Medical Marijuana.

You know, although I am a recreational marijuana user, I always thought that it should be kept illegal. I thought that if legalized, it would be used for all the wrong reasons.

After having looked into it a little bit, I have switched sides.

I thought that the inevitable gain in popularity for the drug would attract the wrong kind of user. People who want to use the drug to fit in, people who want to use the drug to look cool. Those aren't the type of people who should use marijuana. Marijuana's noteriety started with misconceptions. It is proven that alcohol AND cigarettes are worse for your overall health than marijuana. I'm not saying that marijuana can't give you cancer or slowly kill you, but it's not as bad as people make it sound. Facts like "there is the same amount of tar in 1 joint as 10 cigarettes," although true, taint opinions. Most recreational users might have a joint or two a day. Cigarette user are known to smoke up to and over a pack of 25 a day, balances out if you ask me, until you talk about the thousands and thousands of harmful chemicals put into tobacco.

Most notably, the sick should be allowed to smoke weed. Not that 12.5% THC level junk. If the higher dose stuff is too debilitating, put a warning on it like all the other medicine out there. To charge the dying poor 1,500% more than cost for second class medicine isn't fair. I realize that the street market stuff is twice as much, but if it's the difference between pain and relief, who wouldn't? Scientists are STILL finding useful medicinal properties in marijuana. It can help a wide variety of patients with their pain. If you're saying, "hey, so can morphine!" your overlooking the fact that morphine is extremely addictive, and in some ways similar to heroin.

If your put off by the fact that its unnatural to put smoke in your body, remember that you can use intruments that heat the thc content to activate it, but doesnt create smoke or burn the weed.

I could go on, but ive decided to post comments.