Medical+Marijuana

Thesis Statement:Medicinal marijuana can be an effective treatment for disease.

=**Research Questions:**=
 * 1. How much relief do patient who use marijuana have compared to those who don’t? ||
 * 2. What affect does this have on legislation? ||
 * 3. To what extent does marijuana help patients with terminal disease? ||
 * 4. How do patients go about seeking treatment with medical marijuana? ||

=**Topic Introduction:**= You are sitting in an exam room of your doctor’s office. You have just received the news that the unbearable pain you have been struggling with for the last year is caused by multiple sclerosis. You are only twenty nine years old and now realize this pain is going to be a new factor of your everyday life. As your doctor is speaking with you about medication options and the side effects that coexist with these options, you begin to feel helpless. The doctor then tells you one of the most effective medications for the pain is illegal, it is marijuana. Authors of the book __Marijuana Myths Marijuana Facts__ Lynn Zimmer PhD and John Morgan MD report, “Thousands of Americans use marijuana as a medicine illegally, putting themselves at risk of arrest and prosecution” (18). Many patients with chronic illnesses must hide and hope they are not caught to get the level of relief they rightfully deserve. Medicine is defined as the science of healing. Along with that, medication is defined as any substance used to treat, diagnose, or prevent disease. Marijuana is shown to treat many diseases in research and has been outstanding in relieving chronic pain. Because marijuana can be an effective treatment of chronic illnesses, the U.S. government should consider its legalization for medicinal purposes.

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= Research Reflection: = I have reviewed many sources on the use of medical marijuana to treat disease. I have found huge success using deep web sources like OhioLink and Advanced Academic Complete. I have found that these sources have more relevant information and quite a few books that I can read on my topic. I found a great book on Advanced Academic Complete that I would have been total unaware of. This book never surfaced in my general search through Google. I will continue to use sources from the deep web in my research efforts, the sources that I have found there are much more reliable and informative than using surface web sources.