... for any purpose. Or at least not the smoking of marijuana. They already have a pill that contains the THC from marijuana that is given to cancer and AIDS patients. When the THC is derived into a pill it takes away almost all the harmful chemicals that marijuana contains. THC pills are legal ... in the United States today. The THC pill helps cancer patients treat their nausea and vomiting and help People who are suffering from AIDS gain weight because it causes them to become hungry or "get ... babies born to mothers who did not use marijuana. The THC in marijuana has a very high concent...

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... . However, many doctors obtain THC from the federal government under special arrangements in order to prescribe it for cancer patients. THC is effective in reducing the nausea that cancer patients suffer from. Marijuana may stimulate appetite. Marijuana may be smoked or taken by mouth. The same dose ... have some therapeutic value. The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of selected steroids for treating specific types of anemia, some breast cancers, osteoporosis, endometriosis, and hereditary angioedema, a rare disease involving the swelling of some parts of t...

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... . However, many doctors obtain THC from the federal government under special arrangements in order to prescribe it for cancer patients. THC is effective in reducing the nausea that cancer patients suffer from. Marijuana may stimulate appetite. Marijuana may be smoked or taken by mouth. The same dose ... have some therapeutic value. The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of selected steroids for treating specific types of anemia, some breast cancers, osteoporosis, endometriosis, and hereditary angioedema, a rare disease involving the swelling of some parts of t...

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... . However, many doctors obtain THC from the federal government under special arrangements in order to prescribe it for cancer patients. THC is effective in reducing the nausea that cancer patients suffer from. Marijuana may stimulate appetite. Marijuana may be smoked or taken by mouth. The same dose ... have some therapeutic value. The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the use of selected steroids for treating specific types of anemia, some breast cancers, osteoporosis, endometriosis, and hereditary angioedema, a rare disease involving the swelling of some parts of t...

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... ingredient which affects the mind is THC. THC, tetrahydrocannibol, is a prescribed drug which treats or prevents nausea and vomiting caused by cancer medicines, when other medicines do not work. THC can benefit many people. Marijuana should be legalized for medical purposes because it's proven ... to have health benefits such as treating Glaucoma, controlling epileptic seizures, and stops cancer cells from spreading. The legalization of medical marijuana in the United States would benefit millions of people around the country for medical ... deaths in the U.S is a result of cancer. (Can...

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... marijuana is illegal, people have shown that it has been very beneficial to them. It has been used to aid people who suffer from various diseases. It helps AIDS and cancer patients surpass pain, vomiting, nausea, and boosts their eating habits. Marijuana also helps people who have glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, and spasticity (American Medical Association). It improves the environment ( ... an appetite stimulant. According to Joni Commons, a deputy director of the county's health services, "smoking pot was the only thing that relieved her otherwise constant nausea from chemotherapy treat...

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... puffs, looked at me, and said, " 'The nausea's gone'. It was miraculous. Within seconds,the nausea just disappeared (TESTIMONY OF DR. GEORGE WAGONER)."Patients with cancer, seizures, and PTSD in were fighting to legalize medical marijuana in Texas as recently as last month at Capitol Hill, pleading with Congress see their side. Barbara Humphries was among ... those pushing for legalization, admitting she buys it illegally to cope with her intense chemotherapy for stage three breast cancer "(Patients fight for legal use of medical marijuana)." Along with nausea, patients undergoing ...

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... years could eventually experience more serious long term medical effects. "Marijuana deposits in the lungs roughly five times as much tar as tobacco and contains nearly 50% more of the cancer-causing chemical benzopyrene than the average tobacco cigarette" (In the Know Zone: "Marijuana"). This increases your risk of obtaining lung and oral ... cancer. Other long term effects include daily cough, chronic bronchitis, more frequent chest colds, injured lung structures, and pneumonia. Marijuana weakens the immune system by attacking the tissue that protects the ... to the fetus, and lower...

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... passed laws supporting the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. When smoking marijuana it relieves pain, nausea, stunts the growth of malignant breast tumors, protects the brain cells of stroke patients from being killed off, and helps people suffering from cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, menstrual cramps and depression. It has also been scientifically proven that marijuana has little to no addictive properties and ... ...

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