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. ... The public can petition the Medical Quality Assurance Commission to add any other terminal or debilitating conditions to the list. ... 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 shouldn...

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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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Some dismiss medical marijuana as a hoax that exploits our natural compassion for the sick; others claim it is a uniquely soothing medicine that has been withheld from patients through regulations based on false claims (Joy). ... Glaucoma, AIDS, cancer and MS patients have all benefited from the drug. ... How can you ignore a drug that aids in the relief of these terminal diseases? ... The terminally ill patients marijuana use does not pose a threat to the public or encourage the illegal trafficking of drugs. ...

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On one side there are those who claim marijuana is not an effective way to alleviate the pain of a terminal illness. However on the other side, there are those with the terminal illness who insist that smoking marijuana helps them to cope with everyday life. ... It also stimulates the appetite, and helps patients with HIV, or dementia. ... The case involved a group (the "buyers club) that distributed marijuana to terminally ill patients. The Supreme Court ruled against the buyers club, and the sick patients had no safe source for medical marijuana. ...

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Pro-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. ... If the pressure is not alleviated, the patient will ultimately become blind. ... Ten patients averaged a decrease of %24.6 in intraocular pressure. ... Many cancer patients say it alleviates the severe nausea that accompanies chemotherapy, and the medicines used to treat the horrible disease. ... All it did was make the patients uncomfortable and was not nearly as effective as natural cannab...

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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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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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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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