Rethinking Marijuana

Recently, both California and Arizona took the long needed initiative and approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes. The California bill says that patients may use marijuana with a doctor's recommendation. It does not, however, allow doctors to prescribe the drug. Arizona voters passed a bill that swings out even further to the left than California's. Voters in Arizona think that people should be able to use any illicit drug for bona fide medical …

…of the question. There are enough opiates in a bottle to kill someone. Proponents of the legalization of marijuana are not really arguing over the legalization of the drug as a medicine. They want marijuana to be completely legalized. On the other hand, the status quo and red tape are keeping a perfectly good medicine off the market. A little less convention and a little more compromise would calm the uproar about legalization of marijuana.