... them from going blind. Cancer patients, for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. Lobbying groups show substantial evidence, that marijuana is an effective prescribed drug. Also, many advocates complain that very dangerous drugs like morphine and cocaine are legal. That brings up the question: why not legalize ... marijuana as medical drug, which is proven to be less dangerous than cocaine and morphine? Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California and the council committee unanimously voted to urge ...

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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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... them from going blind. Cancer patients, for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. Lobbying groups show substantial evidence, that marijuana is an effective prescribed drug. Also, many advocates complain that very dangerous drugs like morphine and cocaine are legal. That brings up the question: why not legalize ... marijuana as medical drug, which is proven to be less dangerous than cocaine and morphine? Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California and the council committee unanimously voted to urge ...

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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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... it will lead to the abuse of other drugs, an increase in drug trafficking, and crime will increase due to a higher rate of marijuana users that will eventually become addicts, and will steal or kill in order to get their drugs. I believe that Thompson 3 through these allegations ... sure if I can consider these statements in my inquiry. One of the main reasons on why the Drug Enforcement Agency does not want marijuana to be legalized is because in twenty years of research by The American Cancer Society, The American Glaucoma Society, The National Multiple Sclerosis Society ... , The Amer...

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... . This puts it in the same category as heroin and cocaine. It is defined by the DEA as being an addictive substance with no medical value. People who support medical marijuana want to change just that. They feel that marijuana has medical potential and should be reclassified as a Schedule 2 drug, allowing people with terminal diseases to acquire it with a doctors prescription. Moreover ... social maturity as some users lose interest in school, job, and social activities. About 100,000 people each year resort to drug abuse treatment programs to end their marijuana addiction. Some people a...

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... to chemotherapy, elevated eye pressure due to glaucoma, and loss of appetite and nausea in AIDS patients. Grinspoon makes the point that treatment with marijuana is very beneficial, but because it is illegal, patients must either go without treatment or commit a crime to obtain their medication. The clear ... benefits are extremely difficult to prove, and are at best anecdotal. Perhaps the most compelling argument that Grinspoon makes is that criminalization of marijuana use promotes disrespect for the law and is eroding our fundamental civil liberties. Grinspoon states that (in the yea...

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... He often would miss months of school at a time because he was immensely sick. That was before he found marijuana. He now lives a relatively normal life. (Rubenstein, 82) Marijuana had balanced him and allowed him to lead a better quality life. Glaucoma is another dangerous disease that can be ... to allergies to or lack of effect of other drugs. Although the government feels that a person is better off going blind than using the marijuana to delay the disease, they must "protect" people from this drug. Why does the government want to see people in pain and suffering? ... cancer take che...

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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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... it really doesn't exist. Hallucination can be used concerning medical issues. But usually people just use it for sensual pleasure. Is Marijuana good for your health? The answer is no. Marijuana has a long history of medical use, but if you take marijuana just for hallucinations, as many people in our society do, you will start to lose your brain cells, and also it ... alcohol and tobacco. If you use this for sensual pleasure, it will destroy your body and even your spirit. Furthermore, Marijuana leads to harder drugs. Marijuana has for a long time been called the "gateway drug." This me...

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... aspects; where as cigarettes and alcohol do not. Hearing this you might ask well then how come it is illegal? Marijuana should be legalized because it has medical benefits for sick patients, it is proven not to be a gateway drug and ... influence of this drug are not considered a danger to society. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that marijuana had therapeutic value and that there are some circumstances where smoking marijuana would be beneficial. Marijuana helps treat certain sick and dying patients. The state of Wisconsin has recognized this and has introduced a bill ... chemi...

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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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... induce euphoria. Euphoria is when you are overcome with feelings of joy or happiness. The reasons for legalizing this drug seem to be endless. Marijuana should not be considered anymore harmful than alcohol or tobacco. This drug is used to ease the pain of many sick people and if it ... act out of character and do things you might not even remember the next day and although it is often compared to marijuana, it is really a lot more harmful; However, marijuana is illegal and tobacco and alcohol are not. Drinking a large amount of alcohol can cause alcohol poisoning which can cause ... ...

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... a chemical in the body that resembles those found in cannabis scientists have began to unravel the positive effect of the "gate way drug" Medical marijuana should be legalized because of its helpful effects on patents suffering from cancer, HIV, and epilepsy. Many people around the world are suffering and dying ... life One side affect is nausea, in 1990 a survey stated that 44% of oncologists suggests that their patents smoke marijuana for relief to their stomachs. Due to medical marijuana being illegal for medical use it forces those who are in pain to be using it illegally to relieve ...

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... , herb, weed, boom, Mary Jane, gangster, reefer, or chronic. There are more than 200 slang terms for marijuana. HISTORY: Cannabis was acknowledged as early as 2,700 BC in Chinese manuscripts. Marijuana has been used as a medicine throughout the world since the beginning of written history. During this time, companies such ... or pain in muscles or joints), epilepsy, and spasmodic conditions. In 1860, Dr. R.R. M'Meens, indicated to the Ohio State Medical Society, the usefulness of marijuana in treating tetanus, neuralgia (pain in the nerves), uterine hemorrhage, child labor, convulsions, a...

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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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... pain? The pill form of the drug also does not contain all of the combinations of drugs and other ingredients found in a marijuana cigarette; one should be able to reap the benefits just as plentifully if it truly does help ease the pain. The other drug found in ... marijuana, marinol is removed from the pill form because of the adverse effects it has on patients. Also, physicians should be able to monitor ... a form of the active ingredient that could allow maximum comfort for all patients. Secondly, there are many studies showing the harmful effects that prolonged exposure from mariju...

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... has created a lot of confusion in many countries. The Senate of Canada has entered the debate with full force declaring that marijuana should be legalized. People think that the time is right for marijuana to finally be decriminalized. A decision needs to be made and it has to be well thought out because once they ... legalize it is difficult to make it illegal again. Many things have been said about the use of marijuana. But, what are the facts and what are the myths? The facts have to be separated from the fiction. It has been said that ... else has say two joints a day who is doing m...

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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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... starters we"ll go with the health part of the plant. Many "Educational" and or other health videos in school have you believe that Marijuana is going to ruin your life and leave you brain dead, but there has been no known proof that it has had any long term brain damage to the human ... Dr. Gabriel Nahas was fired for falsifying reports that the drug did kill humans by experimenting on monkeys. He put the animals into a room and exposed them to proportionally more Marijuana than a human would smoke in a life time to prove his point, but he hid the fact of the amount of smoke used. The ...

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... many other pain killers to ease their pain (Turner). There are many alternative drugs that may even do a better job to ease a patients pain. Marijuana is only one of the many painkillers, there are many more that are legal with a doctors prescription. Although there are many other painkillers that are legal ... a false sense of their own strengths and weaknesses. Many of the other painkillers make people feel like junkies and they go through withdrawal symptoms. Marijuana has 460 different chemicals in it which make it very hard to make an alternative that does exactly the same thing, or...

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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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... The legal acceptance of alcohol, however, does not exclude it from the category of a "drug," even in the eyes of the Food and Drug Administration. The prohibition of marijuana is historically counteractive and a direct defiance of First Amendment rights. This prohibition has denied thousands of critically ill patients a drug that would effectively treat their illness and relieve their pain ... is little proven danger of physical or psychological harm from the experimental or intermittent use of natural preparation of cannabis," and recommended then that the personal and medical use of m...

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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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