In 1972, a petition was made to legalize marijuana for medical patients. ... This procedure enabled a few patients to receive marijuana from the government. ... Most patients never consider the idea of an illegal drug as being their best medicine. ... There are countless numbers of stories that impart unfortunate circumstances concerning ill people using marijuana. One particular story is about a man named Peter McWilliams, the author of the book Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do, and is a severely ill AIDS patient. ...

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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. ... If the pressure is not alleviated, the patient will ultimately become blind. ... Ten patients averaged a decrease of %24.6 in intraocular pressure. ... Many cancer patients say it alleviates the severe nausea that accompanies chemotherapy, and the medicines used to treat the horrible disease. ... All it did was make the patients uncomfortable and was not nearly as effective as natural cannab...

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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). ... Glaucoma, AIDS, cancer and MS patients have all benefited from the drug. ... The terminally ill patients marijuana use does not pose a threat to the public or encourage the illegal trafficking of drugs. ...

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Marijuana helps prevent nausea and vomiting during cancer therapy, which in turn, does cause the cancer patient to maintain a health body weight. ... Significant weight loss, more than twenty percent of ideal body weight, is associated with shortened survival of HIV-infected patients ("Workshop"). ... Marijuana will increase the patient's desire for food. Accordingly it will cause less suffrage for the patient. ... This is proved to occur in normal people as well as glaucoma patients. ...

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The "Pro Pot Movement" says that marijuana could help AIDS patients, but studies have shown that marijuana impairs the immune system, which is exactly what AIDS patients suffer from. ... Ophthalmologist Amrum Lakritz, MD, states "My patients haven't had to turn to marijuana. ... Patients who require the use of marijuana are better off to take it as a pill instead of smoking it. ... Patients are not at my doors clamoring for it. ... The way in which Proposition 215 is worded implies that it will only apply to seriously ill people, but with a closer look, one will see that the proposition n...

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., reported that the mentally ill could be calmed down and controlled after smoking marijuana. ... The Compassionate Use Program was slowly but surely beginning to allow ill citizens to be prescribed marijuana for their illnesses. ... Cannabis is assumed effective in promoting weight gain in HIV and AIDS patients, not to mention reducing their pain and suffering. Many patients claim that marijuana is almost 100% effective in relieving the nausea in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy (Asseo 1). ...

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It also stimulates the appetite, and helps patients with HIV, or dementia. ... A recent study found that many oncologists had advised marijuana therapy to patients, and almost half of physicians supported legalizing medical marijuana. ... The case involved a group (the "buyers club) that distributed marijuana to terminally ill patients. The Supreme Court ruled against the buyers club, and the sick patients had no safe source for medical marijuana. ...

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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. ... Patients must have a safe immediate access to their medical cannabis by dispensaries, home cultivation, or medical cannabis programs. ... For example, a medical cannabis patient, Joseph Casias, was prescribed the drug in order to relieve and suppress his migraines induced from his inoperable cancerous brain tumor. ... The legalizat...

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Millions of people are diagnosed with AIDS or cancer every year. Although there is no cure, doctors have discovered that marijuana is one step in the right direction. Marijuana is also used for many other purposes. To the AIDS or cancer patient, it is the plant that fights nausea and appetite loss...

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Imagine that you were one of those people and somebody told you about an herb that could slow and sometimes stop this condition, but like always, here is the catch; that herb is ill! ... 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 at least one court, legislature, and government agency in the U.S. 3) Marijuana has also been reported useful in treating arthritis, migrai...

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