(WorkShop) This banned medicine also has many other valuable resources to offer the country. ... "Last year, Robert MacCoun of the University of California at Berkeley and Peter Reuter of the University of Maryland, compared trends in cannabis use in the US, Norway (which bans it), and the Netherlands. ... People consider it a gateway drug because adolescents often smoke marijuana before they go off into worse and more abusive/addictive drugs. ... In a way alcohol and cigarettes are gateway drugs too; youths are just looking for a way to rebel. ... The drug was delivered as a spray into t...

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Messer was arrested for using an illegal drug for its therapeutic value. ... Marijuana is a Schedule I drug, under the Federal Controlled Substance act(Mathre 4). Other Schedule I drugs include the two most lethal drugs, heroin and cocaine. ... This standard doctor's practice is to issue all conventional medications before resorting to experimental drugs (i.e. marijuana)... They instituted a more restrictive policy: "Any patient using marijuana, and any physician prescribing it would face federal prosecution; the physicians in addition would lose their drug licenses and might even be bann...

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