How many times have you heard good
things come from being high off marijuana? Not much, because people don’t
really hear the benefits to marijuana use. Marijuana use isn’t beneficial and I
am not saying that everyone should use it, but there are some medical benefits
that can come from marijuana use. Medical marijuana dispensaries have been set
up throughout the United States in select states, where marijuana recommended
patients can buy medicinal marijuana for their medical conditions, just like a
person would refill their prescription at a pharmacy. And using these medical
dispensaries, people can use marijuana in different ways to benefit from the medical
affects – aids hunger, anxiety, pain relief, depression, etc. (Shim, 2014).
Marijuana
is usually recommended to people who are recovering from chemotherapy, pain
and/or depression but there are some cases where medical marijuana has saved
lives. Though it isn’t common marijuana use can save the life of another human
being, from past evidence, there was a controversial incident where Cash Hyde,
a two-year-old at the time, was given marijuana by injecting doses into Cash’s
feeding tube by his father, Mike Hyde, but without the doctors consent (Caulfield, 2011). After finding out Cash had a stage four brain tumor,
doctors thought Cash would most likely die. Cash, living in Montana where
medical marijuana is legal, was given medical marijuana to help Cash eat and
relieve the pain. Cash recovered from the brain tumor and the chemotherapy, and
was credited to the marijuana oils given to Cash by his father.
Though Mike Hyde,
Cash’s father, was not given the permission to give his son medical marijuana,
he fed Cash secretly, already knowing the affects marijuana has because Mike
Hyde is actually recommended marijuana use for his attention deficit disorder.
Without doctor’s consent, there is a lot of controversy to whether or not it
was a good parenting decision, on Mike Hyde’s part. Though Cash’s father didn’t
have permission to give his son marijuana oils, Cash is Mike Hyde’s own son,
and should have a say on what his son can and cannot have. Given that Cash was
most likely going to die, Mike Hyde saved his own son’s life and for that,
there is something wrong? I don’t see much controversy between whether or not
giving his son marijuana was a good parenting decision, because obviously
feeding Cash marijuana oil did something right.
Marijuana has been
seen as a drug used on the streets, more than it can be seen as a medical drug
that can be used to treat patients. There are some benefits that can come from
marijuana use, but it is hard to regulate the distribution of medical
marijuana. From a friend’s experience, a medical marijuana recommendation, that
can be used to buy marijuana at dispensaries, can be easily prescribed, even
without having any medical issues. Because marijuana use is more used for
recreation these days than for serious medical issues, people see marijuana as
a bad thing. People today are even agreeing with the use of cannabis, if used for instances such as chemotherapy (Alice, 2012). If marijuana was used for more medicinal purposes than for its
high feeling after being used, then marijuana may be able to be seen for its
medical properties.
