Medical Marijuana

This article is about marijuana becoming more accepted among U.S. adults as states loosen pot laws, as new national survey data shows. More adults are using marijuana more often and far fewer citizens think it's risky, a government survey found that is listed in the article. More than a half million U.S. adults participated in the survey over a dozen years, and the responses show a shift in attitude towards the use of marijuana.

This article is about the shift in the public's attitudes toward marijuana. It’s about how more U.S. adults are becoming more acceptable to the idea of medical marijuana. Reading this article I hope this will change readers viewpoints because it shows how marijuana is not risky and that there is ways that is beneficial to health. About 1 in 8 adults said they used marijuana in the past year, up from 1 in 10. The number of marijuana users grew to about 32 million. These statistics will show that more people are leaning on Marijuana.  Marijuana use remains illegal under federal law. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have medical marijuana laws, and starting in 2014, Colorado and Washington began allowing recreational sales. Alaska and Oregon now also allow sales without a doctor's note.

This article will help me because I can use information that shows more people are for the idea of medical marijuana and that people’s viewpoints are changing.This information will give me more ideas why medical marijuana is good and how people are using it to benefit themselves and ways to prevent illegal use of this product. I will need to find more information about medical marijuana, this article will be a good stepping stone to go off of. I can use this information to show more people are accepting and changing their viewpoints on medical marijuana.