... drugs. It's time to bring this enervating war to an end. It's time for peace?. Mr. Schmoke also states, that by legalizing marijuana, the crime rate will decrease in the United States. The streets of America will automatically become much safer. The drug dealers would be put ... drug criminals would be alive.? Instead of drug addicts shoplifting, mugging, breaking into homes, and stealing from others to pay outrageous prices for marijuana from dealers they could support their habit by simply holding an honest, decent paying job. (Unanswered) Richard Dennis, the chairperson of the advis...

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... safest and most effective medicine that can be used for terminally ill patients. They consider the U.S. to be heartless to refuse to legalize marijuana for medicinal purposes. Those people argue that the legalization of the drug would not make matters worse because it will be restricted to be ... used for medicinal purposes only. First of all, there are medicines better than marijuana. For example, there are safer and more effective medicines for people who need it as a treatment for chemotherapy-induced nausea. According to oncologist Daniel ... for the treatment of chemotherapy-induce...

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... a drug. Hemp can be used to produce products such as paper, textiles, building materials, food, medicine, paint, detergent, varnish, oil, ink, and fuel. Although the mentioning of marijuana can be taboo, marijuana is being used today as an alternative to painful medical treatments such as chemotherapy, for terminal illness patients who seek quality of life over painful days and nights ... refer to those effects that are going to change from person to person. Euphoria, lowered inhibitions, drowsiness, contentment, and relaxation are generally the desired effects of people who use marijuana...

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... studies that they claim help their side have been found to be either "unsubstantial, unscientific, or poorly researched" (Use of Marijuana as "Medicine"). The credibility of their "experts" has also been found to be questionable. One of the experts who testified at the 1987 federal ... Diseases, as well as countless nationally recognized medical experts, researchers, and scientists. Rebecca S. Finley, PharmD, states "We really don't know how safe marijuana is for long-term use. Like alcohol, it's a mind-altering drug. It impairs people. We don't have enough scientific information at this...

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... beginning of experiments in the late 1830's. He found that the drug was beneficial in treating rabies, rheumatism, epilepsy, and tetanus. J.R. Reynolds, Queen Victoria's personal physician, also studied marijuana. He declared it "by far the most useful of drugs in treating painful maladies." ("Disease Categories"). Moureau de Tours and Dr. John Bell, M.D., reported that the mentally ill ... member of the Parliament from Quebec, Yvan Loubier, was reported saying that he could see dozens of patches of pot in random fields the countryside in Canada from a plane ("Marijuana: Canada's Pot 1")....

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... have to take from a legal standpoint. The condition that I am talking about is glaucoma; it is the leading cause of blindness in the U.S. The herb that I am talking about is marijuana, which is very effective in treating this and many other serious conditions that I will discuss later. Through extensive, very thorough research I have learned why people view it as a gateway drug ... drugs. 2) So basically what prohibition did was created a mixed drug market, putting consumers in contact with hard drug dealers. 3) Drug use is lesser in Holland where marijuana has been decriminalized; regu...

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... of the safest and oldest therapeutically active substances known to man. However, in today's society it's categorized as an illicit, illegal substance. When people hear the phrase, "legalization of marijuana," they only think of the ones smoking it for recreational purposes, rather than for medical value. Although, some states in the U.S. have made the criminal distinction between people who smoke ... marijuana as a doctor's recommended remedy and recreational users, who just smoke to enjoy the effects. However, the federal government and its drug enforcement agencies claim there is no ...

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... the eyes, it reduces introcular pressure; helping those afflicted with glaucoma. Spacsticity, it is believed to help calm spasms from spinal cord injury. Stomach, marijuana helps restore the appetite in people who have lost weight from cancer or AIDS. Nausea, it combats nausea from chemotherapy and reduces vomiting (John Cloud, ... willing to break the law in some states to get it. Also, no one has ever died of THC poisoning which is the active part of marijuana; no one has ever died mostly because a 160-pound person would have to smoke nine hundred or more joints in a sitting to reach a ...

