... be charged an outrageous government tax to buy it, instead of risking life and limb to illegally purchase one from some guy named Karl who doesn't deserve to share the air he or she breathes in let alone their hard earned money. Why give money to the scum of the earth when it can go to the government to aid in ... the natural and herbal essence of nature's finest product. Grant Setzler spoke at the IOM workshop in Louisiana about his use of marijuana to combat AIDS wasting syndrome and later for relief from the side effects of AIDS medication. [He said] " Every day I risk arrest, proper...

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... for its being prohibited. After thorough research it was found that marijuana, although currently illegal, has many positive effects in the treatment of certain illnesses, such as: cancer, AIDS, glaucoma and arthritis. Many newspapers that were misinformed about marijuana began running stories accusing marijuana as being an "Assassin of Youth." Marijuana was also associated with horrible car crashes ... in New England Journal of Medicine, "The advanced stages of many illnesses and their treatments are often accompanied by intractable nausea, vomiting, or pain. Thousands of patients with...

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... this drug is illegal, researchers have continued finding new ways for marijuana to assist in alleviating the symptoms in many patients. Research has found that AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis patients all have the ability to benefit from the drug. Despite the legal ramifications, there are still people ... patient, all that is left is the bare minimum. Marijuana assists in the alleviation of these side effects by easing the nausea that many AIDS patients suffer from, and also by increasing their appetite; so that once the nausea subsides they also have a desire to eat. Canc...

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... the most used "plus" of drug legalization discussed these days is its medicinal use. Proponents state that marijuana is effective when used as a pain killer on terminally ill patients. From AIDS to cancer, it has been said that these known painful and possibly fatal maladies can be remitted of some pain with use of marijuana. Already in the states of California ... life in these patients as well. For example, marijuana can help stimulate the appetites of AIDS patients, keeping their weight up preventing the physical "wasting away" that leads to early AIDS deaths. Many of today's new AID...

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... Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse survey 55% of graduating high school seniors have tried it at least once. II. How many of you have friends or relatives suffering from AIDS, glaucoma, or cancer? Image how much legalization would help these people in relaxing their symptoms and causing the side effect of hunger allows them to eat when their body still ... , glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis can find relief of side effects and get treatment with marijuana. A. Patients suffering from AIDS 1. The estimated number of Americans living with AIDS is about 1 million people. 2. The symptoms ...

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... be obtained. Unfortunately, these drugs also have severe side effects, most notably nausea and vomiting. Patients sometimes find these effects so distressing they abandon chemotherapy entirely. People with AIDS also experience these problems. Powerful anti-viral drugs such as AZT and the new protease inhibitors can induce severe nausea, vomiting, and other gastrointestinal effects. In September 1998 ... . Conclusions Marijuana has many important and practical uses. If given in moderation and under a controlled environment people should be able to use marijuana for illnesses such as glauc...

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... synthetic analgesiscs are often not powerful enough" (92). The final way in which medical marijuana is used by doctors today is as an "appetite stimulant in AIDS patients"(Maier 22). Much like cancer patients the treatment of AIDS and the drugs that are used to do so cause nausea and rapid weight loss. The most commonly used drug in the fight against ... for the patient which leads to further weight loss in addition to the weight loss and nausea caused by AIDS itself (86). To curb these side effects many doctors turn to marijuana. In one case study in which marijuana was given to AIDS p...

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... Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse survey 55% of graduating high school seniors have tried it at least once. II. How many of you have friends or relatives suffering from AIDS, glaucoma, or cancer? Image how much legalization would help these people in relaxing their symptoms and causing the side effect of hunger allows them to eat when their body still ... , glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis can find relief of side effects and get treatment with marijuana. A. Patients suffering from AIDS 1. The estimated number of Americans living with AIDS is about 1 million people. 2. The symptoms ...

