Marijuana: Medical Miracle or Unnecessary Narcotic

Marijuana: Medical Miracle or Unnecessary Narcotic?
The debate over legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes is longstanding. Battles have been won and lost in courtrooms both federally and state to state. For years proponents have documented marijuana’s therapeutic value and adamantly defended the credibility of their studies. So strongly in fact, a proposition was voted on and passed in 1996 allowing limited medical use of marijuana in California and eight other states. But for just as long, opponents have refuted claims to the necessity of marijuana as a prescribed drug, warning of its potential dangers both to patients and society proposing instead, synthetic alternatives. The federal government fiercely enforces its zero tolerance drug laws seeing any legalization as a potential floodgate for widely accepted drug use. And so wages on the war against drugs.
Currently, marijuana is a Schedule I narcotic under the classification system set up by our nations ...