... be that it can be more easily attained by children; however, marijuana may prove to be more beneficial to society by reducing illogical criminal detention, alleviating terminally ill patients, as well as encourage economic reform. Legalizing marijuana may significantly decrease the percentage of individuals incarcerated each year. According to Ethan Nadelmann, founder of the Drug ... access to medical marijuana," (NORML). NORML suggests that the immediate advantages from marijuana compensate for any smoking related ailments for some patients. Thirteen different states now have the autho...

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... Washington. It is not however, legalized for recreational use. Under the Medical Marijuana Act, cultivation of marijuana plants for personal, medical use of patients is permitted. However, cultivation for recreational use is still considered a felony. This act addresses cultivation only for one's personal consumption. There is ... Act was designed to protect patients from prosecution for medical use of marijuana. Primary caregivers are people who may have contact with the medicinal marijuana for somebody who is too ill to prepare it themselves. The Medical Marijuana Law does not cover a...

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... finding doctors willing to take the time to work through the new program's system. Then in 1992, when a flood of applications from AIDS patients came through, the Bush administration closed the program to all new applicants. On December 1st, 1999, the Clinton administration stated that the IND program ... , Maine, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington, have voted in favor of adding to the ballot, the idea of removing the criminal penalties for seriously ill people who grow or possess medical marijuana. This however, due to federal opposition, is still not the practice of these states. You can st...

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... also used marijuana to treat headaches, insomnia, and menstrual cramps and the drug was available in most drug stores (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 ... Cancer Institute, Cornell Medical College in New York, and the National Institute of Health; marijuana undoubtedly controls nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients, some of whom are not helped by standard anti-emetics. Lester Grinspoon, leading activist for medicinal mar...

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... use of marijuana say there are traditional medications to help patients and marijuana is not needed. Supporters of marijuana legalization answer that for many patients, traditional medications do work and they do not require or desire medical marijuana. However, for a significant number of serious ill patients, including patients suffering from AIDS, cancer, multiple sclerosis and chronic pain ... among others, traditional medications do not provide symptomatic relief as effectively as medicinal cannabis.7 Dronabinol (trade name Marinol) is a legal, synthetic THC alternative to cannabis...

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... not supported by the American Glaucoma Association and doctors agree that there are more effective medicines available. Ophthalmologist Amrum Lakritz, MD, states "My patients haven't had to turn to marijuana. There are so many new drugs for glaucoma coming out all the time" (Lacayo). Fact's discrediting ... available in pharmacies for decades. In the synthesized form of marijuana, better know as Marinol, the active ingredient (THC) is isolated and controlled. Patients who require the use of marijuana are better off to take it as a pill instead of smoking it. In pill form, the dosage rema...

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... not supported by the American Glaucoma Association and doctors agree that there are more effective medicines available. Ophthalmologist Amrum Lakritz, MD, states "My patients haven't had to turn to marijuana. There are so many new drugs for glaucoma coming out all the time" (Lacayo). Fact's discrediting ... available in pharmacies for decades. In the synthesized form of marijuana, better know as Marinol, the active ingredient (THC) is isolated and controlled. Patients who require the use of marijuana are better off to take it as a pill instead of smoking it. In pill form, the dosage rema...

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... , also studied marijuana. He declared it "by far the most useful of drugs in treating painful maladies." ("Disease Categories"). Moureau de Tours and Dr. John Bell, M.D., reported that the mentally ill could be calmed down and controlled after smoking marijuana. It also treated manic and depressive disorders ("Cannabis Vault 6"). Doctor Roger Adams and Todd Mikuriya were able to rehabilitate numerous alcoholics ... Use Program was started. Under this program, only twelve people were allowed to begin smoking pot for their illnesses. The Compassionate Use Program was slowly but surely begi...

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... Glaucoma, a common disease defined by slow and progressive loss of vision, is the second-leading cause of irreversible blindness in the United States behind diabetes mellitus. With the majority of patients largely asymptomatic in early stages, perhaps experiencing only headaches or eye discomfort, it is no surprise that medical attention is not solicited until the advanced stages of the disease manifest ... from thirty-five millimeters of mercury to fifteen in the other. Such results have been marked in numerous other cases, leading scientists to firmly believe that marijuana does help ...

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... researchers who surveyed 2,430 oncologists; of the 1,035 who responded nearly 50% said that they had suggested smoking marijuana to at least one of their patients, despite the fact that it is illegal, and that they would prescribe marijuana if it were legalized. When Kenny and Barbara Jenks, of Panama ... At the peak of the Drug Wars in the late 1980s the Department of Health and Human Services began receiving dozens of applications from AIDS patients, for whom marijuana's hunger inducing effects was the only thing that separated them from life and death. As they lost weight and strength...

