Marijuana has not been approved by the FDA as a medicine due to a lack of extensive clinical trials demonstrating its therapeutic benefits and risks. While some evidence suggests compounds in marijuana may help medical conditions, data is limited and anecdotal. Marijuana is addictive for about 10% of users, higher among adolescents, and recreational use has been shown to negatively impact mental health, intelligence, and respiratory health. Legalizing marijuana could help some medically but may do more harm due to its adverse health effects.
Marijuana has not been approved by the FDA as a medicine due to a lack of extensive clinical trials demonstrating its therapeutic benefits and risks. While some evidence suggests compounds in marijuana may help medical conditions, data is limited and anecdotal. Marijuana is addictive for about 10% of users, higher among adolescents, and recreational use has been shown to negatively impact mental health, intelligence, and respiratory health. Legalizing marijuana could help some medically but may do more harm due to its adverse health effects.
Marijuana has not been approved by the FDA as a medicine due to a lack of extensive clinical trials demonstrating its therapeutic benefits and risks. While some evidence suggests compounds in marijuana may help medical conditions, data is limited and anecdotal. Marijuana is addictive for about 10% of users, higher among adolescents, and recreational use has been shown to negatively impact mental health, intelligence, and respiratory health. Legalizing marijuana could help some medically but may do more harm due to its adverse health effects.
Legalization of Marijuana: for better or for worst?
The term medical marijuana refers to using the whole, unprocessed
marijuana plant or its basic extracts to treat symptoms of illness and other conditions. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not recognized or approved the marijuana plant as medicine. Because the marijuana plant contains chemicals that may help treat a range of illnesses and symptoms, many people argue that it should be legal for medical purposes. In fact, a growing number of states have legalized marijuana for medical use. It is scientifically proven that the chemicals of marijuana can be used as medications. But is this reasonable enough to approve that marijuana should be legalize? How about the other effects if people will use marijuana? How about the negative aspects of using marijuana, are we able to forget about it just because of its good benefits? Marijuana plants was not approved by FDA- medicine. The FDA requires carefully conducted studies (clinical trials) in hundreds to thousands of human subjects to determine the benefits and risks of a possible medication. There were also lock of evidence for therapeutic benefit of marijuana. Data appraising the effectiveness of marijuana in conditions such as HIV/AIDS, epilepsy, and chemotherapy-associated vomiting is limited and often only anecdotal. A growing myth among the public is that marijuana is not an addictive substance. Data clearly show that about 10% of those who use cannabis found on marijuana become addicted, this number is higher among the adolescents. There is some evidence that compounds naturally found in marijuana have therapeutic benefit for symptoms of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. Marijuana for recreational use will have many adverse health effects. The drug is addictive, with mounting evidence for the existence of a withdrawal syndrome. Furthermore, it has been shown to have adverse effects on mental health, intelligence including irreversible declines in cognition, and the respiratory system. Yes, marijuana could help us people for medication but marijuana could also kill us for much bigger negative health effects. Marijuana should not be legalize.