Legalization of Medical Marijuana

Legalization of Medical Marijuana

 

Welcome to my blog, I have been researching the legalization of medical marijuana. I am writing this piece to inform the public of the nearness medical marijuana is to being legalized.

I gathered information from http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/  that states one 17/50 of the states already have legalized medical marijuana but have set a standard for the amount any citizen is allowed to have own. Most of the areas that have allowed marijuana barely passed the law with percentages between 50-60 % votes that said yes. The most amounts allowed to have in your possession are 24 oz. With 24 plants, six mature and eighteen immature. The most recent legalization took place in Oregon last year. The first state to be legalized was California in 1996 and now has over 4,000 medical marijuana banks which are the most in one state known today. Qualified patients or their registered designated banks or providers may obtain up to 2.5 ounces of marijuana in a 14-day period from a registered nonprofit medical marijuana dispensary. If the patient lives more than 25 miles from the nearest dispensary, the patient or caregiver may cultivate up to 12 marijuana plants in a possession.     

The site http://www.abovetheinfluence.com/facts/drugsmarijuana provided me with risks that smoking marijuana brings. The risks are a wide variety depending on the person. It’s also true that when you're young and your body is still growing, marijuana actually has the power of causing long-lasting, devastating impacts on your developing brain. Also it enhances facial hair and genetics so for women that smoke would tend to have a faster rate or more of facial hair growing than a normal female should.  There are also long term affects that marijuana brings into people’s lives. One long term effects are that marijuana could be hazardous to your developing lungs. Marijuana smoke contains 50% to 70% more carcinogenic hydrocarbons than tobacco smoke.                              

The website http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/us/20cannabis.html  explains how police officers won’t prosecute medical marijuana consumers in marijuana legal state. An Attorney General says “It will not be a priority to use federal resources to prosecute patients with serious illnesses or their caregivers who are complying with state laws on medical marijuana, but we will not tolerate drug traffickers who hide behind claims of compliance with state law to mask activities that are clearly illegal.” The officers are still pursuing of growers and makers of other drugs including marijuana. The Mexican drug cartels are still making the largest revenue off marijuana being sold in the U.S. Government officials aren’t getting in the way of or inputting on whether states should legalize medical marijuana or not.

The battle legalize medical marijuana is growing stronger every day, but many Americans are still deciding if it’s the right move into the future or the wrong move. Only time shall tell.