The SAS Statistical Analysis Package was used to conduct statistical analysis (American Psychiatric Association, 1997). ... Every person had to fill out a consent form and a questionnaire about their age, gender, education level, medical history, and past and present use of legal and illegal use of drugs. ...
Marijuana has undergone analysis for its use as a medicine and the results have shown improvements in the patients who were treated with this drug. ... Granted, not all doctors feel cannabis should be a "legal" prescribed medicine, it is in their hands to decide so. ...
Marijuana has had analysis for its use as a medicine and the results showed improvements in the patients who were treated with this drug. ... Nevertheless, not all doctors feel that cannabis should be a "legal" prescribed medicine; it is in their hands to decide so. ...
Due to the overwhelming caseloads processed through the court system, the needs of the offender for additional treatment (i.e., drug addiction, mental illness, alcohol abuse) find themselves incarcerated in an already overcrowded jail or prison with little or no treatment programs to address their i...
This cost analysis is relevant in the case of the drug prohibition policy in that the resources use to implement the policy are limited, police and prisons. ... (DEA/CDC) The misallocation of resources is totally exhausting and paralyzing the entire legal system that could be better targeted on a more productive agenda. ...
Since the passage of the Harrison Act in 1914, the federal approach to drug abuse control has included a variety of ways for reducing both the supply of, and demand for, illicit drugs. At first the supply and demand reduction strategies were grounded in the traditional deterrence model: Though leg...
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 cannabis. ...
