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- 161: Hemp...A Help For Today
- ... scholars and wise men. It is usually ranked among the top medicines, called "panaceas", a word which means "cure-all". The list of diseases which cannabis can be used for includes: Multiple Sclerosis, Cancer treatment, AIDS (and AIDS treatment), glaucoma, depression, epilepsy, migraine headaches, Asthma, Pruritis, Sclerodoma, severe pain, and Dystonia. This list does not even consider the other medicines which can be made out of Marijuana -- these are just some of the ... can be made from small cannabis stems. The most well known use of Marijuana today is to control nausea and vomiting. One of the most important things when treating cancer with chemotherapy or when treating AIDS with AZT or Foscavir, being able to eat well, makes the difference between life or death. Patients have found Marijuana to be extremely effective in fighting nausea; in fact so many patients use it ...
- 162: Richard Nixon
- ... Persistent questioning led to an investigation. In the trial of the Watergate burglars had shown that a cover-up had concealed their activities and their connections with high government officials and the president's closest aids. A Senate committee on Watergate and the Justice Department revealed that this was one of many scandals involving Nixon and his loyalists. The actions of Watergate has been directed against the Democrats, and all but one of Nixon's aids and officials were forced to resign. These discoveries raised questions about Nixon's knowledge and participation in their cover-up. He issued inconsistent statements claiming the importance of presidency allowed him to withhold documents even ... after it was revealed that some tapes were missing. All of this caused other investigations to begin focusing on Nixon, such as possible income tax evasion and misuse of government funds. Nixon's top two aids and two other men were indicted in connection with the Watergate cover-up in 1974, and Nixon refused to hand over additional tapes that were demanded The tapes supplied to the courts would be ...
- 163: Medical Uses Of Marijuana
- ... content to close the book on the medical marijuana question, inhibiting any attempts at further research of its medical utility, and limiting research to marijuana's negative effects. In 1994 Dr. Donald Abrams, a California AIDS specialist, submitted a research proposal to compare smokable marijuana and Marinol because, he said, "we have 1,100 AIDS patients in the Bay Area using marijuana on their own." Abrams's draft proposal did not pass peer review, but the FDA helped Abrams develop a revised proposal, which was approved by several California research ... August 1994. After a delay of nine months, Abrams received a letter from Dr. Alan Leshner, director of the NIDA, turning down the proposal and leaving no room for further negotiation over revisions. "As an AIDS investigator who has worked closely with the National Institutes of Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the past 14 years of this epidemic, I must tell you that dealing with ...
- 164: Legalization Of Marijuana
- ... can prescribe it for their patients. Marijuana can be used for many medical reasons. For cancer patients receiving chemotherapy marijuana decreases vomiting and nausea; it also helps them deal with the anxiety of the treatment. AIDS patients can use marijuana because of its ability to stimulate their appetite. Marijuana can also be used to decrease the muscle spasms of people with epilepsy and multiple sclerosis. Glaucoma, a disease which causes blindness ... deal with the disease. There are drugs with marijuana’s active ingredient, THC, which can be used in place of marijuana, but most of them are problematic. Marinol can be used by cancer patients and AIDS patients. Marinol can cause intoxication; it is only available in a pill form which is hard to swallow while vomiting and it is difficult to take the correct dosage. Patients with epilepsy and multiple sclerosis ... thoroughly tested,”(Lost 9). This is because the National Institute on Drug Abuse has not allowed the testing of marijuana (Lost 9). Dr. Donald Abrams has had his requests for marijuana, to be used for AIDS research, denied because the NIDA fears multiple requests of this type (Lost 9). These multiple requests would be dreadful since actual research on marijuana would be done. Another argument that Brookhiser alludes to is “ ...
- 165: Urban Legends
- ... combination of LSD and strychine. The "Girls Initiation" tale is one of the tales that is most highly accepted. To join a gang, prospective female members must have unprotected sex with a HIV positive or AIDS infected member. Finally for initiation prospective gang members drive around at night with their head lights off, and kill the first person who flashes lights to warn them. This legend is so believable that schools ... message boards to warn students (Juvenile...1-2). "Creepy Tales" are told out of sheer reason to cause people to be more careful of what they do and to do so is to strike fear. "AIDS Mary" is a tale about man meeting a beautiful woman in a singles bar one night and taking her home. During the evening she tells him she had been raped a few years ago, but is now able to enjoy sex. The next morning,he wakes up to find her gone and in lipstick written on the mirror is the phrase,"Welcome to the AIDS Club."Another "Creepy Tale" involves a man coming home drunk one night, and staggering into bed. The next morning,his wife tells him how worried she gets when he comes home drunk. He agrees ...
