Legalizing Medical Marijuana

Legalizing Medical Marijuana

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Legalizing Medical Marijuana

Marijuana has been one of the many abused substances in the world especially in the United States of America . It has been argued as one of

the many existing substances which has caused lives to go astray and even to the point of taking away innocent lives . There have been heinous crimes committed which have been linked by the authorities to the abuse of marijuana by the suspects . But even with these apparent `hindrances to the acceptance of marijuana as a substance which also has its uses it has been observed in the scientific community that there are medical benefits with the use of marijuana (Sydney , Stephen , et al ,

. 722

Apparently , it can be said that there is a tension between the democratic ethos that permeates popular American thought and the republican constitutional foundations that impede the realization of the medical use of marijuana . As far as the democratic ethos is concerned it can be seen that there is the acceptance of marijuana in the medical field precisely because marijuana can be used as a drug which has the potential for use in decreasing the rejection of organ transplants or in slowing the growth of tumors (Dell and Snyder ,

. 630 ' It has also been found that marijuana can stimulate the appetite of individuals who do not eat well , can serve as an analgesic and an anesthesia among many others (Dell and Snyder ,

. 630

With these things , there is the argument that , indeed , marijuana has its own positive effects on the body of the individual and that it can greatly help in the development of a medicine out of marijuana . However the republican constitutional foundations would argue that the use of marijuana can open the way to substance abuse . Since marijuana is classified as an addictive substance which is prohibited by the laws of the land , the republican constitutional foundations would very well block any efforts in legalizing marijuana purely out of its medical purposes and benefits . That is because the republican constitutional foundations are inclined to promote the laws as they are written or as they have been conceived

The arguments that can be proposed by the republican constitutional foundations can be summarized into the idea that anything that is against the law or anything that is proscribed by the law should not be justified before the law . Doing so would defeat the very purpose in which these laws have been conceived and institutionalized in the first place . Indeed , it should be noted that certain laws have been created in to promote the interest of the public inasmuch as the welfare of the public is...