How will health care be affected by legalizing marijuana?
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Hey everyone. I need help on answering this question: How will health care access, cost, and quality be affected by the passage or defeat of a bill legalizing marijuana. The bill is AB 390, but i just need some answers on the affect of health care by legalizing marijuana or not. I've done some research but I need a little more. Thanks.
Hey everyone. I need help on answering this question: How will health care access, cost, and quality be affected by the passage or defeat of a bill legalizing marijuana. The bill is AB 390, but i just need some answers on the affect of health care by legalizing marijuana or not. I've done some research but I need a little more. Thanks.
It would reduce the costs since people who have imbibed marijuana will no longer delay in seeking medical attention for themselves or for others.
That's where most of the harm is; someone gets hurt but was imbibing marijuana only hours earlier and fears seeking medical attention in case they get reported
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25 Oct 2009 ... taxing marijuana could be a way to pay for health care. ... How will we legalize that? This is a bad thing for the government to throw up ...
Well i can tell you this, Marijuana WILL NEVER BE LEGAL.
Nothing Wrong with Marijuana, it's just that now people have gone over the edge adding chemicals and making all different kinds of it. People don't smoke regular Marijuana anymore.
I think there will be an increase in young people especially seeking help for marijuana addiction.
If marijuana was made legal and the government produced and taxed it, the revenue could cover a huge portion of the health care budget. The government could mass produce many different types of weed and at such a low cost because the 'danger' aspect would be non-existent; then then they could tax it heavily and make it cost the same it does now plus make billions a year that could be used to support health care. Not only that but it would save the DEA and many police forces and other government agencies billions just in time spent and effort wasted arresting harmless weed smokers. In New York city in 2008 it cost them 90 million dollars to arrest and detain people possessing minor amounts of weed and I can think of many better uses for that kind of money, one of them being health care.
There wouldn't be more people using if it was made illegal because if people want to smoke weed they are going to do so anyways, but I major difference could be that less young people would smoke it because if it was legal it would be a less 'rebellious' drug.
Instead the USA has treated marijuana the same way they treat most things; by declaring war on it, hence the War on Drugs.
Health care would have alot more money injected into it... and there would be less people in hospital because they would be sitting at their house smoking instead
keymaker > ALCOHOL IS LEGAL. OF COURSE MARIJUANA WILL BE LEGAL. i'm sure there were idiots like you before the 1930's that was like «mann, alcohol will never be legal» and guess what once a recession started up they legalized it, and guess what we're headed for.
i hope it passes so people have a legal recreational recourse to alcohol.
Marijuana has been shown to help improve appetite in cancer patients, a good thing. It also helps glaucoma, another good thing. It has medicinal use and should be legally prescribed. There is the side benefit that if it was decriminalized that money saved on incarcerating people could be segued into the health care system.
Ha haha...marijuana addiction...looks like somebody is just talking.
omg its marijuana not heroin...ppl who use marijuana dont have any trouble with life...i mean sum do just like there are ppl who have problems with fast food...but its harmless if ur responsible...its a stupid question when alcohol and cigs are legal and they kill more ppl then MJ...