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Medical marijuana should be legalized only for medical purposes only and should remain that way. According to “marijuana is medicine” the term medical marijuana refers to using the basic extracts from the plant to treat illnesses and other conditions.  Medical marijuana is not fully legalized due to the fact that the FDA hasn’t approved of it. The reasoning for the FDA not approving medical marijuana is because the lack of evidence and trials on humans, the experiments scientist have done are not on a wide enough scale. In which the FDA needs in order to say without a doubt  the marijuana can be used medically without any problems.

Thc is one of the two key components inside a marijuana plant and they can be used medically to help certain symptom’s such as nausea and pain.  Another particle in marijuana is CBD which is a cannabinoid which does not have the high factor like other cannabinoids , CBD has been approved by the FDA and has approved of a CBD liquid based medication called Epidiolex. CBD is used to treat numerous diseases and control conditions like severe childhood epilepsy,Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/drugfacts/marijuana-medicine

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