Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only When people think of medicine, they generally don’t consider "The Gateway Drug", as marijuana is occasionally called, as their ordinary prescription. Most think of antibiotics, aspirins, or over the counter pills; it’s presumable that marijuana wasn’t the first thought in the majority of people’s heads. Yet, time’s are changing! Many people consider marijuana a "teenage thing" used only for the impression of being high, or stoned. Marijuana tends to be linked to rock and roll, death, and crime. For those reasons, it’s continued to be illegal to possess, use, or distribute marijuana. H