ence of this disease by stimulating a person's appetite. Marijuana is also useful for people who have epileptic seizures, since it has an effect on the malfunctions in the brain which cause the seizure to occur (Zimmer, pg.17). Seizures can ruin a person's life if they are not regulated by medication, which occurs frequently. Marijuana should be considered just one more medication used in the regulation of seizures since it has been proven to be effective. Not only can marijuana prevent serious conditions, such as tremors in multiple sclerosis patients, intraocular pressure from glaucoma and arthritic pain, it can also treat everyday illnesses. These include migraine headaches and even menstrual cramps (Zimmer, pg.19). Marijuana can help common illnesses. Society, in general, will have less stress-related and inconvenient every-day illnesses if marijuana is legalized. A drawback is that in large doses mar!
             ijuana can eventually cause lung cancer, like tobacco smoke, although the doses would have to be excessive and for a long period of time. Marijuana can be used to treat asthma, a breathing disorder of the lungs (Reaney, The Globe and Mail). Marijuana's effects cannot possibly be extremely harmful to the lungs if it is used to treat asthma, and if tobacco, which is very harmful to the lungs, is legal, the marijuana should in no doubt be legal as well. Even physicians recommend it. During the 19th century, "doctors recommended marijuana to treat a variety of ailments and pharmacists sold it over-the-counter as an ingredient in numerous remedies, " and many doctors throughout Canada have objected
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