- 166: Case Study For Human Resources
- ... evaluate alternatives in an attempt to remain profitable and competitive. Each alternative has special considerations which must be explored. The following considerations shall serve as the basis for further analysis. (These methods serve only as aids in decision making and are not implied to serve as concrete methods of job security.) · Affirmative Action Legislation · Gender Discrimination · Age Discrimination · Race Discrimination · Disability Legislation · Civil Rights · Wrongful Discharge · Job Performance Evaluations · Seniority · Communication ... are recognizing that seniority has its place in the firm, but employees must focus more on skills rather then tenure (Greenhalgh, Lawrence, & Sutton, 1988). Plan of Implementation Step 1. Inform all employees of impending cutbacks. Aids employees in accepting the likelihood of termination. Allows them to make informed decisions with family regarding alternatives. (Management Function) Step 2. Offer voluntary leave and inform all employees of severance package. Severance pay, medical benefits ... employee. When the chart is completed, sum the totals, and base termination on the three lowest scores. (Human Resource Function) Please see Table 1.1 Step 4. Conduct exit interviews. Establishes dismissed employees opinions and aids in further dismissal analysis. Helps the dismissed employees to convey their concerns of the process. (Human Resource Function) Step 5. Help with out placement assistance. Involves HR Department to help dismissed employees to establish ...
- 167: Impact of Television on Society
- ... educated middle class anglo australians , as well as the mass of working class immigrants. A striking example into the nature of bias into television reporting is the change in attitude in the coverage of HIV/AIDS . Initial coverage in virtually all western cultures was as propoganda from government departments as part of a public health campain. This warned of the danger of the spread of disease from the homosexual to hetero ... researchers etc... Most coverage took the format of a response to a national emergency . Over the years this approach has changed in the television media and news sources shifted towards non governmental bodies dealing with AIDS. The coverage became more sympathetic towards sufferers. The most important factor which shaped the news at this time was the medical /scientific consensus that the correct approach to take with this disease was medical and not moral. In this regard Australia has been very sucessful and AIDS news items have been absent from the media for some time. Televsion journalsim and news reporting has contributed to the impovrichment of public debate. Television news with it's 60 - 90 second news slots ...
- 168: Euthanasia And Suicide
- ... medical bills. Other problems involving public policy include the control of medical research, the question of whether all citizens have a right to health care, and the availability of drugs for severe illnesses, such as AIDS. Biomedical ethics addresses moral questions that arise from the use of medical technology to begin or maintain a life. Many ethical questions focus on medical procedures that affect human reproduction. These include in vitro fertilization ... decisions for a severely retarded newborn or an unconscious person, and dealing with requests for euthanasia from patients or their families. All three branches of medical ethics relate to one another. For example, patients with AIDS are concerned with the availability of newly developed medications (public policy medical ethics), participate in arguments about whether or not physicians are obligated to treat them (biomedical ethics), and make decisions about their care and ... enacted legal precedents that have made physician assisted suicide some what common since 1972. It is estimated that over 6000 people in Holland commit suicide with medical assistance from doctors. The majority of Holland’s AIDS patients end their lives by assisted suicide. Mercy killing has clearly become socially sanctioned in modern industrial societies. The living will is a document that states the kind of medical care an individual would ...
- 169: The Edutained American
- ... to their student’s requirements and entertain them. Are entertaining teachers such a bad thing? How many students, of any generation, enjoy a professor who lectures in monotone, with no videos, slides, or other teaching aids? Perhaps the new breed of educator is, in fact, good for our nation; GPAs are, after all, higher than ever in high schools and colleges. Possibly these teachers are exactly what we need; they reach ... to achieve it. These students can also be taught to keep a critical eye on the world around them, and the advertisements they see. To this end, some teachers are turning corporate sponsor’s teaching aids against them. Ms. Beccera, a teacher in the Seattle school district, uses Hershey’s “The Chocolate Dream Machine” to demonstrate “...the art of seeing behind the image being presented” (New York Times, Jan 5 1997:30). Her students will learn to question the motives and truthfulness of corporations that provide these types of aids, and, by learning to be fact-suspect, will not be so easily swayed by commercialism in the future. Young adults and the children now coming up may have been raised in an environment permeated ...
- 170: Marijuana As A Medicine
- ... as a form of treatment. It has been used effectively to combat the nausea caused by chemotherapy, to reduce the internal pressure of the eyes of glaucoma patients, and to prevent the “wasting syndrome” in AIDS and cancer patients (“Marijuana for the Sick” A10). As an alternative to using actual marijuana, modern science has developed a synthetic form of THC, the active chemical in marijuana. However, this synthetic drug, called Marinol, is useless for most everyday treatment because it has the unpleasant side effect of being a powerful sedative. A member of Milwaukee's AIDS community, said that a friend of his was taking Marinol to increase his appetite: “He spends the whole day laughing and watching movies...He can't even drive a car because he's so out ... the sick, it has grown to include the federal government's desire to maintain its dominance over the state governments. Unfortunately, people whose morality and patriotism prevent them from using marijuana to treat their cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, or other illness pay the price. The other opponents of marijuana as a form of medical treatment have presented several illogical arguments against it. Many opponents argue that marijuana is a “gateway drug” ...
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