... marijuana may 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 Policy ... Americans favor the legalization of cannabis for medicinal purposes while nearly half supports essentially decriminalizing the drug," (Langer). Medical marijuana could be valuable to hund...

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... 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 all terminally ill or debilitating medical conditions. The law itself lists; cancer, HIV, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy or other seizure disorders, or spasticity disorders, intractable pain, glaucoma, and ... 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...

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... wide variety of patients. In fact Physician's Association for AID's Care and National Lymphoma Foundation, among others, all support the movement for legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes to treat the terminally ill. For people with glaucoma, when marijuana is smoked it has been shown to reduce the intraocular pressure that causes damage to the optic nerve. Out of all the drugs produced ... associated with the use of cannabis but most of the risks involve heavy use and do not occur one hundred percent of the time. I say it is unethical to deny a terminally ill patient of a drug th...

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... , Oregon, and Nevada. A section of proposition 215 of California which was voted on and passed in 1996 reads: To ensure that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a ... or written consent from a physician can legally grow and use marijuana for health reasons. This proposition was passed to ensure the health of seriously ill people. The nonmedical usage of marijuana is not deemed acceptable under the proposition. ("Medical") This was instated to give those who use ...

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... admitted into the club (Donnelly H). Another group lead by Valerie Corral, who was arrested twice for growing marijuana to help control her epilepsy, deliver free marijuana to about 30 seriously ill people in the Santa Cruz area. They are very selective, and before giving the drug to their patients, they meet with each patient, talk to their family, and make sure ... and effectiveness of marijuana is being overlooked. As a result, many doctors are recommending the drug, regardless of the possible legal issues. Marijuana may have long term side-effects but for terminally ill patients loo...

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... of the medicinal use of marijuana. There are many different things that must be considered other than the morals of the government and its citizens, or the rights of seriously ill patients, such as the research of marijuana's medicinal values. Others include the governments' laws, distribution and dosage complications, and possible drug abuse problems. The purpose of this paper is to ... those sufferers and the benefits of this substance.""(Young, 1988, p.1). However, not everyone shared his views, and prohibition continued, and marijuana remained a schedule 1 drug, closed to medical re...

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... marijuana has legitimate medical applications and should be available to doctors. Lyn Nofziger, former deputy chairman of the Republican National Committee, said, "Marijuana clearly has medicinal value. Thousands of seriously ill 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 ... California Action Network, the National Association of People With AIDS, and the New England Journal of Medicine ("Medicinal Marijuana Facts"). In conclusion, marijuana does have ther...

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... , glaucoma, and AIDS are among those who find that marijuana reduces their pain associated with chemotherapy and powerful drugs like AZT. By reducing nausea and stimulating appetite in severely and terminally ill patients, marijuana can help lengthen life span and improve quality of life. Many doctors have been convinced that marijuana works in some cases, and many doctors now quietly recommend it ... . Unfortunately, because marijuana is illegal, patients must break the law to get it. Patients using marijuana today must risk arrest. These seriously ill people have been put in an impossib...

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... More calls for legalized cannabis 5). Political Turmoil and Reality Serra states that "We all appreciate that California voters passed Proposition 215, which allows for medical usage of marijuana for seriously ill Californians: a person with a recommendation from a doctor is entitled to grow and use marijuana" (74). Serra then illustrates somewhat of the opposite of what we saw in relationship to understanding medicinal ... up front that they are doing everything they can to de-actualize that law. That is, they will arrest people who have doctors' recommendations. They will seize plants...

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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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... in the relief of these terminal diseases? Marijuana is more effective than conventional drugs in many instances. Denying cannabis treatment to the sick and dying is cruel and unnecessary. The terminally ill patients marijuana use does not pose a threat to the public or encourage the illegal trafficking of drugs. Strong majorities in several states have approved medical marijuana initiatives. The federal government ... ...

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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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