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. ... Valid documentation can be a statement signed by the patient's physician or a copy of the patient's pertinent medical records. ... 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 s...

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A shortcoming of the decriminalization of marijuana may be that it can be more easily attained by children; however, marijuana may prove to be more beneficial to society by reducing illogical criminal detention, alleviating terminally ill patients, as well as encourage economic reform. ... Medical marijuana could be valuable to hundreds of thousands of terminally ill patients worldwide. ... Thirteen different states now have the authority to prescribe medicinal marijuana to ill patients. ... Marijuana has proven to be a beneficial substance that's properties promote wellness in...

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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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This prohibition has denied thousands of critically ill patients a drug that would effectively treat their illness and relieve their pain. ... Graham Boyd, an attorney representing a group of plaintiffs including eleven prominent cancer and AIDS physicians in San Francisco presented to a federal judge on Friday, April 11, 1997 the following statement: "The federal government has issued broad threats against physicians who might recommend marijuana to some of their seriously ill patients. ... We assert that doctors have the right to discuss medical marijuana with patients, and we are seeki...

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The program those seven patients participate in is now closed to any and all new applicants. All other patients using marijuana medicinally are considered criminals. Americans are firm in their desires. 72% believe that marijuana users should not be jailed and 80% endorse marijuana's uses in treating seriously ill adults (Marijuana Prohibition Facts). ... These general symptoms are also associated in AIDS patients. ... The best known use for marijuana is that in glaucoma patients. ...

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Marijuana helps prevent nausea and vomiting during cancer therapy, which in turn, does cause the cancer patient to maintain a health body weight. ... Significant weight loss, more than twenty percent of ideal body weight, is associated with shortened survival of HIV-infected patients ("Workshop"). ... Marijuana will increase the patient's desire for food. Accordingly it will cause less suffrage for the patient. ... This is proved to occur in normal people as well as glaucoma patients. ...

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The "Pro Pot Movement" says that marijuana could help AIDS patients, but studies have shown that marijuana impairs the immune system, which is exactly what AIDS patients suffer from. ... Ophthalmologist Amrum Lakritz, MD, states "My patients haven't had to turn to marijuana. ... Patients who require the use of marijuana are better off to take it as a pill instead of smoking it. ... Patients are not at my doors clamoring for it. ... The way in which Proposition 215 is worded implies that it will only apply to seriously ill people, but with a closer look, one will see that the proposition n...

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Throughout all of the debate surrounding this issue, one thing remains, while people are sitting around debating whether ill people should use marijuana to help them feel better, there are sick people sitting around making themselves feel better illegally through the use of marijuana. ... AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) patients have been found through research to benefit from the use of marijuana. ... Cancer patients find marijuana a helpful drug for the same reasons. ... "Studies in the early 1970s showed that marijuana, when smoked, lowers intraocular pressure in patients with...

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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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Imagine that you were one of those people and somebody told you about an herb that could slow and sometimes stop this condition, but like always, here is the catch; that herb is ill! ... Marijuana is frequently beneficial in the treatment of many serious conditions. 1) Marijuana is useful in patients with: Glaucoma, cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, chronic pain, and Aids. 2) All of those things that I just mentioned have been deemed legitimate by at least one court, legislature, and government agency in the U.S. 3) Marijuana has also been reported useful in treating arthritis, migrai...

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Reformers still press legislation today to make the psychoactive plant available to medical patients as well as the general adult population. ... It is scientifically accepted that marijuana proves useful for pain management, suppression of nausea in AIDS and cancer patients, and can act as an anti-spasmodic, as well as flatly disproves the gateway theory, which stated that users of cannabis would go onto harder drugs. ... Another example of marijuana helping patients is Chris Donald, who was a cancer patient. ...

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Judy Foreman states that a hardy band of activists seeking legislative approval of perennial bill that would bring Massachusetts in line with 34 other states in letting patients with certain conditions smoke marijuana (1). 2 What was known, as the "wicked weed" of the sixties can be good medicine . ... While experts debate the medical use of marijuana, patients in Santa Cruz, San Francisco and Alameda County are lining up at Cannabis Buyers" Club to receive the drug. ... Although some chronically ill people and their physicians argue that the drug eases their pain and suffering, the ques...

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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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Dronabinol, also known as Marinol, has been available since approval in 1985 by prescription nausea reducer for chemo therapy patients and their reactions to the many required drugs as well as an appetite suppressant for AIDS patients, but it's a synthetic version and doesn"t contain many other beneficial chemicals found in the plant. ... Unfortunately due to political forces and the risk of speaking out and voicing ones support for legalizing marijuana, there are many ill and pain stricken citizens out there unable to use a helpful medicine. ...

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