... to man. By any measure of rational analysis, marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care." The most profound activist for marijuana's use as a medicine is Dr. Lester Grinspoon, author of Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine. According to Grinspoon, "The only well-confirmed negative effect of marijuana is caused by the smoke, which contains three times more tars ... evidence - showing up consistently as anomalies in matched populations - indicates that people who smoke tobacco cigarettes are usually better off and will live longer if they smoke cannabis modera...

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... to man. By any measure of rational analysis, marijuana can be safely used within the supervised routine of medical care." The most profound activist for marijuana's use as a medicine is Dr. Lester Grinspoon, author of Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine. According to Grinspoon, "The only well-confirmed negative effect of marijuana is caused by the smoke, which contains three times more tars ... evidence - showing up consistently as anomalies in matched populations - indicates that people who smoke tobacco cigarettes are usually better off and will live longer if they smoke cannabis modera...

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... The message from these studies is that MDMA does change the brain and it looks like there are functional consequences to these changes," says Dr. Joseph Frascella of NIDA's Division of Treatment Research and Development. That message is particularly significant for young people who participate in large, ... effects of MDMA. "The real question in all imaging studies is what these changes mean when it comes to functional consequences," says NIDA's Dr. Frascella. To help answer that question, a team of researchers, which included scientists from Johns Hopkins and the National Institute of M...

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... tested positive for alcohol, making it difficult to single out THC's effect on driving. In a laboratory study at NIDA's Addiction Research Center in Baltimore that controlled for alcohol's confounding effect, Dr. Heishman tested marijuana's effects on the functional components of driving. Study subjects smoked a marijuana cigarette, waited 10 minutes, then smoked another cigarette. Both cigarettes contained either 0, 1.8, or 3.6 percent THC ... touch their nose with their finger. The data from these laboratory studies show that marijuana impairs balance and coordination - functional comp...

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... reason for the legalization of marijuana is for its medicinal benefits. Many prestigious scientific journals have acknowledged the use of marijuana as a legitimate treatment for some illnesses. As reported by Dr. Jerome P. Kassirer in New England Journal of Medicine, "The advanced stages of many illnesses and their treatments are often accompanied by intractable nausea, vomiting, or pain. Thousands of patients ... with cancer, AIDS, and other diseases report they have obtained striking relief from these devastating symptoms by smoking marijuana" (Kassirer). Dr. Kassirer also acknowledge...

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... , to stomach medicine from marijuana. These drugs were even knowingly prescribed for children. Since 1839 there have been numerous reports in favor of utilizing medical marijuana. In 1839 Dr. W.B. O'Shaugnessy, a respected member of the Royal Academy of Science, was one of the first in the medical profession to present the true facts concerning marijuana and medicine ... , and to have anticonvulsant, and muscle-relaxant properties. He found it to be effective in treating rheumatism (inflammation or pain in muscles or joints), epilepsy, and spasmodic conditions. In 1860, Dr. R.R. M'Meens, ...

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... Many physicians from this time conducted various experiments to observe the medical effectiveness of cannabis. Between 1840 and 1900, more than 100 articles were published throughout Europe by prominent doctors. Dr. O"Shaughnessy, a British physician from the Medical College of Calcutta, marked the beginning of experiments in the late 1830's. He found that the drug was beneficial in treating rabies, ... 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...

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... Pharmacopoeia, the Pen Ts'ao (Hanrahan). Queen Victoria's personal physician, J.R. Reynolds studied cannabis declaring it "by far the most useful of drug in treating painful maladies-. In the late 1830's, Dr. William B. O'Shaughnessy, a British physician, learned of cannabis and began experimenting with various cannabis preparations. In 1939, O'Shaughnessy published his studies, marking the beginning of an intense period of study ... physicians to decide which patients to treat. The government should change marijuana's status from that of a Schedule I (prohibited) drug to that of a Schedu...

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... , LSD, and Psilocybin travel through similar neural pathways to give the same effects. Except, Psilocybin and LSD don't induce thoughts of suicide over a long-term use. Marijuana, which according to Dr. Deborah Malka MD, PhD from Cannibisplus.net, solidifies the fact that Marijuana is used to treat Anorexia, Glaucoma, Crohn's disease, muscle spasms, nerve pains, and seizure disorders. That's not the ... end of it, not only is it 100% natural, it also has no major side effects. Also, Dr. Barbara Fredericton , PhD from John Hopkins University says that psychedelics like LSD, Ayahuasca, Psi...

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... , rather than a criminal one." At the Center of Addictions and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia, the addictive effects of marijuana have been extensively researched (www.casacolumbia.org). Dr. Jack Henningfield, a scientist there, worked with Dr. Neil Benowits from the University of California on studying this topic. Ranked from most to least addictive, heroin was first, followed by cocaine, and then nicotine, alcohol ... ...

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... measure is pending Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Texas and Vermont ("U.S." 4). Recent medical research has convinced the general population that marijuana has medicinal value. Dr. Lester Grinspoon reported in testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee on October 1, 1997, that marijuana is useful in the treatment of several diseases. He suggested that its use ... children. Finally there is also the position held by our government officials. They have never wavered in their stand on this issue. The...

