When a family member pain can be helped with marijuana, we should focus on well-being of the patient. This paper will reflect over if the US Government should legalize marijuana. It will look at the cons and pros. Last it will explain this is important throughout the paper. There is no argument that this is a drug. Everyone knows the risk of using drugs.
They would take advantage of this situation, like the abuse of Medicaid fraud. There would be people claiming to have an illness when they are healthy. There will be doctors willing to risk their medical licenses because of temptations awards that thieves offered. This is the sad game that comes with any concern trying to turn into a law. There will always be those bad apples. There will always be the black market of illegal drugs supplies. Regardless of these bad apples, there are benefits to this.
In the article, “Why I Changed My Mind on Weed” is written by the Chief Medical Correspondent. Dr. Sherer stated, “I apologize because I didn't look hard enough, until now.” In this article, he mentions about those who abuse it and the challenges that come up to make this legal. Dr. Sherer further stated in the article,” They didn't have the science to support that claim, and I now know that when it comes to marijuana neither of those things are true. “
People with serious medical issues are people with diseases like cancer; spine lost, muscle lost, and other painful conditions. This is not recommended for a person because of common cold. People in these painful conditions are not able to enjoy life. There medications are no longer able to work for them. Chemo is a roller coaster of Hades then a roller coaster of fun. Who would want to live this way?
People with serious medical conditions do not want to have suffered. While we have made advancement in our society today with the technology, we are still behind in the fields of medicine. We do have better technology and researches to help patients and find the disease before it gets worse than twenty years ago. Sadly we still have no cure for breast cancer, Alzheimer and the other darkness.
If a person is going to die, people should be able to have some dignity given to them and let them have marijuana. They cannot go out in the streets and buy this. If they do, they commit crimes and put themselves into jail or and their lives into danger. Again, people will abuse this law just like other countless issues of the health care system are being abuse now. People who are suffering from acute and severe medical conditions should not have to suffer because of a continuing problem of abuse.
People who have not seen a person go through this nightmare; they need to spend a day with them. They need to see the horrors when a patient tries to raise their hand just to eat, and it caused them such severe pain, the pain consumes them. When a person is seeing their family member going through this pain, it like being stabbed in the stomach; no one wants to see their family member be in this much agony. The pain of seeing a person family member be in this pain and not be able to do anything, hurts deeper than a knife stabbing the heart; If medical marijuana can help them, even if the relief for just a few hours, it would be priceless.
The US Government needs to hear these stories from the patients, their families and their caregivers. The US Government needs to remember that sadly there will always be certain people that will always abuse a situation. US Government need to remember the chronic ill should not be deprived because of the wicked.
Works Cited
Gupta, Dr Sanjay. “Why I Changed My Mind On Weed?” CNN Health 8 August 2013: N. pag. CNN Health. Web. 22 November 2013. <http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/08/health/gupta-changed-mind-marijuana/>.
Pain Management of America. N.p, n.d. Web. 22 November 2013. <http://www.medicalmarijuana.net/patient-resources/finding-a-caregiver/>.
Sherer, Steph. “Medical Marijuana Patients Need Protection NOT Policy Rhetoric. Will Congress Step UP?” Huffington Post 9 September 2013, sec. Politics: N. pag. Huffington Post. Web. 22 November. 2013. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steph-sherer/medical-marijuana-patient_1_b_3860836.html>.