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... methods do relieve most symptoms for which cannabis is recommended. Money is something that we all understand and is something else that could play a major role in favor of legalizing marijuana. For example in order to fight emaciation in AID's victims they must take human growth supplements. These supplement cost AID's patients an average of thirty-six thousand dollars a ... only about five hundred dollars a year. There are also many reasons why cannabis should not be used in medicine. For one it causes damage to the Respiratory system. "Marijuana smoke contains higher concentrations of...

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... and cigarettes have been proven to be chemically addictive and yet they are legal. For the last decade or so, the government has sparingly dispensed marijuana to a minute portion of the population. These people receive it legally on an experimental basis for the treatment of glaucoma and nausea related to cancer ... the Drug Wars in the late 1980s, the Department of Health and Human Services began receiving dozens of applications from AIDS patients, for whom marijuana's hunger inducing effects was the only thing that separated them from life and death. As they lost weight and strength, ...

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... for subjects to be completely ignorant about what they are using (Bock 137). The assortment of medicinal uses is widespread; such conditions that can be aided through the use of marijuana include: Anorexia, Pain, Glaucoma, Migraine, Hypertension, Anxiety, Asthma, Peptic Ulcer, Alcoholism, Depression, Insomnia, Inflammation, Nausea, and Cancer (Cohen 36). When the benefits are so grand and the risks are ... in the 1850's. Hypodermic syringes allowing soluble drugs to be injected for instant pain relief. Hemp products are insoluble in water and can not be easily administered through injec...

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... prescribed drug which treats or prevents nausea and vomiting caused by cancer medicines, when other medicines do not work. THC can benefit many people. Marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes because it's proven to have health benefits such as treating Glaucoma, controlling epileptic seizures, and stops cancer ... cells from spreading. The legalization of medical marijuana in the United States would benefit millions of people around the country for medical purposes. It can be used to treat Glaucoma, a ... condition of increased pressure within the eyeball, causing gradual los...

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... from healthy patients to prescribe the drug for recreational use. This would make legalization too difficult to regulate because prescriptions may end up in the wrong hands. In addition, legal marijuana may provide drug dealers with an easy opportunity to escape prosecution for trafficking and dealing drugs. "Reversed psychology" would not work in this situation, for the legalization of ... marijuana would inflict more chaos and crime than it would attempt to prevent. Therefore, the best way to address this issue at the time is to conduct more thorough and involved ... research focused...

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... differentiation and has systematically and hysterically resisted science." Possibly if the two "sides" would work together an agreement could be established concerning procedures for further development and treatment. Marijuana has eased the pain of chemotherapy, severe muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, weight-loss due to the AIDS virus, and other problems. Experts from the National ... Institute of Health or NIH have confirmed that marijuana is an effective, safe and inexpensive alternative for treating nausea caused by AIDS medications and cancer treatments and other such ail...

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... not only physical suffering, but mental suffering as well. And for this, I stand resolved that the use of marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes. Marijuana takes away the stress, and pain of many ailments that are the greater plagues of this century. Marijuana will be described as, and in reference to the weaker preparation of the plant cannabis, used for smoking and ... any means necessary. It is a world wide quest to end pain and suffering and in this light, we can begin to see why the use of medicinal marijuana is beneficial in the medical world. Medicinal marijuana shoul...

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... up. Another consideration is that the state and ATF only allow dispensaries to keep a specific amount, usually dictated by weight, in stock. Marijuana is sold by weight, grams, ounces and pounds for example. Dispensaries are very careful to be extremely accurate with inventories kept on hand and ... counter between the customer and the inventory. Many dispensaries have bullet proof glass between the clerk and the customer. Since the start of medical marijuana sales there have been numerous robberies of dispensaries which have provoked more security by dispensaries. Many have installed ca...

