Medical Marijuana
Part of the harm reduction agenda includes the decriminalization
and eventual legalization of marijuana, followed by other drugs. At first it's
presented as being useful for certain cancer patients for medicinal purposes,
but allowing seriously ill patients to take a drug is vastly different from
promoting marijuana use to everyday citizens. Punishment for possession of
marijuana is a completely different topic and the severity of penalties for
using the drug cannot be put into the same category as debating whether or not
the substance, with all of its immediate and long-term effects, has any value
medically.
The arguement for making marijuana available to cancer
patients is being used by pro-drug movements in an effort to dumb down and numb
up society to a point where people care less about what's going on in the
world. When someone is under the influence of a toxic substance such as
marijuana, their senses, abilities and awareness levels are dulled and
diminished. 
The Drug-Free Alliance is an
advocate of finding other solutions for treatments of diseases and illnesses
than using drugs, whether legal or not, unless there are no other alternatives.
The Alliance is definitely against the legalization of marijuana. Literacy
rates are bad enough in our country and we don't need more kids smoking weed
and losing interest in life and learning.
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today and help make a safer society for all by reducing the harm for real by
adopting sensible drug policies.
Several Government agencies concluded that no sound scientific studies supported medical use of marijuana for treatment in the United States
Agencies under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
(HHS), including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the National Institute of
Drug Abuse (NIDA) found that after reviewing past studies that no animal or
human data supported the safety or efficacy of marijuana for general medical
use.
Marijuana is listed in schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act
(CSA), the most restrictive schedule. The Drug Enforcement Administration
(DEA), which administers the CSA, continues to support that placement.
Read
the full FDA Advisory
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