"The greatest service that can be rendered to any country is to add a useful plant to its culture." ~Thomas Jefferson

        Medical marijuana is widely used and accepted in 20 different states, and now 3 out of those 20 states have fully legalized marijuana.  The other 30 states that reject marijuana still give all the exact same excuses.  One is that it is seen as addictive, which is completely false, marijuana has never been proved to be physically addictive what so ever.  Alcohol is more than 2Xs as addictive as marijuana and in the states where it is legal it has reduced the amount of alcohol consumption.  People who are anti-legalization also claim that there is not accepted medical use. This is also false, like I said in the beginning over 20 states medically use marijuana, and it works.  Medical cannabis is used treat small medical issues to extreme ones.  The most common illnesses it is used to treat are; nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, muscle tension and spasms, pain, and insomnia.  Those are just the most common ways, an example of an extreme way is given by this video of a 4 year old boy with a rare form of epilepsy, that gives him 3 to 4 seizures a day, and it is considered untreatable.  This boy is then given cannabis oil that contains no THC, or the chemical that gives you a so called high.  After starting the medicine he did not have a seizure for 4 days.  There have been other cases of children with this exact type of disorder, one girl in particular where growers made a special strand of cannabis and named after her. 

            One other reason it is rejected by other states is that it is seen as a gateway drug, or a drug that moves you toward other drugs.  What people don’t understand is that if cannabis becomes legal it takes weed out of a drug dealer’s hands and put into a regulated store, then when people go purchase cannabis they are not persuaded to try other drugs such as crack or heroine.  The last reason people give for not legalizing it is that is associated with lowlifes or the lower class.  This is becoming untrue quickly, a recent poll shows that 77% of Americans want cannabis to legalize completely, and 244 million people can’t be wrong.  In 2012, 49% of Arkansans voted yes to issue 5 which would legalize medicinal cannabis in the state of Arkansas.  We want to make cannabis an accepted and normal thing, not something to be laughed at or seen as bad.  Cannabis is safer than alcohol and cigarettes, and there has never been one reported death because of it.