AIDS is a disease that causes great pain to its sufferers and has no cure. People with AIDS must live much of the rest of their lives in agony because there are few effective treatments available for their pain. There is one treatment, however, that can give relief to AIDS patients and has been proven in studies to do so, but is illegal and cannot be used. That treatment is marijuana, and it should be …showed first 75 words of 491 total…

…showed last 75 words of 491 total…legalize marijuana, and yet put extremely harsh laws on it. Restricting it only to patients with certain serious diseases should keep it from being used regularly by people who aren’t in need of it. With close monitoring of the distribution of marijuana to AIDS patients and strict laws against marijuana abuse, marijuana can be used to ease AIDS sufferers pain and give them a little more peace in what is left of their lives.