To
this day, the United States has mixed feelings about the distribution
and sale of marijuana for medical purposes. While 23 states and the
District of Columbia currently allow the use of legal medical
marijuana, the federal government frowns upon such an idea and
maintains that the drug should still be classified as a Schedule I
substance (i.e. a drug with no accepted medical use and with a high
potential for addiction).
In
the eyes of the law, marijuana is still an illegal
drug. That being said, the federal government has not done
anything other than defer to each state’s discretion to form their
own marijuana laws—at least until the Justice Department deems it
necessary to intervene. The need for regulation is quite justified,
though, the political side of things notwithstanding.
One
particular matter marijuana regulations deal with is the storage of
the drug, given that marijuana’s most active ingredient, THC, is
quite sensitive to changes in the environment. Marijuana plants are
also quite susceptible to mold and mildew, which means they have to
be stored somewhere with less than 50 percent humidity and a
temperature range between 76 and 80 °F.
There
is also the fact that many doctors are as yet unsure how much of the
drug they should prescribe in the first place. Yet with marijuana
laws in place, they can rest easy knowing that the amount they
recommend to their patients entail no risk of toxicity or overdose.
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