Pro-marijuana 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. ... Among some of the terminally ill patients in need of marijuana are AIDS victims, glaucoma sufferers, and cancer patients. ... I believe that the medical use of marijuana should be legalized in order to help people suffering from terminal diseases such as AIDS, Cancer, Glaucoma, and Multiple Sclerosis. ...

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Primary caregivers are people who may have contact with the medicinal marijuana for somebody who is too ill to prepare it themselves. The Medical Marijuana Law does not cover all terminally ill or debilitating medical conditions. ... The public can petition the Medical Quality Assurance Commission to add any other terminal or debilitating conditions to the list. ... Primary caregivers are people who may have contact with the medicinal marijuana for somebody who is too ill to prepare it themselves. ... Whether or not, medical-grade marijuana can help many terminally ill patients and shouldn...

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Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care, National Lymphoma Foundation argue marijuana legalization in order to treat terminally ill patients. ... The legalization of marijuana would help people suffering from terminal diseases such as AIDS, Cancer and Glaucoma. ...

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Somewhere in between providing bored high school kids something to do and being used to treat terminally ill patients marijuana has acquired the title of the "gateway drug." ... Marijuana still has a lot of controversy to lay to rest before becoming accepted by society as more than just a feel good drug, but rather as an effective medicine for ill people. ...

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The prohibition of marijuana has denied critically ill patients across the United States a drug that would effectively treat their illness and relieve their pain. ... A section of proposition 215 of California which was voted on and passed in 1996 reads: To ensure that seriously ill Californians have the right to obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spa...

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In the U.S., cannabis sativa, which is better known as marijuana, is illegal for medicinal purposes because federal law includes it in Schedule I, a category for drugs deemed unsafe, highly subject to abuse, and possessing no medicinal value. After many scientific researches and people investigating...

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There are many who believe medicinal marijuana is in fact a beneficial way to cure patients of their aches and pains. Studies show that in the late 20th and 21st centuries, medical research has revealed various therapeutic effects of marijuana ("The Editors"). Yet, medical marijuana is frequently fa...

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In 1996, Californians for Medical Rights introduced Proposition 215, which would permit seriously and terminally ill patients, with a prescription from their doctor, to use marijuana in their medical treatment and protect them from criminal punishment. ...

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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. ...

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Definition The use of illicit or illegal drugs or the abuse of prescription or over-the-counter drugs for purposes other than those for which they are indicated or in a manner or in quantities other than directed. History of Drug Abuse Humans have used drugs of one sort or another for thousands of years. Wine was used at least from the time of the early Egyptians; narcotics from 4000 B.C.; and medicinal use of marijuana has been dated to 2737 B.C. in China. But not until the 19th cent. A.D. were the active substances in drugs extracted. ...

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