egative effects, positive effects can also be gained from marijuana. Applying the principle of double effect, marijuana use could be seen in a different light. It was discovered that marijuana holds a medical attribute that can be used in treating terminally ill people. It was then found out by Sir William Brooke who studied in India back in 1830s that extracts coming from marijuana could lessen the vomiting of people who had cholera and suffering of those with stomach pain. Later on, these was then made available in pharmacies around Europe and United States which aid in treating ailments. Just for fast fact checks, two drugs in a pill form which contained THC was already approved by the US Food and Drug Administration namely Marinol and Syndros which can help in treating nausea that one may get from having a cancer chemotherapy. For the record, it was commemorated on the 17th of March, 1999 in United States an inclusive document that proves the medical capability of marijuana when 11 medical experts employed by the White House to seek for deeper knowledge on the properties of the substance, which afterwards prove the critiques wrong as they found out that Cannabis Sativa can be effectively used as a biotic medicine.
However, the major concern on the health sectors when this legal marijuana be prompted is the ethical guidelines particularly on the assurance that the practitioners will administer this drug with due moral and ethical considerations. It is quite known fact that practitioners do their public service in exchange for the medical and laboratory fees that they get. It is in this context that critics find it hard to believe that House Bill 6517, even though it details guidelines on the use of the substance, will compromise the safety of the patients when overlooked at a deep analysis. The third law appeal discussed by Clark, Capuzzi & Fick (2011) is the health law that is invoked by the motion of legalizing marijuana. It is known that doctors and other medical personnel studied to get their licenses and accreditation to practice their field of expertise, thus giving them the right or the autonomy. Ethical issues are not new in the medical history as discussed by Sokol (2018). The principle of double effect suggests that even though medical support is for the greater good, there will always be constraints and ethical issues. Confidentiality according to Sokol (2018) is one of the prominent medical and ethical issues a doctor experience. A practitioner may or may not disclose the procedures and treatments that he is using following the confidentiality principle. However, this discretion might lead to otherwise illegal acts like overdosage of patients, over administering of marijuana to patient or nonpatient for personal interests and the use of the non-patient.

Philippines’ Status Quo on Drug Use

The betterment of both the health and criminality issues through an all-out war on drugs has been the main trajectory of the administration led by President Rodrigo Roa Duterte at the commencement of his office in 2016. As pleaded by the head of the state, the drug war shall be over in a span of three to six months through an intensified and systematic method which is known as the Oplan Tokhang facilitated by the imbued Philippine Nat