... material goods, preventing our rain forest to be destroy at such a rapid rate. This protects our environment and provides more trees that help clean the air we pollute. Hemp cultivation can also provide many new jobs in the Untied States. With more jobs, more people work, more people earn, and ... I believe the medical applications marijuana provides to the sick, is the most important. Marijuana can therapeutically help patients who suffer form illnesses such as AIDS and cancer. Marijuana is less toxic than any conventional medicine and an overdose death from marijuana is unheard of part...

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... the immune system. It also sometimes causes severe nausea that heightens the danger of semi-starvation for patients who are already suffering from nausea. AIDS patients who smoke marijuana have noticed reduced pain, and the elimination of vomiting and headaches. Patients who have stopped taking AZT and instead used ... to power many millions of cars. Biomass fuels are clean and virtually free from metals and sulfur, so they do not cause nearly as much air pollution as fossil fuels. Even more importantly, burning biomass fuels does not increase the total amount of carbon dioxide in the E...

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... has been rising since the mid 1990's. Marinol, a capsule containing THC, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1985. Marinol helps people with serious medical conditions, such as AIDS and cancer. Some states have passed laws allowing the usage of marijuana for medical purposes. The usage of medical marijuana is illegal in the United States. People in the states ... burned down 37 homes and 56,500 acres of land was caused by an "antipot copter- searching for weed. Putting out the fire took 2,700 firefighters, 17 helicopters and 10 air tankers costing about $21 million ...

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... has been rising since the mid 1990's. Marinol, a capsule containing THC, was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 1985. Marinol helps people with serious medical conditions, such as AIDS and cancer. Some states have passed laws allowing the usage of marijuana for medical purposes. The usage of medical marijuana is illegal in the United States. People in the states ... burned down 37 homes and 56,500 acres of land was caused by an "antipot copter- searching for weed. Putting out the fire took 2,700 firefighters, 17 helicopters and 10 air tankers costing about $21 million ...

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... spasticity ailments. Federal regulations continue to make research with the drug very difficult, however, and many promising areas of therapeutic application have received little or no attention. These include: asthma, AIDS, epilepsy, analgesic action, tumor retardation, nervous disorders, glaucoma and mental illness. The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, intended to prohibit marijuana's social use, was most effective in prohibiting medical ... summarized the medical value of marijuana saying: "The accumulated data suggest a variety of indications, particularly for pain relief, antiemesis, and ...

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... spasticity ailments. Federal regulations continue to make research with the drug very difficult, however, and many promising areas of therapeutic application have received little or no attention. These include: asthma, AIDS, epilepsy, analgesic action, tumor retardation, nervous disorders, glaucoma and mental illness. The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, intended to prohibit marijuana's social use, was most effective in prohibiting medical ... summarized the medical value of marijuana saying: "The accumulated data suggest a variety of indications, particularly for pain relief, antiemesis, and ...

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... spasticity ailments. Federal regulations continue to make research with the drug very difficult, however, and many promising areas of therapeutic application have received little or no attention. These include: asthma, AIDS, epilepsy, analgesic action, tumor retardation, nervous disorders, glaucoma and mental illness.The Marijuana Tax Act of 1937, intended to prohibit marijuana's social use, was most effective in prohibiting medical ... summarized the medical value of marijuana saying: "The accumulated data suggest a variety of indications, particularly for pain relief, antiemesis, and a...

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... , Ms, and epilepsy. In the stomach it restores appetite, which can be beneficial for chemotherapy (also helps with nausea in chemo patients), and AIDS patients, and can also be useful in helping anorexia. There are also a number of medical uses of marijuana. The medicinal use of marihuana has ... is yet to be found a appetite stimulating chemical in marijuana. However, the natural weight gain marijuana can produce is beneficial for chemotherapy patients and AIDS patients. It can also be used for anorexics and bolemics who suffer from malnutrition and need to gain back lost weight. Many ag...

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... could concentrate on the control of the drugs that are a serious threat to society. Marijuana as Medicine Marijuana can be used for several medicinal purposes. Marijuana is effective for treating AIDS-related wasting and the nausea from cancer chemotherapy.20 Other prescribed drugs are used but are often expensive and don't always work. The drugs also have harmful side effects. Many ... marijuana. Several researchers were disgusted by the ad and called-up TV networks to complain about the commercial. As a result of this the Partnership had to pull it from the air. The commercial was rev...

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... 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, epilepsy, and paralysis (Donnelly 2). According to studies conducted by researchers at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Cornell Medical College in New York, and the ... for medicinal purposes in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Oregon and Washington state. Also numerous organizations have taken action in support of medicinal marijuana including AIDS A...

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... active chemical in marijuana, is manufactured into a pill available by prescription that can be used to treat the nausea and vomiting that occur with certain cancer treatments and to help AIDS patients eat more to keep up their weight. Note: Please keep in mind that people's experiences with marijuana may vary and depend upon the dose of the drug, frequency of ... . Also, since marijuana can affect judgment and decision making, its use can lead to risky sexual behavior, resulting in exposure to sexually transmitted diseases like HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Smoking marijuana causes s...

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... patients with a variety of other serious ailments. Marijuana is proven to help ease the nausea, vomiting, and the loss of appetite experienced by many AIDS patients without accelerating the rate at which HIV positive individuals develop clinical AIDS or other illnesses (National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, Statement on the Medical Use of Marijuana). Marijuana is not only used for ... ...

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... makes no sense ", echoing the belief of the American farmer and industrialist (Kaplan, Kolosov, & Pitt, 2013, p.3). The environment is the world's life-support system that provides people with water, air, food, and shelter. Human beings are ravenously depleting nature's raw materials on a daily basis. Over half of the world's cultures have rapidly developed into an industrial society, thriving on materialism ... risen by more than 100 times during the twentieth century; 2. Habitat clearance, that is in less than 200 years more than 6 million square kilometer of forest have been removed ...

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... makes no sense ", echoing the belief of the American farmer and industrialist (Kaplan, Kolosov, & Pitt, 2013, p.3). The environment is the world's life-support system that provides people with water, air, food, and shelter. Human beings are ravenously depleting nature's raw materials on a daily basis. Over half of the world's cultures have rapidly developed into an industrial society, thriving on materialism ... risen by more than 100 times during the twentieth century; 2. Habitat clearance, that is in less than 200 years more than 6 million square kilometer of forest have been removed ...

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... prohibition makes no exception for the medical use of marijuana. The tens of thousands of seriously ill Americans who presently use marijuana as a therapeutic agent to alleviate symptoms of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, or multiple sclerosis risk arrest and jail to obtain and use their medication. Between 1978 and 1996, 34 states passed laws recognizing marijuana's therapeutic value. Most recently, voters in ... ...

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... 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 ... ...

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