Legalizing Marijuana As A Controlled Medicinal Substance

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Subsequent scientific research has proven this to be inaccurate. Physician Lester Grinspoon maintains that that marijuana had been shown to be safe and therefore has legitimate medical applications that should be available to doctors (Grinspoon 24).
Several among marijuana's medical applications include its use in reducing nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS and by treatment with AZT and other drugs.
To help with this problem, marijuana allows terminally ill patients to ingest food several times per day. Additional studies have also shown that marijuana a promising treatment to help combat the "wasting syndrome" for AIDS patients (Grinspoon 85).
People with cancer can take marijuana to stimulate their appetite and relieve nausea and vomiting, which are common side effects of chemotherapy treatment. The NAS report concluded that short term marijuana use appears to be suitable in treating conditions like chemotherapy-induced nausea for patients ...

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the California Medical Association, the Lymphoma Foundation of America, the Multiple Sclerosis California Action Network and the New England Journal of Medicine (Queary).
Other arguments for legalizing marijuana cite the need to protect people's right to personal liberty. Individuals deserve the right to make choices for themselves and the government only has a right to limit those choices if the individual's actions endanger someone else. This does not apply to marijuana, since the individual who chooses to use marijuana does so according to his or her own free will. Proponents say that marijuana is far less dangerous than some drugs which are legal, such as alcohol and tobacco ...

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