Public health ethics rests upon a set of general moral considerations (GMC’s) that have been widely discussed in literature, and utilized in the practice of public health decision-making. Your text identifies GMC’s (Table 2.1, page 21); however, goes into detail about the first five- producing benefits; avoiding, preventing, and removing harms; utility; distributive justice/procedural justice; and respect of autonomous choices and actions. For this assignment, you are to explore the ethical issue of Medical Marijuana , then discuss how each of the five GMC’s listed above may or may not apply. Identify any current and/or future political, legal or economic challenges, as they relate to the ethics of public health practice and health care delivery. Hypothesize potential solutions to the ethical challenges through utilization of appropriate GMC’s. (3-5 pages) Below I have attached an example paper, a first draft paper of medical marijuana and ethics which is to be used to build upon, ch. 2 of public health ethics on GMC’s.
