In the article, “Federal Foolishness and Marijuana,” Dr. ... Kassirer states “…a federal policy that prohibits physicians from alleviating suffering by prescribing marijuana for seriously ill patients is misguided, heavy-handed, and inhumane” (366). ... Eric Barnes, author of “Reefer Madness: Legal & Moral Issues Surrounding the Medical Prescription of Marijuana”, Dr. ... Kassirer, author of “Federal Foolishness and Marijuana”, Joel Stein, author of “The New Politics of Pot”, and I will also express my own view. The three topics that will be discussed are: the public opinion about the legalization of marijuana, the government’s attempts at blocking the legalization and even the study of marijuana, and finally, the medicinal values of marijuana. Barnes feels that “the federal government is still obligated to take several specific steps toward the legalization of medical marijuana” (1). ... In my view, medicinal marijuana should be legalized, for numerous reasons that will be discussed later on in this essay.
The public opinion about the medicinal use of marijuana seems to be mixed. ... He states that the biggest argument in opposition to the legalization of medicinal marijuana is that the government believes it would ‘send the wrong message’ to the public and cause more widespread casual use of marijuana (Barnes 7). Kassirer disagrees with this point, stating that “the argument that it would be a signal to the young that marijuana is OK, is I believe, specious” (366). The federal government plays a very big role in public perception of marijuana. In Nevada, where an initiative was proposed for the possession of up to three ounces of marijuana, the federal government sent in their forces to combat such legislation. ... Stein says that the commercial features two adolescents smoking marijuana, talking lazily about nothing in particular. ... My girlfriend has severe Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis and she occasionally smokes marijuana at the urging of her rheumatologist.
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