Medical_Marijuana__Menace_Or_Medicine

Medical Marijuana: Menace Or Medicine Marijuana: Medical Or Menace' In this country we put a lot of faith and trust into our doctors. We trust them with our health, our personal information, and most importantly we trust them with our lives. So why is do we not let them make the decision to prescribe marijuana to people who are in most need of it' In this paper I will try to state all the facts from both sides and hopefully convince you that proposition 215, the legalization of medical marijuana is good for California. Proposition 215 will allow seriously and terminally ill patients to legally use marijuana, if, and only if, they have the approval of a licensed physician. Marijuana is not a cure, but it can help cancer patients. Most have severe reactions to the disease and chemotherapy--commonly, severe nausea and vomiting. One in three patients discontinues treatment despite a 50% chance of improvement. When standard anti-nausea drugs fail, marijuana often eases patients' nausea and permits continued treatment. It can be either smoked or baked into foods. University doctors and researchers have found that marijuana is also effective in: lowering internal eye pressure associated with glaucoma, slowing the onset of blindness; reducing the pain marijuana, patients, proposition, 215, prescribe, medical, trust, physicians, people, often, doctors, cancer, university, under, treatment, suffering, state, severe, recommendation, permit, pain, one, now, need, nausea, make, let, less, laws, government, glaucoma, found, federal, effective, drugs, decision