Chapter 1

The Problem

Background of the Study

2. The academic and practical importance of this research is to
focus on the efficacy of medicinal marijuana on pain management as
perceives by health personnel. Such perceptions are significant because they
are the one who manufacture, prescribe or recommend, and administer the
alternative drug to the patients.
The health personnel must consider the relief that medicinal marijuana
can give that other drugs cannot. As of July 2014, twenty three states in
United States of America including District of Columbia have legalized the
use of medical marihuana for personal medical use with some restrictions for
treatment of other related illnesses (http://medicalmarjuana.procon.org/).
The article, Habemus Cannabis: The Catholic Church in the Philippines
supports legalization, in a press release, archbishop and chairman of the
conference Scrates Villegas expressed himself as follows: Catholic health
care ethics, in fact, considers as morally justifiable the use of marijuana for
terminal cancer patients in severe pain (July 17th 2014). So why dont we
support the legalization of marijuana if numerous benefits are waiting for the
ill patients? Considering the availability of this plant in the Philippines is high,
especially in Cordillera region as large the producer. The cost can be cheaper
or even free for those who grow their own plants.
3.