Fighting For Our Love Ones
In today’s world, most families have a love one struggling to live with cancer,
HIV, glaucoma, or multiple sclerosis. Most of us, here in the United States, have watched a love one endure the pain of chemotherapy, uncontrollable muscle spasms, or blindness. Our love ones not only suffer physical pain, but mental anguish as well. Our
dying loves ones are at war with our Federal Government. They are fighting for a chance at a better quality of life. They are fighting for the legalization of marijuana for medical use. Until marijuana is legalized for medical use, our love ones are forced to break the law.
"…my gift to my husband, John Joseph who died last year.
At the end of his life, ...
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of California for the passage of Proposition 215. In 1996, Proposition 215 was a proposed legislation in California that makes it legal for doctors to prescribe marijuana to terminally ill patients. Proposition 215 was passed by the voters of California, but patients who use marijuana could still and are prosecuted by our Federal Government.
Anne Boyce broke the law in order to obtain marijuana for her dying husband. Anne
Boyce, a sixty-seven year old Registered Nurse, is not your typical criminal, now is she?
Nevertheless, if Anne Boyce was caught by the law enforcement, she would be punished to the fullest extent of the law. Federally, possession of even one joint carries a maximum penalty of one year in prison (7). Cultivation of even one plant is a felony, with a maximum sentence of five years (7). Is this fair? Anne Boyce and others like her are law-abiding citizens, but they or someone they love are suffering from a grave illness, and legal pharmaceuticals ...
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(2)." The United States Food and Drug Administration has recognizes THC, and active ingredient in marijuana as a legal, safe, and effective medicine (3). THC is a bronchial dilator (4). It works like that of a cough drop to open lungs and to aid in removing smoke and dirt. Furthermore, many physicians recognize that marijuana has important medical uses. Marijuana can control severe nausea for chemotherapy patients as well as be therapeutic. It can restore the ability to eat for HIV patients as well as improve muscle control for multiple sclerosis patients (3).
Furthermore, for our loved ones suffering with glaucoma, marijuana can reduce
intracolar ("within the eye") ...
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