The legalization of marijuana has quickly become a controversial issue in America. In the United States, legalization of medical marijuana is expanding to the state level. For example, in November 1996, residents of California and Arizona voted to legalize medical marijuana. Following Proposition 215 in California, patients now smoke marijuana provided their doctor recommends its use. No prescription is required and prescribing marijuana remains illegal. The Clinton administration responded that it would "not recognize these decisions and will prosecute doctors who recommend or provide marijuana to their patients." Although California and Arizona are the only two states that have already passed laws regulating marijuana use, twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have laws and resolutions regarding marijuana use. These laws and resolutions range from establishing therapeutic research programs to allowing doctors to prescribe marijuana to calling on the federal government to lift the ban. Despite states' desire to legalize medical marijuana, the U.S. National Institutes of Health reviewed all existing clinical evidence on smoked marijuana and concluded: "There is no scientifically sound evidence that marijuana Smoke is medically superior to currently available therapies. » According to the conclusion of the United States National Institutes of Health, marijuana should remain illegal. Although it has many medicinal benefits - including improving appetite in chemotherapy and AIDS patients, reducing muscle spasms associated with epilepsy and multiple sclerosis, and relieving pressure ocular in glaucoma patients - there is no evidence that marijuana is the most effective treatment. The main active ingredient in marijuana (THC) is already available in its legal form, Marinol; it does indeed have therapeutic applications; therefore, the entire substance of marijuana does not necessarily need to be legalized. Additionally, marijuana comes with many side effects that can harm patients. If marijuana were to become legal, multiple legal drawbacks would arise. For example, doctors are likely to accept bribes from healthy patients to prescribe the drug for recreational use. This would make legalization too difficult to regulate, as prescriptions could end up in the wrong hands. Additionally, legal marijuana can provide drug dealers with an easy opportunity to escape prosecution for drug trafficking and smuggling. “Reverse psychology” would not work in this situation because legalizing marijuana would inflict more chaos and crime than it would attempt to prevent...