is obvious: end the war "against drugs" create jobs, reduce implementation costs, increase revenues - and beneficial for patients
Marcy Dolin, Rohnert Park, California, smoking eight joints (marijuana cigarettes) per day, and eat a biscuit joint before going to bed every night. It prefers peanut butter cookies.
A 71-year-old who has struggled with multiple sclerosis for more than half of his life, Dolin is not your typical drug user is often parodied in popular culture. No smoke for recreational purposes, but because marijuana is the only thing that takes away the pain and muscle spasms stop.
"Without [marijuana], I would be living on morphine and other drugs horrible. I could not do that to my family, "he recently told the New York Times. "It's not life, and would have done. It's the truth. "
Dolinnot alone. In the U.S., people who struggle with chronic illness more and more into question the U.S. policy on marijuana, a homeopathic substance was until 1937, mostly legal and regulated. Friday marks the 40th anniversary of the "war on drugs." And what we have as a result?
hundreds of billions of dollars wasted in the middle of a fragile economy, the financial and social cost of incarceration of hundreds of thousands of criminals per year, and patients and Dolin, who continue to suffer our policies have failed. Compared with other drugs, clinical trials have shown that marijuana is very effective in relieving pain without serious side effects that often plague users of other drugs.
- debilitating pain in the nervous system can be caused by cancer, HIV / AIDS, multiple sclerosis and diabetes, pain can also be a side effect of treatment recommended for these conditions. About a third of patients with HIV / AIDS suffer from this terrible pain in the nervous system - largely a response to antiretroviral therapy is the initial treatment for HIV patients. However, no appropriate treatment is approved for pain relief. As a result, some patients reduce or stop treatment because they can not tolerate or eliminate the debilitating side effects. Marijuana has been proven to alleviate the effects of the disease both himself and the drugs prescribed to treat it.
- While the benefits of medical marijuana law is clear, the potential benefits of full legalization also be considered, especially when assessing the economic benefits of regulation and taxes. Today, Americans have few economic opportunities. Since the market crash of 2008, unemployment has remained surprisingly high that businesses have closed or moved abroad. U.S. debt has doubled over the past decade, the poverty rate is higher than 15 was, and adjusted for inflation, median income has barely budged since the 1950s. Meanwhile, in New York spends $ 75 million per year to enforce the prohibition of marijuana. A recent study by the Drug Policy Alliance shows that between 2002 and 2010, in New York between U.S. $ 350 million and spent $ 700 million to arrest and charge people with possession of marijuana a low level. In this context, the city is currently in discussions to close schools and public sector employees to reject - the decisions that only accentuate the impact of the recession
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