... overdose, report any adverse effects, protect the medicine from theft, and don't drive because it impairs mental and physical abilities ("OxyContin,"" 2539). OxyContin is prescribed legally for the pain of terminally ill cancer patients and for some other chronic diseases (McGillvray). They are intended for patients who require oral pain therapy with an opioid agonist for more than a few days duration ("OxyContin ... well as the abuse itself, has led to major problems. Despite all this it is still a very effective pain medication that may be thought of as a miracle drug to those termina...

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... spent on anti drug programs targeting much more dangerous drugs like cocaine and morphine. Somewhere in between providing bored high school kids something to do and being used to treat terminally ill patients marijuana has acquired the title of the "gateway drug." What does that really mean? Well on a dictionary outlook it means " A habit-forming substance whose use may lead to the ... substance." Marijuana still has a lot of controversy to lay to rest before becoming accepted by society as more than just a feel good drug, but rather as an effective medicine for ill people. Altogether, ...

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... that marijuana is bad when so many government studies say it has so many benefits. Where other medicines have failed, marijuana has succeeded and has brought new hope to the terminally ill. Patients have said that the therapeutic uses of medical marijuana have even had more substantial affects than some pharmaceutical counterparts. Medical Marijuana can be used for many health problems including ... and help the sick. Due to the fact that the drug has been proven to be useful in medicine I hope that maybe someday politicians will open their hearts to the ill and try to reconsider their ...

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... to smoke it and "get high". This raises many questions as to why medical marijuana should be legalized. It is certainly not going to the right causes for terminally ill patients. It also isn't morally right to sell these drugs to people off of the streets. They say this drug is being used for a good cause, to help people in ... ...

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... creates less or no dependency. Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care, National Lymphoma Foundation argue that marijuana should be legalized in order to treat terminally ill patients. Among them are AIDS victims who find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous emaciation; glaucoma sufferers who have used marijuana said it has prevented ... ...

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... alcohol. Marijuana was classified as Schedule One, not having any medicinal value and addictive (Whitebread 15). In 1996, Californians for Medical Rights introduced Proposition 215, which would permit seriously and terminally ill patients, with a prescription from their doctor, to use marijuana in their medical treatment and protect them from criminal punishment. The proposition passed and other states, such as Arizona, Vermont, Ohio ... ...

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... that they can have easier access to it and use it for recreational purposes. People believe that it is the 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 ... ...

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... same pharmacologic effects as morphine and to be just as addictive. In many parts of the world, it is used as an analgesic (for relief of pain), particularly for the terminally ill. Although in the United States the manufacture and importation of the drug are prohibited and it is not used medically, heroin predominates in illicit narcotics traffic because it provides more ... ...

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... an equal chance of leading to death on weekday admissions? Furthermore, over half of the deaths were attributable to cancer, which would suggest that these patients were known to be terminally ill, and their death was unlikely due to a reduction in hospital staff. In another study reported by USA TODAY, researchers claim that alcohol is far more of a problem than drugs for ... ...

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