... primarily found in fat tissues. The body, in its attempt to rid itself of the foreign chemical, chemically transforms the THC into metabolites. Urine tests can detect THC metabolites for up to a week after people have smoked marijuana. Tests involving radioactively labeled THC have traced these metabolites in animals for up to a month. (National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1984.) There are 3 types ... they individually abuse. Most hospitals have both of these programs. These are the steps that most programs include; • Psychosocial assessment and medical evaluation • Current alcohol and...

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... of marijuana in the paper dated June 1994, "Issue 8 Should Marijuana Be Legalized as a Medication?" A web search reveals that Grinspoon is an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard with a long history of pro-drug publications. A search on Voth reveals that he has had a number of positions with anti-drug organizations and causes, as well as a similarly long ... history of anti-drug publications. An interesting side note is that it appears that St. Francis Hospital in Topeka, Kansas (Voth's employer at the time this paper was published) no longer ... and for those who administer it...

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... marijuana had any effect on the cognitive functioning of the human body. The results concluded that none of the ten subjects suffered any impairment of their mental abilities. In fact, I.Q. tests were given to the subjects while the subjects were using marijuana and tested normal or higher range of cognitive activity (Shaeffer 2). Many of the original studies of how marijuana is ... smoker is arrested every 52 seconds in the United States! In 1997, there were more than 700,000 people arrested for marijuana alone, which was the most in our nation's history. Of those 700,000 arrests, 87% ...

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Throughout history marijuana has been used to serve many purposes in many different cultures. The purposes have changed over time as the culture changed. Marijuana, whose scientific name is Cannabis sativa, was ... for glaucoma. A person with glaucoma has too much pressure in the eye. Greunwald says, "Reduced intraoccular pressure was discovered accidentally during trial on the affect of inhaling high doses. During tests intraoccular pressure dropped 45%." It seems that marijuana is the "jack of all trades" when it comes to medicine. However, abuse of the drug causes a prejudice against its ...

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