... agents, 78 percent became symptom free when they smoked marijuana" (26). The second way in which doctors currently use marijuana is to aid in the control of the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a condition in which the immune system attacks the myelin of nerve fibers, thus leading to leading to impaired function of the nervous system. Seeing that this system ... is responsible for the movement of the body this is where most of the effects of this condition occur. The symptoms of multiple sclerosis include "tingling, numbness, impaired vision, difficulty in speaking,...

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... using marijuana has relieved pain and nausea, which are the first steps in overcoming this illness. But should you go about risking an arrest for your health? Do you have a choice? Well, you should. The medical usage of marijuana should be utilized in the United States. This issue has been debated for many years and it is time to see which ... prohibition of marijuana has denied critically ill patients across the United States a drug that would effectively treat their illness and relieve their pain. Oregon grandmother Stormy Ray was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1985, and she say...

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... Americans have been able to determine that for themselves, although illegally. Like my own family, these individuals did not wish to break the law but they had no other choice" (Marijuana Rx). Only eight people today receive marijuana through a federal "compassionate use" program which stopped admitting new patients in 1992 after the number of applications, mostly from ... like chemotherapy-induced nausea" for patients who do not respond well to other medications ("Medical Marijuana"). The latest NAS report noted that marijuana alleviates muscle spasms associated with multiple sclerosis....

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... United States. It damages vision by increasing eye pressure over time.); Cancer--Marijuana can stimulate the appetite and alleviate nausea and vomiting, which are common side effects of chemotherapy treatment; Multiple Sclerosis--Marijuana can limit the muscle pain and spasticity caused by the disease, as well as relieving tremor and unsteadiness of gait ... . (Multiple sclerosis is the leading cause of neurological disability among young and middle-aged adults in the United States.); Epilepsy--Marijuana can prevent epileptic seizures in some patients; Chronic Pain--Marijuana ... 12 to...

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... to put to rest the myth that smoking marijuana is a fringe or deviant activity engaged only by those on the margins of American society. Marijuana is the recreational drug of choice for millions of middle class Americans. Government's surveys indicate more than 70 millions Americans have smoked Marijuana at some point in their lives. Marijuana is the third most popular ... recreational drug of choice for Americans, exceeded only by alcohol and tobacco in popularity.3 Types of Drugs Used by Past Month Illicit Drug Users Aged 12 or Older: 2002 Marijuana penalties vary nation ... for many ...

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... number 85% consider marijuana a "safe" drug. Marijuana uses range from the illegal recreational user to various medicinal uses in diseases such as AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis, among others (Marijuana Prohibition Facts). Groups encouraging the decriminalization of marijuana in the United States argue that money freed up from the prison systems and war on drugs ... Association, and the Lymphoma Foundation of America, have endorsed medical access to marijuana. Marijuana is considered useful by patients and their doctors in treatment for AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis,...

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... meth lab- the drug itself is capable of offering harsher physical effects to the body than pot. With the majority putting emphasis on marijuana, less addicting than caffeine according to multiple studies, one could only imagine how many busts for cocaine could be done if more time was put on tracking down those users and dealers. Colorado and Washington already took ... the past ten years to noticeable smaller percentages. Most of the time, the dealer has marijuana in one hand with crack in the other, causing the user to have no choice but to give in and try the far more abusive substan...

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... most prescription drugs. Marijuana indeed is a forbidden medicine because it is illegal. There are countless benefits with the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. It alleviates symptoms of cancer, chemotherapy, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, depression, as well as symptoms of such less common disorders as Crohn's disease, diabetic gastro paresis, post-traumatic stress disorder, insomnia, schizophrenia, and many others. In the past ... ought to be made here as well. Granted, America has an enormous and terrible problem with the issue on marijuana, but the only alternatives are disord...

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Marijuana has been proved as a safe natural medicine that can be used effectively as a treatment for a variety of illnesses such as: Cancer, Glaucoma, Alcoholism, Epilepsy, AIDS, and Multiple Sclerosis. Medicinal use of marijuana dates back to the ancient Chinese Emperor Chen Nung, over 5000 years ago (Grinspoon 3). Until recently in history have civilizations considered marijuana use unacceptable and ... abused by its users. With the national debt so high, the federal government could step in and grow marijuana and make a profit, while eliminating drug dealers and potential violence. The ch...

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... Melamede, who is an expert in cannoboid research. Dr. Melamede vision is directed in the right direction with his mission statement as follows. "My focus is on the quantum physics relationship with biology, and the role the cannabinoid strain plays in the string of life. My research and science of the cannabinoid system along with the relationship between the endocannabinoid ... ...

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... over the age of twenty- one should be legal in all states. Marijuana has gotten a bad rep for years until lately because many scientists have started to research it. After multiple researches and test were conducted the results amazed many scientist so they decided to bring it forward and present it to many treatment searching facilities to try and use it ... as a cure . In the end they all found out that marijuana can help patients with such diseases as Alzheimer's, anxiety , Parkinson's , cancer , epilepsy , glaucoma and multiple sclerosis just to name a few . it can may be able to sl...

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... believe that the medical use of marijuana is a good idea. Cancer patients who have nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, AIDS patients who are wasting away, and multiple sclerosis patients treating muscle spasms are good candidates for the medical use of marijuana. John Benson of Oregon Health Sciences University and Stanley Watson of the University of Michigan ... eye pressure from glaucoma." Kytr also states that this is a very controversial subject (Kytr interview). Groups like the U.S. Institute of Medicine recognize several medical conditions such as diabetes, AIDS, multiple scle...

