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Medical Marijuana: weighing benefits versus risks

Submitted by Marijuana News on Mon, 07/27/2015 - 07:37

Statistics show that prescription drugs are abused so readily in the United States that someone dies of an overdose from pills every 19 minutes.

In contrast, there is a drug that has never been known as the sole cause of an overdose death, and yet remains illegal in South Dakota and many other American states. That drug is marijuana, which is considered by the federal government as a Schedule I drug, meaning it has no medical value whatsoever.

But opinions on the medical value of marijuana are changing in America, and proponents of legalizing marijuana for medical use in South Dakota hope the state can join 23 other states and the District of Columbia where it is legal, and they're pushing for a November 2016 statewide ballot measure to accomplish that.

For those who support marijuana as medicine, or those who now use it to fight pain or reduce seizures,...

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