Former DEA and FDA officials along with medical experts argue that marijuana has medical benefits and should be researched and potentially legalized given evidence that it can relieve pain for conditions like multiple sclerosis, cancer, and AIDS. Despite this evidence, only 23 states have legalized medical marijuana to date. The document calls the reader to action to help legalize medical marijuana in more states through activities like contacting legislators and speaking in the media.
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Medical marijuana
1. A Call to Action:
Medical Marijuana
How can we make a difference?
2. "The evidence…clearly shows that marijuana has been
accepted as capable of relieving the distress of great numbers
of very ill people...It would be unreasonable, arbitrary and
capricious for DEA to continue to stand between those sufferers
and the benefits of this substance in light of the evidence...”
Francis L. Young, former Chief Administrative Law Judge at the US Drug
Enforcement Administration, 1988
“I don't think we should decriminalize it, but we ought to do research into
what, if any, medical benefits it has..”
Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2007
"The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve
certain types of pain…caused by such illnesses as
multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS -- or by the harsh
drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with
remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than
many of the drugs that physicians prescribe every day.”
Joycelyn Elders, MD, former US Surgeon General, 2004
3. Despite the proven benefits of
medical marijuana, only 23 states
to date have legalized its use.
You can make a difference.
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