Work Better With Weed

Imagine living your life in gruesome pain that is unbearable to your body and mind. Now imagine a cure, but you can’t have it because you live in the wrong state. Medicinal marijuana has been a heated debate ever since Richard Nixon outlawed marijuana in 1969. Marijuana can cure many long and short-term illnesses such as arthritis, cachexia, cancer, glaucoma, Crohn’s disease, and multiple sclerosis. Medicinal marijuana is already legal on ten states including Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and Maryland. It doesn’t take a genius to know that our economy is very bad right now. America can not afford to have quality employees for any business unable to work due to an illness that can be cured. When properly prescribed by a doctor, medicinal marijuana will make sick people all around the country better so they can continue to work to their full potential.

Thousands of Americans around the country suffer everyday from illnesses like arthritis that prevents them from doing their job to the fullest extent. If medicinal marijuana was legal in all fifty states employees everywhere will be more productive. There are many facts physicians live by about medical marijuana such as, “marijuana is less toxic than many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.” Joycelyn Elders, M.D. wrote in a March 26, 2004 editorial published in the Providence Journal in Rhode Island. Almost everyone in America trusts every word doctors say.

Some doctors believe the side effects of marijuana are not worth the cure after smoking, "Although I understand many believe marijuana is the most effective drug in combating their medical ailments, I would caution against this assumption due to the lack of consistent, repeatable scientific data available to prove marijuana's medical benefits.” U.S. Senator Bill Frist, M.D. (R-TN) wrote in an Oct. 20, 2003 letter to ProCon.org. When dealing with the more serious illnesses the reward is arguably worth the risk.

If medicinal marijuana did not help at all then it would not be legal in the ten states that it is. Those states have statistics that prove there employees that take medicinal marijuana are back to work faster and are more productive. Thus helping the states economy.