In today's society, patients and doctors argue that it relieves pain, nausea, loss of appetite, muscle spasms, and other symptoms of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, asthma, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and paralysis (Donnelly 2). According to studies conducted by researchers at Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Cornell Medical College in New York, and the National Institute of Health; marijuana undoubtedly controls nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients, some of whom are not helped by standard anti-emetics. ... Also, with marijuana, the patient can have a better regulation of their dosages by ...

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The drug lobbyists ask for legalization on the platform of marijuana for cancer patients and other sufferers of disease. The advocates for the war on drugs feel that the drug lobby is exploiting the ill and dying to get their foots in the door for the legalization of the recreational use of marijuana. ... The inescapable truth is that getting drug traffickers off the street protects neighborhoods against criminals, violent crime and social ills attendant with drug use. ...

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With the decision in Colorado to legalize marijuana not only for medical use, but for recreational use as well and Washington State considering the same, the question arises: Is marijuana legalization right for America? My own view is that in the case of a medical necessity, possibly, if there are no other alternatives, but in the case of recreational use absolutely not. This paper will weigh the pros and cons on each side of this debate and show that although there may be some benefit to legalization, the negative repercussions far outweigh those benefits. One of the premises that advocates f...

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