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... War on Drugs. There are many habits much worse than marijuana, one example being cigarette smoking. "Tobacco smoking kills more people each year than AIDS, heroin, crack, cocaine, alcohol, car accidents, fire and murder combined. Tobacco smoking is the number one cause of preventable death in the ... Hemp can be used to treat many diseases, some of which include: multiple sclerosis, depression, epilepsy, migraine headaches, asthma, glaucoma, cancer treatment, AIDS treatment, emphysema, and stress reduction. This list does not even include the many medicines that can be made from marijuana...

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... After being charged with the cultivation of marijuana he appeared in court. Judge George King, found McWillams guilty without hearing his defense, which would have argued that he was an AIDS and cancer patient and got relief from the marijuana. McWilliams was released on $250,000 bail. The bail terms required McWilliams, be tested randomly for marijuana use. Prohibited from using ... marijuana kept the pill down. This incident confirms that prohibiting the use of medical-marijuana can cost lives (Buckley 11). Marijuana has been shown to help in the fight against AIDS, HIV, cancers, glau...

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... less 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 terminally ill patients. Among them are AIDS victims who find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous emaciation; ... marijuana. These include: the institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Family Physicians; American Bar Association; American Public Health Association; American Society of Addiction Medicine; AIDS Action Council; British Medical Association...

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... it is the miracle drug. The cannabis news ran a report stating, "The report concluded the cannabinoids can relieve pain, reduce vomiting, and stimulate appetite in people with diseases, such as Aids, that causes them to loose weight"(www.cannabisnews.com/news/5/thread5889.shtml). There are numerous painkillers out on the market, which are very effective. Just a few of these pills are ... and you start to cough that is not going to help out the situation. There are also many prescription drugs that help Aids patients fight the disease and get their appetite back. Health Square recommends...

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... have tried it. Out of that number 85% consider marijuana a "safe" drug. Marijuana uses range from the illegal recreational user to various medicinal uses in diseases such as AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, and multiple sclerosis, among others (Marijuana Prohibition Facts). Groups encouraging the decriminalization of marijuana in the United States argue that money freed up from the prison systems ... basement (NORML). These laws are a large factor in the estimated $12 billion spent annually on the war on marijuana (Marijuana Prohibition Facts). Various respected organizations such as the AIDS Acti...

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... some of the dangerous side effects, marijuana should be considered for legalization for use by seriously ill people. Doctors have been struggling to find cures to diseases such as cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis. A diagnosis of any of the three is like a death sentence since there is no cure. Many of the treatments used today are just to suppress the disease ... . Cancer patients for example have to undergo chemotherapy. The side effects of chemotherapy treatments are nausea and vomiting. One could not imagine that these treatments would make a patient comfortable. Most AIDS patient...

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... damages the digestive system, and causes severe nausea. The patients also loose their appetites and therefore they loose weight. This leads to a condition called AIDS wasting syndrome, which is one of the major causes of death from AIDS. Wasting syndrome leaves the body weak, and therefore vulnerable to cancers and infections. To stop the wasting syndrome, patients can smoke marijuana, which stops ... by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), it said: "Marijuana's active components are potentially effective in treating pain, nausea and the anorexia of AIDS wasting, and other symptoms."...

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... . Peripheral nerves that detect pain sensations contain abundant receptors for cannabinoids, and cannabinoids appear to block peripheral nerve pain in experiments. Two leading diseases in the world are cancer and AIDS. Medical marijuana can help both of them. In polls, in California people who take medical marijuana, 60% said they requested the drug due to ... AIDS. People who take medical marijuana for AIDS say it helps the painful nerve damage, dementia and helps them with depression and anxiety. For cancer, users of the drug say it helps by quelling nausea, suppressing vomiting, incre...

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Legalizing Marijuana To the AIDS or cancer patient, it is the plant that fights nausea and appetite loss. To the nutritionist, its seed is second only to the soybean in nutritional ... despite the fact that it is illegal, and that they would prescribe marijuana if it were legalized. When Kenny and Barbara Jenks, of Panama City, Florida, developed AIDS, the only thing that made them hungry and decreased their nausea were several hits of marijuana each day. Neither of them had ever been marijuana smokers before, but ... related to cancer chemotherapy. At the peak of the Drug Wars in the late 198...

