There are millions of ill people in America. Marijuana could save the lives of our citizens (2). Studies have shown that patients who smoke cannabis tend to be healthier than other patients who have a certain disease but don’t smoke cannabis. Some disease and illnesses marijuana can help prevent, cure, or relieves pain for are Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, cancer, HIV, arthritis, depression, and glaucoma (2). But there are much more! Marijuana helps relieve stress, slow down tumor growth, and helps relieve pain for chemo or radiation therapy patients (2). There is an obvious prescription to many diseases, but a majority of Americans can’t use it because it’s illegal in most states. Putting the patients on several different …show more content…
Many unemployed Americans feel as if finding a job is futile because they are hardly any job openings nowadays. If we built cannabis farms and hired people that don’t have jobs to work on the farms, our unemployment would go down in a great amount. Ever since Colorado legalized marijuana, they have been appreciating one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country—6% (6)! The unemployed people would be paid good money if there were cannabis farms they could apply to get a job at. Cannabis farmers in California make $16 an hour, and about $41,800 a year (5). Cannabis farm owners are netting over $100,000 a year