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. ... Cancer patients use marijuana to alleviate the severe nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible. ... ...

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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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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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There are a variety of drugs for the treatment of depression but not all have the same effect on their patients; however, there is evidence that marijuana has helped treat depression on patients who have taken the drug. ... As you continue taking antidepressants, the side effects get worse; nevertheless, you can't stop medication as you become ill. ... Also, antidepressants increase the risk of suicide in younger patients (teens), marijuana doesn't. ... Cannabis on the other hand, is effective on all patients but only at low doses. ... Medication-induced suicide has taken the life of...

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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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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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