The act is entitled The Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and it's purpose is to give Californians the right to possess and cultivate marijuana for medical purposes, "where the medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of Cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief" (Schaler 121) Nothing in the act permits persons using marijuana for medical purposes to engage in cond...

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In a test of marijuana users ever trying cocaine, it shows that from 1975 to 1996 the highest it ever got was twenty five percent, and before that it was down ten to Fifteen percent. ... For more than twenty years, Dutch citizens over age eighteen have been permitted to buy and use cannabis, also in Holland; anyone more than fifteen years old can buy marijuana as easily as different flavors of ice cream. ... Some myths of marijuana and highway safety are marijuana-like alcohol- seriously impairs driving in some respects; pot is even more impairing than alcohol. I think this is true because mar...

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Lysergic Acid Diathylamide (LSD) was first made in 1938 by a chemist in Switzerland named Albert Hoffman whom first tested it on animals. ... After testing it under a controlled substance, he later noted that it brought forth fear and disorganization. ... Hoffman then sent LSD around the world to be tested and investigated to find medical uses. ...

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