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... has systematically and hysterically resisted science."(Koch 714) Possibly if the two "sides" would work together an agreement could be established concerning procedures for further development and treatment. Marijuana has eased the pain of chemotherapy, severe muscle spasms caused by multiple sclerosis, weight-loss due to the AIDS virus, and other problems . Experts from the National Institute ... of Health or NIH have confirmed that marijuana is an effective, safe and inexpensive alternative for treating nausea caused by AIDS medications and cancer treatments other such ailments as glau...

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... compassion for the sick; others claim it is a uniquely soothing medicine that has been withheld from patients through regulations based on false claims (Joy). For thousands of years, the drug marijuana has been used to treat a wide variety of ailments ("The Need toÉ"). Between 1840 and 1900, European and American medical journals published more than 100 papers on the therapeutic ... was recommended from such things as an appetite stimulant to a muscle relaxant ("Marihuana as MedicineÉ"). There is a 5,000-year medical history of marijuana. This history has almost been forgotten. The us...

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... a gateway drug, but really it should be considered a safe and effective medicine. There have been many battles over the use of medical marijuana. Some states have even passed propositions that allow the use of medical marijuana. The pros of marijuana outweigh the cons mainly because it can be used medically and it doesn't cause harm to the user. There are lots of doctors ... Schedule II would allow doctors to prescribe it to their patients, but top DEA bureaucrats rejected Judge Young's ruling and refused to reschedule marijuana. In California propositions 200 and 215 passed by 56%, in ...

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... illegal drugs are found to have any medicinal use, including the legal drugs, alcohol and nicotine. Most people don't know the benefits that can come from marijuana. Using the drug for cancer victims is one of the biggest arguments for legalization. The drug's main affecting chemical, THC, acts as a nerve releaser and ... creates a relaxed state and also eases pain that the person is experiencing. Marijuana is also used for textile purposes and for fuels. Clothing and rope are also made from the plant. On the other hand, some people only see ... the negative aspects of marijuana use. T...

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... provides relief for these patients, the government is wrong in preventing the treatment from being available; as he puts it "a federal policy that prohibits physicians from alleviating suffering by prescribing marijuana for seriously ill patients is misguided, heavy handed and inhumane" (670). In the essay the author makes a clear point of addressing the counter-argument, which significantly improves the credibility ... used only for medicinal purposes by those who have a legitimate reason for using the substance. Finally, Kassiner also mentions the argument that it would not be wise t...

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Legalizing marijuana (Cannibus) has always been a big struggle in the U.S. for the people who want it done. Thanks to the U.S. government, they have been keeping this issue from happening. The excuse that ... ...

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... little care to grow. Its primary active ingredient is delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinio, and it contains more than 400 other chemicals, most of which are considered unsafe. ("Basic Facts about Drugs: Marijuana"). Most often, marijuana is prepared using the dried flowers and leaves of the hemp plant, and it is usually smoked as a cigarette, better known as a "joint". It can also be used ... dangerous ("Use" 1-3). The Major Cities Chiefs, another law enforcement organization made up of police executives from the fifty-two largest policing jurisdictions in the U.S. and Canada, likewise oppose ...

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... studies that they claim help their side have been found to be either "unsubstantial, unscientific, or poorly researched" (Use of Marijuana as "Medicine"). The credibility of their "experts" has also been found to be questionable. One of the experts who testified at the 1987 federal ... Diseases, as well as countless nationally recognized medical experts, researchers, and scientists. Rebecca S. Finley, PharmD, states "We really don't know how safe marijuana is for long-term use. Like alcohol, it's a mind-altering drug. It impairs people. We don't have enough scientific information at this...

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... The British government has passed laws permitting an addict to have drugs if the person cannot function productively without them. With so many legalizing Marijuana and many leaning towards it, I hope the country and eventually the entire world will allow people to "get high" with no consequence ... early times. It was introduced in Southeast Asia in the sixteenth century A.D. Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam are said to have current uses of marijuana for medicine. In Cambodia they have an enormous list of uses, including, treating malaria, reliving asthma, calming the nerves, regulating ...

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