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Controversial Treatments and Legislative Change: Topic Medical Marijuana use for treatment
Course Outcomes addressed in this assignment
The group will choose a health care treatment option that is controversial and maybe costly. Describe the positive and negative benefits from the treatment, evidence of effectiveness, and the potential harm of a different treatment option. What strategies would you use to advocate for a legislative change in your state to influence insurance coverage for this treatment.
- Choose a controversial health care treatment option. Describe the treatment.
- Describe the social and legal controversy associated with your controversial treatment.
- Describe the evidence that supports the effectiveness of the controversial treatment.
- Describe the evidence that does not support the effectiveness of the controversial treatment.
- Compare and contrast the positive and negative benefits or harm of the controversial treatment.
- Compare and contrast positive and negative aspects of available traditional treatments.
- Compare and contrast the costs of the controversial treatment with the costs associated with traditional treatments
- Describe the required process for legislative change to occur in your state.
- Describe a strategies that you would you use at the local and state level to advocate for a legislative change in your state that would influence insurance coverage for this treatment.
- Provide an estimated timeline for your legislative change to occur. Use the steps describe in required process for legislative change for your state.
- 15 pages , APA 6TH edition
Note:
- This is a fact-based Assignment that will not include your opinion.
- This will require research and support for what is written.
- The Assignment should be in your words after reading the scholarly and fact-based publications and have proper citations. There should be no quotations. The professor wants to hear your voice as a trained nurse.
- The paper should have a minimum of seven citations and some of these should be case law or applicable statutes.
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Running head: MEDICAL MARIJUANA CONTROVERSY
Medical Marijuana Controversy
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Medical Marijuana Controversy
The debate over medical marijuana legalization has been on the most contentious
arguments. There are a lot of political factors that have been considered when formulating a
significant federal decision like the legislation of cannabis mostly for medicinal utilities. But,
long before America was an ideology, a lot of cultures had exploited the plant and utilized it for
multiple uncivilized medical procedures (Bostwick and Micaheal, 2012). Within various states, it
is to consume marijuana for medicinal purposes, although, this is a comparatively modernized
idea in the United States. But, the plant was not usually regarded as an illegal substance, and the
assumption of its intent medical utility should be legitimized at the national capacity.
A lot of ancient civilizations have been discovered and proved to have been using
marijuana for medical operations dating back to the seventh century B.C. A few of the most
distinct cultures who utilized marijuana comprise of the Egyptians who consumed it for the
treatment of bruised eyes, the Indians who combined marijuana with milk to develop a primeval
anesthetics, and the Greeks who discovered a way to cure earaches by using marijuana’s
medicinal properties (Van, and Staunton, 2017). Also, the Chinese emperor Shen-Nung was
popularly known to establish it as a medicine to a lot of his of subjects, almost five millennia
ago. Thus, it can be stated that depending on ancient human civilization and marijuana has been
a critical impact on some contemporary medical treatments and diagnosis.
It was not until 1930 when a man known as Harry J. Anslinger was offered the position
of Director of Narcotics transformed cannabis into a severe issue in the American community.
His first responsibility was to necessitate on the utility of cocaine and opiates, but he agitated
that these two drugs were not sufficient to make a compelling impact on his career (Erlen and
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Spillane, 2004). He established cannabis into his operation, connecting it with what he referred
the deteriorated races. At that particular time, America was still an outstanding racist society, and
Anslinger utilized this merit linking jazz music and other means of enter...
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