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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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... the substance was made illegal on April 14, 1937. Reformers still press legislation today to make the psychoactive plant available to medical patients as well as the general adult population. One of their main arguments is that our constitution promises us the right to decide for ... can be used for medical purposes. It is scientifically accepted that marijuana proves useful for pain management, suppression of nausea in AIDS and cancer patients, and can act as an anti-spasmodic, as well as flatly disproves the gateway theory, which stated that users of cannabis would go ... distributing ...

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... legitimate beneficial purposes. Pro-Legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care and the 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 resume their normal eating patterns and prevent weight-loss, a serious concern. Those suffering from ... horrible disease. Cannabis makes lifesaving treatment possible where it wasn't before. Until 1937, there were twenty-seven medicines containing marijuana were legally ava...

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... have legalized "Medical marijuana", the drug is being prescribed for glaucoma, Crohn's disease, seizure disorders, nausea from chemotherapy, and cancer patients (Feature). It has been found that marijuana works significantly better than opioids among patients dealing with chronic pain. Opioids come with a large set of side effects that bring just as many problems for the user as they ... minor ones. Some of marijuana's side effects actually benefit the user. For example, marijuana helps nausea and gives the user an increased appetite, which would be useful for extremely ill patients and ...

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... of Medical Marijuana Research). Consequently, after so many testimonies and evidence from both sides, the unity of scientists, doctors, and medical cannabis patients nationwide urged the DEA to comply with the court's finding and halt the federal obstruction of medical cannabis research. The Obama administration also concurs ... research. Another problem of rescheduling cannabis to a less restrictive schedule would not prevent people from being arrested and punished for using cannabis recreationally. Patients must have a safe immediate access to their medical cannabis by dispensaries, ho...

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... a unique side effect profile. It has synergistic interactions with other analgesics. It exhibits "side effects" that are considered useful in some clinical situations. Its efficacy is enhanced in patients who have developed tolerance to opioids."(Joy, 140) In English, this basically says that marijuana is actually better than many current analgesics (pain killers) in that it produces fewer ... 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 termin...

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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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... 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, ... marijuana to the Supreme Court. The Court ruled that the state laws were unconstitutional since they violated the federal drug law (Supreme Court 1). Despite the Sup...

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... marijuana aids in the treatment of many ailments. These include pain relief from neuropathic pain, nausea, glaucoma, and certain movement disorders. It also stimulates the appetite, and helps patients with HIV, or dementia. New research even suggests that marijuana may protect the body from certain types of malignant tumors, and are neuroprotective. There are more than 60 United ... use of marijuana. The American Cancer Society and the American Medical association support clinical research in marijuana studies. A recent study found that many oncologists had advised marijuana therapy to pa...

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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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... has been sharply divided. Some dismiss medical marijuana as a hoax that exploits our natural compassion for the sick; others claim it is a uniquely soothing medicine that has been withheld from patients through regulations based on false claims (Joy). For thousands of years, the drug marijuana has been used to treat a wide variety of ailments ("The Need toÉ"). Between 1840 and ... pain, nausea, the anorexia of AIDS wasting, and other symptoms." Loss of appetite and wasting are among the most lethal side effects of cancer treatments. Glaucoma, AIDS, cancer and MS patients have all benef...

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... by prescription today. Dronabinol, also known as Marinol, has been available since approval in 1985 by prescription nausea reducer for chemo therapy patients and their reactions to the many required drugs as well as an appetite suppressant for AIDS patients, but it's a synthetic version and doesn"t contain many other beneficial chemicals found in the plant. There has been and continues to be ... be legalized in the United States for medical purposes. Unfortunately due to political forces and the risk of speaking out and voicing ones support for legalizing marijuana, there are many ill a...

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... while being on seven different medications. After beginning treatment using medical marijuana, her seizures decreased to two or three per month. (Grupta, 2013) follows up with, "I have seen more patients like Charlotte first hand, spent time with them and come to the realization that it is irresponsible not to provide the best care we can as a medical community, care that ... about the lack of consistency in composition of marijuana and the side effects. There is a widely held belief that medicinal marijuana is being predominantly used by those who are not ill, but want legal protection...

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... federal governments cannot regulate laws drugs but only the states legislatives can. Just like in California where citizens exercise the use of legalized marijuana for medical purposes to help cancer patients. The war on drugs has had a dramatic use when it comes in for the cost of war starting in 1971 when president Nixon went without congress approval to declare war ... impairs your vision and balance. Smoking marijuana overturns of the rumor of leading to bronchitis or chronic inflammation because the "Beneficial compounds in the marijuana smoke cancel out the ill effects" (Brownstei...

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... suggest that marihuana should be legalized just because it "feels good". It reportedly produces a high that makes life more enjoyable, and gives the user a sense of well being without any ill effects. Some users argue that marijuana is safer than alcohol and tobacco in that it produces fewer negative side effects. In fact, the U.S. National Institute of Drug Abuse reports that ... reported it to be helpful in the treatment of glaucoma and seizures as well as in treatment of AIDS wasting syndrome (2-5). Other studies point to the value of marijuana in patients suffering from MS, epilepsy...

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