Marijuana

Medical Marijuana Should Be Legalized


The Marijuana Policy Project is an educational and lobbying organization that works to reform marijuana laws at the federal level.

Source: Marijuana is a safe medicine that is useful in the symptomatic treatment of several ailments, including AIDS, epilepsy, glaucoma, cancer, and multiple sclerosis. However, marijuana is still classified as a Schedule I drug, meaning that it is officially defined as addictive and of no medicinal value. Although state legislatures can elect to remove state-level prohibitions on the use of medical marijuana, they remain...

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