... the medicine. This problem resulted in the establishment of Investigational New Drug compassionate access program (IND). This procedure enabled a few patients to receive marijuana from the government. This program however had too many flaws. Most patients never consider the idea of an illegal drug as being their best medicine ... severely can find help without the fear of punishment or prosecution. There are countless numbers of stories that impart unfortunate circumstances concerning ill people using marijuana. One particular story is about a man named Peter McWilliams, the author of th...

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... of the safest and oldest therapeutically active substances known to man. However, in today's society it's categorized as an illicit, illegal substance. When people hear the phrase, "legalization of marijuana," they only think of the ones smoking it for recreational purposes, rather than for medical value. Although, some states in the U.S. have made the criminal distinction between people who smoke ... marijuana as a doctor's recommended remedy and recreational users, who just smoke to enjoy the effects. However, the federal government and its drug enforcement agencies claim there is no ...

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... In fact, even the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) chief administrative law judge maintains the DEA should decriminalize marijuana partly because of its medicinal benefits ("Briefing Paper"). Clearly, a variety of experts agrees that marijuana has numerous medicinal benefits, and can help a wide variety of patients. Second, are other drugs available ... long-term usage of the drug in other areas where it is legal, such as the Netherlands, point to success in managing marijuana and its affects. One doctor writes, "'Thousands of patients with cancer, AIDS, and other diseases report ...

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... and what is not, really centers around social taboos and not the facts alone. For example, marijuana use has become the hot seat of much debates, concerning whether it should be legal. Marijuana on prescription basis has become legalized in nine states, but the changes in our laws are long ... year alone; one has to wonder, what kind of change would legalization bring? Where would crime play a role when Marijuana does finally become legalized? The fact is once marijuana is legalized the market for growers and sellers would be lost to the more organized states that could grow it in large...

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... in can be used for improving our communities. Making drugs legal will reduce the great amounts of money spent on enforcement efforts to apprehend and prosecute users and sellers of marijuana. This way the law can focus more on violent crimes and more serious offenses. We can save money that is spent to send the sellers and users to prison and ... , which relate to thinking habits and patterns, self-esteem, and relationship traits. People become less productive, and according to researchers in Australia, "Heavy marijuana use may be linked to depression and anxiety." (Alcoholism and Drug A...

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... from 1922 to 1930, to realize that the Prohibition Act was a mistake. It is just a matter of time before the realization of the stupidity of marijuana exclusion will hit the nation. Millions of people die in the country every year. The main "drug" causing death, however, is tobacco. According to ... information above, the two drugs that the government lets its people use are more damaging to the human body and society itself. Comparing the three, marijuana is the least addictive of them all, even though all substances have a drastic impact on a human's actions, appearances and well-being...

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... drug trade market is the second largest business in the world, bringing in over 500 billion dollars a year. The government has gone in and waged war against Columbian drug lords. Marijuana became the most popular drugs, due to the rise in usage, the federal government attempted to cut off the supply at the Mexican border. They have seized and destroyed billions ... of Prisons, total sentenced drug offenders went from 3,384 in 1970 to 55,624 in 1998 because of the stricter penalties enforced by the government. People have been arrested for marijuana alone, which doesn't include other ill...

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... Methylenedioxymethaphetamine. The truth is that PMA is out there and it is a much more dangerous drug. Ecstasy deaths have only been under two hundred in the last four years. Cigarettes, marijuana, and heroin have killed at least two and a half more in just one year. This drug has still claimed lives. All the ecstasy pills and the counterfeit ones are still ... ...

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