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11 Stats Illustrate Why Medical Marijuana Should Be Legal EVERYWHERE

Submitted by Marijuana News on Wed, 08/10/2016 - 09:17

Many activists are fighting to legalize medical marijuana. This plant could help so many people. We need to make it legal across the country.

Since Colorado and other states are legalizing it, their rates of drug prescriptions have gone down. I’m giving you some statistics that show how much marijuana could be helping people if it were legal everywhere in the U.S., with focus on the medical aspect of legalizing medical marijuana.

Here is a diagram to show what the medical marijuana laws are like in every state:

1. Decreased Anti-Depressant Use

Research found:

“Doctors in states with medical marijuana programs prescribed 265 less antidepressants every year than doctors in states without medical cannabis.”

2. Helping Nausea

Doctors in states with legal marijuana have been writing fewer prescriptions for anti-nausea medicines.

3. Anti-Seizure

Doctors in states with legal medical marijuana...

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