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It is hard to believe that in the second decade of the twenty first century, some people still attack the existence of medical marijuana. Perhaps to a segment of the population, Reefer Madness will always be alive and kicking. Luckily that segment is getting smaller with each passing year.

The irony, of course, is these same individuals who are dead set against medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles and other parts of the country, would be first in line for their medical buds if they were going through the ravages of chemotherapy. If they need it, they want it. They just don't want anybody else to have it.

Of course, some people say that since there are people who claim to have a medical need for cannabis, when in fact they are purely recreational users, the entire system should be dismantled. You will notice that they are not calling for the eradication of pain pills just because some people take them for fun, rather than pain.

The same could be said for anxiety drugs like Xanaxx or anti-depressants like Prozac, or even ADD drugs like Ritalin. Yet these individuals are only concerned about people abusing medical marijuana. They could not care less about the abuse of those more dangerous drugs that can be fatal.

In 1988, the Department of Justice of the United States said that marijuana was unlike virtually all medicines in the sense that it is impossible to be fatal. There is no toxicity level that could bring about the death of the marijuana user, but the same can not be said about any pharmaceutical drug, whether it is prescribed or available over the counter.

The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has never reported a single death stemming from marijuana, in and of itself. It has, however, reported the deaths of people, numbering in the tens of thousands, who died from FDA approved drugs.

Medical cannabis has been proven to curtail the extreme nausea that chemotherapy patients endure, as well as help them and other patients, to have their hunger stimulated. It helps glaucoma patients and relieves suffering from PMS complications and many other painful symptoms.

It helps many patients to gain much needed weight. Patients have been helped with conditions ranging from migraines to insomnia, to asthma,, to spasticity and other movement disorders. Other conditions which patients and doctors have reported good results from the use of marijuana include, fibromyalgia, spinal cord injuries, as well as Alzheimer's disease and other mental disorders.

Two separate recent studies by Colombia University and the University of California at San Diego medical division, came to the same conclusion about its ability to increase the quality of life in AIDS patients. For reasons of space, this article can not possibly delve into all of the other conditions that medical cannabis has been shown to provide relief.

The truth is simple: medical marijuana needs to be celebrated; not defended. Here at Budsavers, we celebrate it each and every day with marijuana deals. This is a medical marijuana daily deals site where we provide 50-90% off medical marijuana to local dispensaries.