The infamous controversy over legalizing marijuana usage in the United States has been going on for many years. At least for medical use, the demand for legalizing it has raised. Twenty-one states and the District of Columbia now have laws legalizing marijuana in some type of form. Colorado and Washington are the only states right now that have legalized marijuana for recreational use. The other states permit only the use of medical marijuana.

The story of adults or teenagers using medical marijuana is common. Use cases that are very controversial, like medical marijuana for children, have not been widely spread in the media. But recently a video was put up on VICE’s website, titled “The eight year-old leukemia patient gets high than you do.”

It had never occurred to me that there would be ill children and even babies using the medical marijuana! But, from all the results that these interviews and studies have shown, I am for it.

The main child that was being followed and interviewed was Mykayla Comstock. She is an eight year-old girl using cannabis oil and many other methods to fight off her leukemia. She is one of the 50 children enrolled in the program in the state of Oregon.

Photographs of her before starting the usage were of her looking very limp and defeated. In an interview for ABC 7, her family claims that the marijuana replaces 7-10 prescription medications a child with leukemia would have to take.

She takes two flavored pills of the cannabis oil every day. After a week, she had regained all her energy and was beginning to have the appetite of a normal eight year-old girl. She claimed to have the “munchy-munchies.”

The dispensaries provide many treats and candies with THC infused in them.

Any parent would rather do anything than having the option of chemotherapy. The long-term effects of radiations are far worse than a hit of Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC).

THC treats or prevents the horrible symptoms such as nausea and vomiting caused by cancer medicines, when other medicines/ methods do not work. It also increases appetite for the ill patients whom have little or no sense of the need to eat.

Some people refer to marijuana as a wonder drug because of its help for epilepsy, severe autism, and of course cancer. Children who are at the age of four and are suffering from stage three cancer have began taking the THC infused oil. Their parents apply a small amount on the binkies and push it into their mouths.

If the THC-infused candies and pills are making the young patient feel better and are a far more better alternative than chemotherapy, then marijuana should be legal.  Because of marijuana’s bad reputation, it is harder for people to understand its positive side.

Only 10% of user who smoke marijuana become dependent on it, according to Kaiser Permanente. And more of their studies show that marijuana has not been linked to any type of cancer. The human cell has cannabinoid receptors for some reason, but it does not have “radiation” receptors.

This child looked like a normal eight year-old girl. The short term effects of not giving her cannabis are far worse than giving it to her. Unless you have a kid with leukemia, you don’t know how horrible it is, and you will do whatever it takes to make them happy and not feel pain or suffer.