Med Marijuana

Legalization Of Marijuana
For Medical Uses

Marijuana was first used for medical uses when a man by the name of W. B. O’Shaughnessy observed the treatment of various disorders with marijuana in 1839. The drug was widely used until the first decades of the 20th century. Marijuana helped symptoms and conditions like labor pain and asthma. Doctors did not prescribe the drug by smoking, but if they had realized that the relief came faster by inhaling the drug they may have prescribed it by smoking. As years passed and the technology got better doctors found a new drug called aspirin. Physicians liked this drug because it was easily taken in a pill shape and was much more reliable.

In 1937 in the United States the Marijuana Tax Act was passed. By this time the use of marijuana had already declined, but the Act made prescribing marijuana so awkward that doctors stopped prescribing the drug all together.

In the early 1970s a group of young patients who were being...