Marijuana Should Be Legal For Medicinal Reasons Only

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and greatly reduces damaging pressure in the eye caused by glaucoma (4, p.1). The fact that smoking marijuana to relieve medical distress is still illegal is alarming. If marijuana can help so many suffering victims of these ailments, then why keep it out of use? Marijuana ranked ninth in order of preference for the treatment of mild to moderate nausea and vomiting, and sixth for treatment of more severe symptoms induced by chemotherapy (8, p.1). Forty-four percent of oncologists have recommended cannabis sativa, marijuana, to at least one patient (4, p.2).
Of the respondents who had prescribed marijuana thought that it had relieved post chemotherapy effects efficiently in 50% of patients (8, p.1).
The debate over whether or not to prescribe marijuana to relieve the
pain of the terminally ill patients is no debate at all. No one in
their heart of hearts opposes this. There is no rational reason to
deny people who are dying anything. Whether it’s a morphine
cocktail or ...

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