Although medical marijuana is legal in Los
Angeles, and in California in general, a lot of people still believe ingrained
myths about it. If you’re still hesitant about taking advantage of medical
marijuana, here are a few myths you should stop believing in.
- Marijuana is a gateway
drug. Many opponents of
medical marijuana object to it because they view it as a gateway drug to
harder substances. Studies show, however, that users do not eventually
progress to harder drugs. Many of them are actually content with continuing
cannabis use, hardly an indication of marijuana contributing to the
country’s drug abuse problem.
- Marijuana is addictive.
Though marijuana is
classed as a recreational substance like alcohol or tobacco, it actually
doesn’t have the same addictive properties as the former two. A study
showed that only 9% of cannabis users are dependent, while tobacco has 32%
and alcohol has 15%, significantly larger amounts. Only a small amount of
the population has a chance of becoming dependent.
- Marijuana has no proven
medical effect. Many think that medical marijuana is just capitalizing on the “high”
effect to dull the pain. Medical studies show that there are actually
measurable results of cannabis use in sufferers of nausea, pain, lack of
appetite, and anxiety.
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