The state of California had proposed a law that would legalize the use of marijuana. There had been issues regarding the use of the drug in the medicinal field. Marijuana is known for side effects such as a different state of conciousness, euphoria and reddening of the eye to name a few. However, research and studies have shown that the drug is also capable of alleviating chronic pain, since it possesses medicinal attributes. With the legalization came the marijuana program.

The medicinal marijuana program, states that patients who’s health will benefit from a marijuana treatment can obtain a medicinal marijuana program ID that would grant them the protection from the authorities that would arrest them. The use of marijuana, as stated in the Controlled Substances Act, is illegal, even in medical treatment. Through a prescription of a psyhician, the patient or their caregiver may apply for the card.

This medicinal marijuana program was intended to protect the patients from the irrelevant arrests, confiscation of properties and detainment by federal law enforcers that are in-charge of marijuana-related felony. It was noted by the officials, that the card protected only the patients and their physicians, who prescribed the use of the marijuana for their medication.

This is notion is the primary problem of marijuana centers throughout the states who implemented the marijuana program. These marijuana centers are the prime distributors of the drug. But since the program only has the cardholders and physicians in its scope, the centers had been the target of raids and confiscations by the authorities since the centers are in direct violation of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970, stating that the possession and distribution of the drug is an offense and anyone porven to be in violation is subjected to prosectution accordingly. However, the state, together with some marijuana advocates appealed to these actions of the lawmen. The authorities now promise to stop the confiscations but occasional raids are still reported.

On the other hand, the legalization of the drug gives drug dealers a bigger entrepreneureal district. Though there are marijuana centers that would serve this purpose, dealers can move in the scene, but still remain discrete in their operations. Obviously, people needing medical marijuana far out number marijuana centers that offers these services. If the raids and the constant stiffening of these centers by the government and the federal enforcement agencies continues, the patients will have the tencency to purchase from the black market and these dealers. Not only would this place them in a dangerous spot in the eye of the law, they will have the possibility of aquiring the drug of poor quality, which are the strategy of some illegal dealers to raise profit.

The legality issue of the drug will evidently fall as the decision of an individual who will be undergoing the marijuana program. Hopefully, with enough understanding and self-discipline of the patient, can he or she assure his safety and his apparent progress in his ofr her hea