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. AIDS patients find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous emaciation. ... 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, an...

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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. ... Cancer patients, for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. ... These agencies believe that marijuana should not be legalized because if marijuana is to become legal then thousands more patients would be using marijuana. ... The agencies also argues that no other drug prescribed is smoked and that knew findings...

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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." ... Among them are AIDS patients who say it stimulates their appetites and therefore countering deadly emaciation; cancer patients who say it aids in allaying ruthless nausea that comes with chemotherapy; glaucoma suffers who credit marijuana for saving their sight, and multiple sclerosis victims who claim it limits the muscle pain and spasticity caused by the deadly disease. In some patients marijuana has also been helpf...

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Marijuana has been known to help cancer patients, but the physician cannot prescribe marijuana as medicine. ... 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. ... [O]nly about one in ten patients prefers Marinol to smoking pot"(44). ... This proposition was passed to ensure the health of seriously ill people. ... Research shows that it helps terminally ill people so how can our government still stand in the way of medical progress. ...

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Thousands of seriously ill Americans have been able to determine that for themselves, although illegally. ... Only eight people today receive marijuana through a federal "compassionate use" program which stopped admitting new patients in 1992 after the number of applications, mostly from AIDS patients, increased dramatically. ... The March 1999 NAS report found cannabinoid drugs "promising for treating wasting syndrome in AIDS patients," and recommended those patients unresponsive to conventional AIDS medications smoke marijuana to combat the wasting syndrome ("Medical Marijuana"). ... There a...

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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. ... Yet, medical marijuana is frequently favored by its patients, and may include risk of an emotional addiction. ... Nor can they disseminate themselves from drug taking" ("ARGUMENTS") Doctors in any way shape or form do not prescribe to the population that chooses to use this drug for medicinal purposes; it is simply a suggestion, which more or less would have a possibility to help the patient. Although, many patients become dependent on it; and yearn to obtai...

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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. ... Despite the Supreme Court ruling, patients still used marijuana as a form of treatment for their diseases. ... Scientific evidence suggests that marijuana is helpful in reducing pain and suffering for patients with glaucoma, arthritis, chronic pain, and a variety of other serious ailments (NORML 3). For example, marijuana eases the nausea...

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Pain is the most common symptom for which patients seek medical assistance. ... Its efficacy is enhanced in patients who have developed tolerance to opioids."... 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; glaucoma sufferers who have used marijuana said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for ...

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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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