... , and AIDS are among those who find that marijuana reduces their pain associated with chemotherapy and powerful drugs like AZT. By reducing nausea and stimulating appetite in severely and terminally ill patients, marijuana can help lengthen life span and improve quality of life. Many doctors have been convinced that marijuana works in some cases, and many doctors now quietly recommend it. ... Unfortunately, because marijuana is illegal, patients must break the law to get it. Patients using marijuana today must risk arrest. These seriously ill people have been put in an impossible positio...

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... County are lining up at Cannabis Buyers" Club to receive the drug. Despite the coffee house atmosphere at the Cannabis Buyers" Club marijuana remains illegal. Although some chronically ill people and their physicians argue that the drug eases their pain and suffering, the question still is fiercely debated by law enforcement and the medical community (Donnelly 1-2).4 Modeled ... after underground pharmacies that provide AIDS patients with unapproved drugs, Buyer's Clubs have existed informally for at least 15 years. Nevertheless, whether there's a medical need still is debatable. On the...

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... same way. The drug lobbyists ask for legalization on the platform of marijuana for cancer patients and other sufferers of disease. The advocates for the war on drugs feel that the drug lobby is exploiting the ill and dying to get their foots in the door for the legalization of the recreational use ... marijuana use needs to be seriously looked at. Marijuana is an effective means of overcoming the nausea and vomiting that goes hand in hand with cancer patients and HIV positive citizens living in the United States of America, or anywhere for that matter. It is useful in many spastic conditi...

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... told you about an herb that could slow and sometimes stop this condition, but like always, here is the catch; that herb is ill! egal. So you would have to be willing to risk arrest, fines, court cost, property loss, incarceration, probation, and criminal records ... there are many others that I did not mention. B. Marijuana is frequently beneficial in the treatment of many serious conditions. 1) Marijuana is useful in patients with: Glaucoma, cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic pain, and Aids. 2) All of those things that I just mentioned have been deemed legitimate by ... usef...

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... using the drugs and also a large number of these children are selling the drugs as well. II. Cocaine is sometimes used in a legal way. A. This drug is used for terminally ill patients to help relieve pain and is not intended to cure the illness. But can be abused by others that do not have a terminal condition, but for their own personal feelings ... . B. The effects of this drug are hair loss, crippling, excessive weight gain, and sometimes it can stunt growth. IV. Marijuana is legal in some states and can be used by patients with cancer, glaucoma, and others with terminal illness. A. T...

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... , cheerfulness, relaxation and greater appreciation of sound and color. Cannabis is an effective reliever of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis, hypoglycaemia and, in certain instances, as a medication for the terminally ill. It is important to remember that Cannabis has been used medically world-wide for centuries, and in this country it was legally prescribed up until 1928, however many people still ... about it. What would you do if there were no drug that could relieve your pain? Cannabis has been proven to be safer than alcohol and cigarettes. It gives terminally ill patients a chan...

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... habit. An addict who wants treatment has to admit to being a criminal before receiving treatment. 7.) According to the Federal Health and Human Services Department, two-thirds of all terminally ill cancer patients did not receive adequate pain medication. This serious medical injustice is directly linked to pressures placed on physicians who prescribe drugs. 8.) Our war on drugs has undermined the stability of ... ...

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... mouth, low raspy voice, droopy eyelids, profuse itching, and fresh puncture marks or sores covering their body (Mckim, 1996). Morphine, which is used as painkiller in most hospitals and terminally ill patients, can have a down side to it as well. Morphine may be said to cultivate crime instinct; at all events, it prepares the way to certain criminal acts, which often have ... ...

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