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... (Hermes 51). In today's society, patients and doctors argue that it relieves pain, nausea, loss of appetite, muscle spasms, and other symptoms of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, asthma, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and paralysis (Donnelly 2). According to studies conducted by researchers at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Cornell Medical College in New York, and the National Institute of Health; marijuana ... marijuana reduced the damaging pressure inside the eye caused by glaucoma. A pharmacologist for the U.S. FDA, Denis Petro's 1981 study showed that oral THC reduced spasticity in people with...

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... marijuana has medicinal benefits is currently being implemented by the Clinton Administration (Zeese). The victims in this offensive are the millions of U.S. citizens suffering from cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, and epilepsy, for whom marijuana would provide the best relief. Currently, marijuana is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance by the Food and Drug Administration. Schedule I ... suffering from AIDS Wasting Syndrome. This syndrome is characterized by an inability to eat that leads to severe malnutrition and eventual death (Onstand 164). Regarding Glaucoma,...

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... and therapies they receive) enabling them to fight of emaciation. Cancer patients can use marijuana to relieve them from severe nausea that often results after chemotherapy. "In the case of multiple Sclerosis, marijuana seems to bring relief to suffers like no other painkillers can. Suffers say that smoking a marijuana cigarette before bedtime can be the difference between getting a good night sleep ... and staying awake tossing and turning due to the pain. Suffers of Multiple Sclerosis also experience spasms as a result to nerve damage. Marijuana has shown to help control the incidence...

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... city of San Diego "to go on the record for supporting the medical use of marijuana. Marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis". Among some of the terminally ill patients in need of marijuana are AIDS victims, glaucoma sufferers, and cancer patients. AIDS patients find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they ... 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 Soc...

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... as a potentially dangerous drug with no redeeming medical value. According to the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), medicinal marijuana can provide superb relief for patients who suffer from: arthritis, depression, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, etc. Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. No one has ever died from an overdose, and it has a wide variety of therapeutic applications: Relief from ... United States. It damages vision by increasing eye pressure over time.) Cancer. Marijuana can stimulate the appetite and alleviate nausea and vomiting, which are commo...

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... Joycelyn Elders, MD Former US Surgeon General stated, "The evidence is overwhelming that marijuana can relieve certain types of pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis, cancer and AIDS -- or by the harsh drugs sometimes used to treat them. And it can do so with remarkable safety. Indeed, marijuana is less toxic than many of ... and makes living easier on the patient who is in suffering. Medical marijuana has successfully been used to treat the following conditions: Residual limb pain, Gravis Myoclonus, Seizures, Sjogren's syndrome, Multip...

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... a gene called Id-1, a key gene that helps cancerous cells circulate throughout the body (Welsh and Loria). Plus, marijuana can be used as a pain-reliever for people with conditions such as multiple sclerosis and cancer. With an abundance of advantages to use marijuana as medicine, there are also many drawbacks to be considered in the argument. Marijuana has been linked to short ... harmful product" (Cooper). Lastly, Mr. Cooper was asked what illnesses or diseases are being targeted most frequently with marijuana. "Pain is a big one, with seizure and spasticity disorders, multiple sclero...

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... wants before our thoughts of the marijuana issue. Let's think about our glaucoma patients with their intraocular pressure association, spasticity, pain and tremors associated with multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries/trauma, decreasing chronic pain suffers (multiple fibromyalgia) and loss of appetite of patients due to wasting syndrome associated with HIV/AIDS and cancer (Eschiti & Johannigman, 2013). When you are not personally ... ...

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... of "clinical response " to the medical marijuana usage. Imagine if our society had a single plant that could cure and help reduce illnesses like cancer, glaucoma, HIV, morning sickness, Hepatitis C, Arthritis, Multiple Sclerosis, and even Alzheimer's disease. It is a fact that anyone can die from ingesting too much aspirin, or too much coffee, or too much wine. Marijuana, medical or not, is ... prescribed as a safer alternative. For example, it has long been believed that smoking marijuana helps MS patients, and a study provided yet another clinical trial as evidence of marijuana's impa...

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... Institutes of Health, marijuana should remain illegal. Although it does have many medicinal benefits - including improving the appetite in chemotherapy and AIDS patients, reducing muscle spasms associated with epilepsy and multiple sclerosis, and alleviating eye pressure in glaucoma patients - there is no proof that marijuana is the most effective treatment. The main active ingredient in marijuana (THC) is already available in ... applications; therefore, the whole substance of marijuana does not necessarily need to be legalized. In addition, marijuana has many side effects that may har...

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... wasn't before. Until 1937, there were twenty-seven medicines containing marijuana were legally available in the United States to aid suffering patients including those of AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and even multiple sclerosis. Lobbying groups like the PAAC and the NLF, are working hard to show substantial evidence that marijuana can be used as a prescribed drug. Many advocates who are pro-legalization ... city of San Diego to go on the record, "we support the medical use of marijuana. Marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis". M...

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... of legalizing medicinal marijuana should be long over because legalizing marijuana for medical purposes would bring about more help than harm to the miserable patients suffering from AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, and other serious or terminal illnesses. Marijuana comes from the plant classified as Cannabis sativa or Cannabis indica. The cannabis plant was first used for medicinal purposes nearly 5,000 ... inside of the eye and sometimes stops the condition from worsening. With cancer patients, smoking cannabis or marijuana can stimulate common side effects of chemotherapy ...

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... the city of San Diego "to go on the record we support the medical use marijuana; marijuana can be a drug of necessity in the treatment of AIDS, glaucoma, cancer and multiple sclerosis. '' Many agencies, which are anti marijuana such as Drug Enforcement Agency and police departments, argue marijuana should not be legalized. These agencies believe that marijuana should not be legalized ... an effective drug as a medicine. In twenty years of research, no reliable scientific proof that marijuana has medical value was produced. The American Cancer Society, American Glaucoma Society, the Nati...

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