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... . According to oncologist Daniel Brookoff, M.D., Ph.D., "Within the last 10 years, safe and effective treatments for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting have made this fear a thing of the past" (Brookoff). Dr. Brookoff says that the most successful group of anti-nausea drugs has been the recently introduced medications which block serotonin receptors in the chemoreceptor trigger zone, such as ondansetron. These ... of cannabis sativa's many hazards, it should definitely not be considered a medicine. The conclusion is that marijuana should not be legalized for any purposes. First of ...

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... get addicted. Then his doctor recommended Marijuana treatment. Completely unadicting, relaxing, and just as potent, if not more so than Oxy Contin. Two months later Mr. Thacker's doctor was arrested for prescribing Marijuana to a patient, later, Mr. Thacker himself was arrested for the illegal possession of Marijuana. Has our Country become so demoralized that it wont even allow a person to relieve their ... suffering? The Nation, it seems has become more concerned with it's so-called "drug war" than Mr. Thacker's suffering. The nations drug war might sound beneficial, but in truth, it ...

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... question authority. All in all, police abuse, false charges, misconduct, and other moral violations are rampant. When dealing with the police, it is never known whether you're getting "Mr. Nice Guy " or "Mr. I Am In Charge And Will Do Anything To Assert My Authority, Even Breaking The Laws I Am Supposed To Protect ". Through the many studies taken, show that individuals with ... ...

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... Medical Pot, he describes how marijuana helped him through his battle with glaucoma,Marijuana has helped control it. Marijuana is helping me to save my eyesight.? (Unanswered) Marijuana has helped Mr. Randall in his fight with glaucoma, and has the potential to aid in the treatment of many other medical situations. (Unanswered) Myron Lindey has also received medical marijuana. Lindey was ... too long and cost too many lives. The same is true of the war on 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,...

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... could completely control vomiting with marijuana; other drugs work better for emesis. Still, the A.M.A. recommended more studies on marijuana for those who don't respond to the other drugs, and it notes that for those feeling sick, inhaling a substance may be more palatable than swallowing a pill. With Glaucoma Marijuana does reduce pressure on the eyeball, about 25%, but the drug isn't always ... ...

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... chance of having an injury than a nonuser (Gottfried). The Lancet, has written that the smoking of marijuana, even if it is long term, "is not harmful to health". Dr. Weil has stated that it "does not resemble any other known drug sufficiently to be classed with it" and that "no other clinically relevant effects have been ... ...

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... on the cognitive effects of cannabis use. His study involved 704 long-term users and 484 nonusers. His team of researchers examined and analyzed data from 15 previously published studies. Dr. Grant was quoted saying, "The findings were kind of a surprise. One might have expected to see more impairment of higher mental function." The researchers said that smoking marijuana will definitely ... ...

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... have its negative drawbacks. An increase of deaths would occur to those who were uneducated on the drug and its risks alone and with the mixture of other drugs. SS285 Dr. Mc Kay Required Readings: Dan Baum. Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs And The Politics of Failure Bertram, Blachman, Sharpe, & Andreas. Drug War Politics: The Price of Denial Reinarman ... ...

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... . And when people say that smoking pot causes brain damage the experiment which government officials use, was performed on rhesus monkeys, had an insufficient sample size of only four monkeys. Dr. Robert Heath also mistook several samples of normal monkey brain to be damaged. These mistakes cause his experiment to include very little factual information. Myths that cannabis damages the reproductive ... ...

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... , glaucoma is a destructive disease where pressure inside the eyeball causes damage to the optic nerve. If the pressure is not alleviated, the patient will ultimately become blind. A Cannabis study by Dr. Robert Hepler, in 1971, shows the eye pressure of "youthful subjects" one hour before and one hour after smoking several "marihuana cigarettes". Ten patients averaged a decrease of %24.6 in intraocular ... ...

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... 73% of American adults supported permitting doctors to prescribe medicinal marijuana. Also, in a nationwide survey of cancer therapists, 50% of them said they would prescribe marijuana if it was legal. Dr. John Benson stated it perfectly, "We conclude that there are some limited circumstances in which we recommend smoking marijuana for medical uses" (www.mpp.org/science.html). Doctors, not the ... ...

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... and use them in their anti-marijuana campaigns. Most of the scary statistics and studies that the government uses in their anti-marijuana campaigns are based on the research of Dr. Gabriel Nahas. In one of his experiments he suffocated monkeys with marijuana for five minutes at a time. He repeated over a period of six months and concluded that marijuana caused brain ... ...

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... suicide. And again unlike cigarettes, dependence among marijuana users is relatively rare, which means that if someone wanted to quit smoking, they could completely refrain from ever lighting up another Dr. MJ ever again in a tick of a clock's notice. In addition to these overwhelming positive reasons to legalize marijuana is the simple yet tremendous fact that the drug can literally improve ... ...

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... " who was very likely the "father" of MDMA use as an adjunct to psychotherapy (Beck 14). This was the first documented event of a psychiatrist whom distributed ecstasy to his patients. Dr. Phil Walfson stated that MDMA breaks down the psychological barrier between psychotherapist and patient which makes the patient serene therefore making them more likely to open up (Campbell). Supporters and ... ...

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