There are many reasons that marijuana should be made legal, but there are also reasons that it should not. ... Marijuana has undergone analysis for its use as a medicine and the results have shown improvements in the patients who were treated with this drug. ... Right now, the use of marijuana for medical purposes is only legal in California. ... The legalization of cannabis would allow the United States to reduce government spending on enforcing drug laws and would allow the United States to enjoy new tax revenue from legal drug production and sales. ... On the other hand, if marijuana becam...

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How is it possible to distinguish among the drugs and human metabolites from legal use of prescription opiates (morphine, codeine, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, and dihydrocodeine), innocent ingestion of poppy seeds in food (morphine and codeine), and true drug abuse (heroin and morphine)? ... This is a case where the lure of a sensitive analysis technology outweighs the value of its use. ...

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Marijuana has undergone analysis for its use as a medicine and the results have shown improvements in the patients who were treated with this drug. ... Granted, not all doctors feel cannabis should be a "legal" prescribed medicine, it is in their hands to decide so. ...

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Marijuana has had analysis for its use as a medicine and the results showed improvements in the patients who were treated with this drug. ... Nevertheless, not all doctors feel that cannabis should be a "legal" prescribed medicine; it is in their hands to decide so. ...

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