs like heroin and meth that are in schedule 2. The difference between these two schedules is that schedule 1 is considered a risky drug with no medicinal value while schedule 2 is considered to have drugs with some medicinal value (Hall, Wayne, and Michael Lynskey, 902). There have been many debates on rescheduling marijuana to schedule 2, but there have not been large-scale clinical trials on it. The reason is there are traditional studies that need to be carried out to prove to the federal government that a drug has medical value. The studies have not been well effected as it is more difficult when a drug is strictly regulated like it.

The federal government proponents that the use of the substance by the youths promotes deleterious consequences’. The debate on the legalization of marijuana remains a huge debate that fails to provide substantial evidence of the many health problems associated with its use, a stance that is not supported by this essay. The effects that are advocated by federal laws on this first position on short-term use effects are impaired memory, interference with driving skills and altered judgment. Federal laws indicate that the retention of information by users is inhibited thus making them unable to learn (Hall, Wayne, and Michael Lynskey, 904). The federalism proponents’ presence of paranoia and psychosis when a user consumes vast doses of the product. Position 2 The doctors of patients currently being treated with medical marijuana know it can be a safe and effective treatment for the symptoms of terminal illness, seizure disorders, and chronic diseases.

American College of Physicians (APC) proponents the exemption of marijuana from undergoing federal criminal prosecution. it goes further to advocating for civil liability and professional sanctioning that constitutes credentialing and loss of practice license (Pacula, Rosalie et al. , 13) The association advocates that medicinal marijuana should be well prescribed per the formulated new federal laws due to its accrued benefits. The association further advocates that there should be instituted regulations that protect one from civil or criminal penalties for users as advocated by state laws. In medical corridors, they advocate that for one to reap maximum benefits in its consumption, they can use a means known as the minimal drug interaction. In this way, the user can easily dose themselves by oral ingestion, tropical absorption or even vaporization.

The reason for this is to avoid potential risks that are accrued to smoking wholly. Medically, it is believed that marijuana in its natural state contains 5-15% of THC plus multiple therapeutic cannabinoids. This means that the components work in cahoots to produce analgesia (Hall, Wayne, and Michael Lynskey, 1771). I do not believe it should be in the form of rolled-up joints but instead a medical grade oil. I believe that if medical marijuana is legalized it would cut down on the number of people that become addicted to prescription pain pills. Making medical marijuana federal legal would also generate a tremendous source of revenue for states and the federal government. The legalization of medical marijuana will open doors to allow and encourage further research to enhance the safe use of the extract oils.