Medical aspect of legalizing soft drugs − threat or opportunity for effective treatment?

Abstract

Nowadays medical use of marijuana is being brought up in public more often than in the recent years. The latest clinical trials confirm its healing effect on a human body in a fight against different kinds of diseases, which before its legalization were incurable or debilitating. In the world more and more countries legalize or quasi-legalize cannabis trade. The Polish legal system does not currently allow legalization of cannabis, however, the public opinion is voicing its approval for introducing legal, medical usage of marijuana, and public institutions agitate the government for regulation of this issue. Anti-drug communities speak only about negative consequences of using soft drugs. It is worth doing a balance of gains and losses and reanalyzing research to resolve the dilemma − is marijuana the pure evil or is it a real chance for effective treatment?