Marijuana can be used for many medical reasons. For cancer patients receiving chemotherapy marijuana decreases vomiting and nausea; it also helps them deal with the anxiety of the treatment. AIDS patients can use marijuana because of its ability to stimulate their appetite. Marijuana can also be used to decrease the muscle spasms of people with epilepsy and multiple sclerosis. Glaucoma, a disease which causes blindness due to an increase of pressure in the eyeball, can be dealt with by using marijuana because it decreases the pressure in the eyeball (Cowley 23). All of these diseases are terribly painful for the patient, and none of them have a perfect cure, but marijuana does help the patient deal with the disease.

There are drugs with marijuana's active ingredient, THC, wh

There are many cases where marijuana has been used for medical reasons. Each one of these cases is a reason that marijuana should be researched for medical use. One reason that marijuana is prescribed for patients is that, the conventional medicine that doctors prescribed for their patients often causes horrible side effects. In some of these cases marijuana could have been used rather than conventional medicine. Susan Nelson was prescribed an anti-nausea drug to help her deal with the chemotherapy she received for her lymphoma. The drug worked wonderfully to aid her digestion but "it also lowered her inhibitions, causing inexplicable urges to throw plates and roll burning logs on the living-room floor," (Cowley 22). Nelson discontinued her use of the anti-nausea drug that her doctor prescribed, and she began to illegally smoke marijuana. Although what Nelson did was illegal, the marijuana did not give her the side effects attributed to her previous medicine. Marijuana was a superior treatment, as Nelson says: "When I smoked it, you could still trust me," (22).

It is difficult to imagine why marijuana is not researched for medical use. There are many opponents to medical marijuana, but their opinions are not supported. These opponents are prejudice, they have passed judgment on medical marijuana even though it has never been thoroughly tested. Of all of these opponents none of them are against the actual research that should be done. Also, many of these opponents are scared of the legalization of marijuana for senseless reasons.

Barry McCaffrey, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, explains the process of legalizing drugs as: "exhaustive testing by the FDA," (McCaffrey 27). In "We're on a Perilous Path" McCaffrey implies that he is not against the legalization of marijuana. "Why is it dangerous for Americans to use marijuana

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