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Legalization of Marijuana I’m here today to talk to you about a very disputed issue: legalizing Marijuana. Although it may seem like an easily decidable issue, it isn’t for some people. Jim Thacker was a 49 year old man suffering from Melanoma’ and receiving Chemo Therapy treatment. He was in constant pain day in and day out, but wouldn’t accept oxy contin prescriptions, because he didn’t want to get addicted. Then his doctor recommended Marijuana treatment. Completely unadicting, relaxing, and just as potent, if not more so than Oxy Contin. Two months later Mr. Thacker’s doctor was arrested for prescribing Marijuana to a patient, later, Mr. Thacker himself was arrested for the illegal possession of Marijuana. Has our Country become so demoralized that it wont even allow a person to relieve their suffering? The Nation, it seems has become more concerned with it’s so-called