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- 351: The Need To Legalize Pot
- ... based patients' right group, says as many as five-million sick Americans might benefit from the legal access to marijuana. Marijuana has been found to: relieve nausea and stimulate appetite in people with cancer and AIDS, control muscle spasms among people with multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorder, reduce eye pressure among people with glaucoma, and some say it also controls seizures, eases chronic pain, and relieves depression. Dr. Ernest Rosenbaum ...
- 352: Proposition 215: Should Marijuana Be Legalized?
- ... where that medical use is deemed appropriate and has been recommended by a physician who has determined that the person's health would benefit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief. (B) To ensure that patients and their primary caregivers who obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes upon the recommendation ...
- 353: Psychodelic Drugs
- ... up hundreds and even thousands of dollars' worth of cocaine, and put them selfs in significant risk. For those injecting cocaine, this could mean 10 or more injections in a night, with increased risk for AIDS if sterile needles are not used. To complicate matters medically, users often consume large quantities of alcohol to handle their crashes. Other "Speed" Drugs Two other stimulants are known to be abused locally. They have ...
- 354: Marijuana
- ... turned down for the last two years. This year all the old laws that have been turned down have been put together to make a great law. This law actually passed November 5, 1996. Marijuana aids in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief. The American Cancer society says NO to marijuana because it is not a substitute ...
- 355: Legalization of Marjuana
- ... The first claim by the supporters of marijuana is for medical reasons. Through much research doctors have found that marijuana may be a treatment for such illnesses as glaucoma, cancer, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). In fact, Proposition 215 just passed in California and Arizona giving citizens the right to smoke marijuana for medical reasons (Medical 1). One thing that is overlooked with this is that marijuana is not a ...
- 356: Is The Illegalization of Marijuana Valid?
- ... the heaviest marijuana smokers rarely use as much as an average tobacco smoker. And, of course, many prefer to eat it." His book includes personal accounts of how prescribed marijuana alleviated epilepsy, weight loss of AIDs, nausea of chemotherapy, menstrual pains, and the severe effects of Multiple Sclerosis. The illness with the most documentation and harmony among doctors which marijuana has successfully treated is MS. Grinspoon believes for MS sufferers, "Cannabis ...
- 357: Opposing Euthanasia
- ... and easy euthanasia exit. David Cundiff feels that pain is the principle complaint of terminally ill patients. Therefore, handling and adequately treating the pain are the main issues: "Whereas standard medical treatment for cancer and AIDS strives to prolong life at virtually any cost, palliative care seeks to optimize the quality of life of the patients' remaining time."(Cundiff 6-7) A palliative care program in the United States hospitals would ...
- 358: Suicide
- ... Suicide is one of the top ten leading causes of death in the United States. There are about 11.2 suicides per 100,000 people. It accounts for approximately the same number of deaths, as AIDS does each year. There are approximately 775,000 attempts in the United States each year. The National Institute of Mental Health estimates that there are 8- 25 suicide attempts for each actual completion of suicide ...
- 359: Assisted Suicide
- ... money on people who desperately need it? This money could be better spent on saving people's lives that actually want to live. Cancer patients could be allotted more money to pay for their chemotherapy. Aids patients would be able to earn federal assistance in purchasing their desperately needed medication. The extra money could also be used to improve the quality of peoples' lives who are forced to live in unpleasant ...
- 360: Faith Healing
- ... can be used as a cry for help. Christ symbolized with his outreached hand's compassion and strength. Christians pray with their hands together to ask for help. Our hands then can be seen as aids to our minds. Ralph DiOrio says that "The mind acting is the mind thinking. The result of thinking is thoughts and the minds actions are the minds thoughts
[therefore] the mind needs no[verbal] words ...
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