Policy Development
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Policy Development In Relation To Marijuana
Marijuana legalization has been among the most debated matter in the community wellbeing sector. Since policy development can have an impact on society’s insights about public health strategy as well as marijuana legalization, it is essential to comprehend how Marijuana should be framed as a policy problem (Vujcic, 2017). When the majority of the individuals frame the dispute about regulating Marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, they only deliberate two decisions: ban the drug or legalize it. There are countless perceptions to take into account, and they usually appear to come down to the individual reasons of the disputant. Whether it’s being contended from a political, medical, or economic viewpoint, it frequently comes down to whether the Government ought to be our authoritarians or we have to be liable for our actions.
Marijuana is a drug that has often been used for recreational motives ever since prehistoric years, and that is presently debated to have medical or therapeutic importance and to be considered as a Treatment. Minimum controversial is the component from the hemp plant called CBD, which means cannabidiol for the reason that this constituent of Marijuana has minimum mind-altering properties. Marijuana, on the other side, has more than 100 active constituents. THC, which signifies tetrahydrocannabinol, is the compound that results in the highness that goes along with marijuana usage. CBD dominant strains no or just a little THC, so sick individuals report very minimum if any change in consciousness. On the other hand, patients report a lot of benefits of CBD, from relieving spasticity, pain, anxiety, and insomnia to handling possibly life-threatening illnesses, such as epilepsy. One specific kind of juvenile epilepsy known as Dravet disease is nearly difficult to manage but reacts intensely to a CBD-dominant strain of Marijuana known as Charlotte’s.
The major common usage for medical Marijuana is for pain management. Whereas Marijuana is not durable enough for severe agony, for instance, a broken bone or post-surgical pain, it is rather operative for the chronic pain that spate millions of individuals, particularly as they age. Part of its attraction is that it is undoubtedly harmless than opiates in a way that it is difficult to overdose. It replaces NSAIDs, for example Aleve or Advil, if individuals cannot take them as a result of complications with ulcers or their kidneys or GERD (Polson, 2019). In general, Marijuana seems to reduce the agony of numerous nerve pain and sclerosis in common. This is a sector where a small number of other possibilities are present, and those that do, such as Lyrica, Neurontin, or opiates, are very sedating. Patients say that Marijuana lets them recommence their prior doings devoid of feeling entirely disengaged or out of it.
In addition, Marijuana is thought to be an excellent muscle relaxant, and individuals utter profanities by its capacity to reduce tremors in Parkinson’s disease. Its use is also quite successful for endometriosis, fibromyalgia, interstitial cystitis, and several other illnesses whereby the ultimate general pathway is chronic pain (Messamore & Dugan, 2020). On the other hand, Marijuana is used to control weight loss and nausea and can also be used to treat glaucoma. A very promising sector of study is its usage for PTSD in veterans who are coming back from battle zones. A lot of veterans and their psychotherapists report radical progress and request for more research and a reduction of administrative limitations on its study. Medicinal Marijuana is also testified to aid patients ailing from wasting syndrome and pain related to HIV, in addition to Crohn’s disease and irritable bowel disease.
This is not projected to be a comprehensive list, but reasonably to show how Marijuana should be framed as a policy problem. It shows how it can be viewed as a health matter by the types of conditions for which therapeutic Marijuana can offer relief. As with all medications, assertions of efficiency ought to be disapprovingly assessed and treated with caution. My counsel for patients is to be completely honest and open with their doctors and to have great hopes with them. Tell them that they deliberate this to be part of their treatment and that they anticipate them to be taught about it and be capable of somehow pointing them in the course of the information they require.
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Messamore, E., & Dugan, S. E. (2020) Informed Consent: A Policy Prescription for Communicating Benefit and Risk in State Medical Marijuana Programs. Psychiatric Services, 71(9), 941-946.
https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202000140
Polson, M. (2019) Making marijuana an environmental issue: Prohibition, pollution, and policy Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2(2), 229-251.
https://doi.org/10.1177%2F2514848619834847
Vujcic, I., Pavlovic, A., Dubljanin, E., Maksimovic, J., Nikolic, A., & Sipetic-Grujicic, S. (2017). Attitudes toward medical cannabis legalization among Serbian medical students Substance Use & Misuse, 52(9), 1229-1235
https://doi.org/10.1080/10826084.2017.1302959
