Medical Marijuana

My opponent says my argument avbout how making marijuana available in pharamacies would increase use is assuming marijuana is bad. I say it is bad if normal people use it simply for the pleasure, which is what would possibly happen if we legalize. Pain is good under normal circumstances, but I never thought you would talk ONLY about situations in which the person was doomed to die anyways. "Your source saying why we experience pain and why it can be useful does not extend to people who have already been diagnnosed. Pain is used to bring to our attention that there is a problem. However, once the problem is found the doctor figures out how to fix the problem and make the pain go away. What use is pain when we already know the cause? You might as well argue to illegalize all pain relievers. Should Motrin, Tylenol, and Advil be prohibited because pain can at times be good? " The examples you gave I assumed were people who were going to die anyways as you keep saying marijuana "relieves sufferring. " Thus it comes down to who is minizmizing sufferring the most in the timeframe. My opponent does not attack the fact that I say while marijuana may seem good, it is actually bad in the long run even for dying people because they usually experience the side effects of depression and other horrible feelings which they carry on to their deathbed. "If it is really illegal because it damages the lungs as you have just conceded than the fact that you can ingest marijuana through a vaporizer, mouth spray, and in pill form takes away your reasoning as to why medical marijuana should not be legal. We can really end the debate right here but I think I'll refute the rest of your arguments just to make sure. " You completely failed to read my arguments throughly. I said the substance in MARIJUANA is harmful and causes way more than lung cancer. The pills as you said only solves for the smoke part of it, but even if you solve for lung cancer you don't solve for alzheimers or depression. "Your next point was that marijuana can increase the chances of things like alzheimers and strokes. You fail to mention that smoking and alcohol consumption can also lead to a stroke. " OK, why is marijuana illegal? Because marijuana is much more detrimental to the body this is common sense. Furthermore, true alchohl and smoking lead to strokes, but my opponenet never addresses how marijuana eads to alzheimers and depression ten times the amount found in tobacco. "You also say marijuana causes mood swings but mood swings can be caused by a chemical imbalance or even hormonal changes(puberty). " Actually in my source marijuana is specifically mentioned to case alot more depression then puberty, I'm pretty sure marijuana would not be illegal if it wasn't. "As for your argument that marijuana causes depression you also fail to realize what other common legal drugs have been shown to cause depression in patients. Drugs that are used to treat high blood pressure, such as beta-blockers or reserpine can cause depression. " Why is marijuana illegal? Because the level of depression is way higher. Furthermore, the drugs you talk about actually SAVE lives, whereas marijuana is designed to "reduce sufferring" while at the same time it is only making you suffer more, which he never attacks. This line here particularly troubles me. True, AIDS and cancer patients die a lot but so has every person who has ever lived. And just because medical cannabis does not cure the disease does not mean that is not helpful in that it alleviates patient's suffering while they are alive. Ok once again, my source in my last speech said that marijuana afteraffects far outweigh the temporary relief. You aren't actually doing these people a favor. The still feel the pain of cancer even if it is numbed but also feel the pain of marijuana and usually end up dying depressed, thus marijuana isn't the solution for a "peaceful death. "