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... completely unrelated to the war on drugs." (Verhovek 2). Marijuana has been proven to show the effectiveness it has in reducing nausea induced by cancer chemotherapy, stimulation of the appetite in AIDS patients, and reducing intraocular pressure in people with glaucoma (Morgan 16). In one study of 65 patients who got no relief from standard antiemetic agents, 78% became symptom free when ... that were being taught to the American public were myths. According to John P Morgan the myth that marijuana kills brain cells came from a brain imaging technique called pneumoencephalography, whic...

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... with the chills. You look in the mirror only to see a small, frail, sick looking body looking back at you. This is just a small taste of what people that have AIDS go through. These people deal with this sickness everyday of their lives. Sometimes even modern medications can't relieve the symptoms of their disease and effects of their treatments they must ... is effective in reducing nausea and vomiting and patients undergoing chemotherapy have found smoking marijuana to be more effective than pharmacy medications like Marinol. Marijuana is smoked by thousands of AIDS patients to treat ...

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... to ancient China. It was used by most of the world's cultures for its healing properties (Medical Marijuana Cases 1). Today such conditions as Migraine headaches, Glaucoma, Cancer, Epilepsy, Asthma AIDS/HIV, Spinal injury, Muscle spasms, Insomnia etc., could be treated for symptomatic relief with cannabis or cannabis extract. However, marijuana is still considered an illegal drug in most states in ... 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 undergroun...

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... , which is useful to someone suffering from glaucoma. Studies have also shown that marijuana is a significant source for reducing the extreme nausea resulting from chemotherapy. This fact helps people with AIDS and cancer live a more normal life, while fighting the diseases. Marijuana is also an appetite stimulant. Marijuana by inducing appetite and relieving nausea helps ... AIDS patients eat and keep food down, lessening the "AIDS wasting-syndrome." Marijuana has also been found to relieve pain associated with multiple sclerosis, post-polio syndrome, and certain types of spinal and cra...

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... marijuana as a potentially dangerous drug with no redeeming medical value. According to the Marijuana Policy Project (MPP), medicinal marijuana can provide superb relief for patients who suffer from: arthritis, depression, AIDS, multiple sclerosis, etc. Marijuana is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known. No one has ever died from an overdose, and it has a wide variety of therapeutic applications: Relief ... eye") pressure; Reduction of muscle spasms; Relief from chronic pain. Marijuana is frequently beneficial in the treatment of the following conditions: AIDS. Marij...

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... Cohen, M.D., F.A.C.P., Consulting Medical Oncologist at California-Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, stated cancer patients tolerate chemotherapy drugs through the use of marijuana. In his opinion, marijuana aided cancer and aids patients by improving their appetite and general nutrition. These benefits lead to a better quality of life . Anna Boyce, a registered nurse at Mission Viejo concurs, "I know, from watching my ... medicinal properties, including analgesia, muscle relaxation, bronchodilation, appetite stimulation and sleep induction, among others. Marijuana has remarkably...

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... , 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 a great deal of research in cannabis's medical ... and Canada will be next to grant approval, within about six to nine months." (New Scientist). Marijuana should be legalized in the United States for medical purposes. Greg Scott has aids and to prolong hi...

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... purely for medical reasons: to ease the nausea of chemotherapy, to reduce the pain of multiple sclerosis, to alleviate the symptoms of glaucoma, and to improve appetite dangerously reduced from AIDS, are only some to mention. Medical marijuana has taken its toll in improving the health of all. But why is it, that if some is caught in possession of this ... prescribe in order to reduce pain and suffering."" (Leshner 3)Numerous published studies have shown that people suggest that marijuana has medical value in treating patients with serious illnesses such as AIDS, glaucoma, cancer, multi...

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