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- 21: About Medical Marijuana
- About Medical Marijuana Marijuana is medicine. It has been used for thousands of years to treat a wide variety of ailments. Marijuana (Cannabis sativa L.) was legal in the United States for all purposes - industrial and recreational, as well as medicinal until 1937. Today, only eight Americans are legally allowed to use marijuana as medicine. NORML ...
- 22: Is Marijuana Dangerous to your Physical Health?
- Is Marijuana Dangerous to your Physical Health? Recreational use of marijuana has been going on for many years, and like cigarettes many people refuse to listen to health reports. More and more reports are coming out on the effects of marijuana on the body. Just how harmful marijuana can be is questionable. Some health reports state that it is very detrimental to the body while others are explaining how chemicals extracted from the marijuana plant ...
- 23: Marijuana As Medicine?
- Marijuana As Medicine? Twenty years ago the thought of marijuana being used as a form of medicine would have scared and appalled people. Today, roughly two-thirds of Americans agree with the idea of marijuana being used as a therapeutic form of medicine. Marijuana has been used medically for ages. Presently it is effective in treating patients with ailments and diseases such as glaucoma, chemotherapy treatments, AIDS, and others. ...
- 24: Medical Uses Of Marijuana
- Medical Uses Of Marijuana For several decades, researchers have sought to determine whether marijuana has legitimate medical uses, and narcotics control agencies have discouraged them from finding out. Now a new round of federally funded research may provide some answers-or will it? The latest skirmish between scientists and police comes on the heels of two popular referenda, in California and Arizona, legalizing the medical use of marijuana. But since it remains a federal crime to grow, sell, or prescribe cannabis, the referenda have created only a legal morass. Barry McCaffrey, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, ...
- 25: Marijuana
- Marijuana One of the best-known hallucinogens is marijuana. Most people have hallucinations at one time or another, although they do not know when to expect them. Some people, however, have them on purpose. They do so by taking certain drugs called hallucinogens (Mann 48). No one knows exactly when the use of marijuana was first began, although they have found reference to its mind altering effects. One of the first references to marijuana was in the 28th century, when a Chinese Emperor Shen Nung recommended the medicinal ...
- 26: Legalization Of Marijuana
- By: jim E-mail: wutang112878@hotmail.com Recently doctors have prescribed marijuana, and the Clinton administration threatened to prosecute doctors who prescribe marijuana, (Gonnerman 40). Doctors are prescribing marijuana for its medical benefits. The Clinton administration on the other hand is outlawing marijuana because it has not been approved by the FDA. Since doctors feel marijuana has medical benefits it should be clinically ...
- 27: About Medical Marijuana
- About Medical Marijuana Marijuana is medicine. It has been used for thousands of years to treat a wide variety of ailments. Marijuana (Cannabis sativa L.) was legal in the United States for all purposes - industrial and recreational, as well as medicinal until 1937. Today, only eight Americans are legally allowed to use marijuana as medicine. NORML ...
- 28: Is Marijuana Dangerous to your Physical Health?
- Is Marijuana Dangerous to your Physical Health? Recreational use of marijuana has been going on for many years, and like cigarettes many people refuse to listen to health reports. More and more reports are coming out on the effects of marijuana on the body. Just how harmful marijuana can be is questionable. Some health reports state that it is very detrimental to the body while others are explaining how chemicals extracted from the marijuana plant ...
- 29: What Is Marijuana?
- By: Russel Chiacchia E-mail: Softfubu@aol.com What Is Marijuana? Marijuana is a drug obtained from dried and crumpled parts of the hemp plant Cannabis sativa (or Cannabis indica). It can be smoked by rolling in tobacco paper or placing in a pipe. It is also otherwise consumed worldwide by an estimated 200,000,000 persons for pleasure, an escape from reality, or relaxation. The main active principle of cannabis is tetrahydrocannabinol. ԤMarijuana is not a narcotic and is not mentally or physically addicting drug. One can use mild cannabis preparations such as marijuana in small amounts for years without physical or mental deterioration. Marijuana serves to ...
- 30: Use of Marijuana As Medicine
- Use of Marijuana As Medicine If your every waking moment was consumed by pain and nausea, wouldn't you ask for medication? What if the only medication legally available would leave you unconscious or do nothing at all ... resort to the only treatment that allowed you to live normally even though it was illegal? Thousands of people across the country are forced to break the law to ease their pain. They have chosen marijuana over anything legally available because it has various medicinal properties that cannot be found anywhere else. Due to these many unique medicinal uses, marijuana should be reclassified as a valid, legal form of treatment. Marijuana has many unique uses as a form of treatment. It has been used effectively to combat the nausea caused by chemotherapy, to reduce ...
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