Joyce Taus Title: The Medical Properties of Marijuana Purpose: To inform the audience of marijuana’s medicinal components and explain the medical benefits as well as the risks associated with the medication. Thesis: The five main factors to understanding marijuana’s role in medicine are: 1) Overview of cannabis and its chemical actions in humans. 2) Symptoms Treated‚ 3) Specific modes of administration‚ 4) Benefits of the drug‚ and 5) Risks of the drug. I. Introduction A. Hook (Gain the
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suffering in all forms would you? Medical Marijuana could help patients suffering from various illness‚ such as Cancer and epilepsy being some of the harshest diseases. If a child suffering from constant hourly seizures was to be treated with medical marijuana they could possibly stop the seizures all together but at the very least would reduce them significantly‚ to only two or three times per month. Due to the new medical advances cannabis sativa has been proven a medical miracle for epilepsy patients
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Medical Marijuana: A Topic Leaving People Up in Smoke Renee Grant ENC 1101-1002 Professor Bahle March 30‚ 2013 Medical Marijuana: A Topic Leaving People Up in Smoke Medical marijuana has been an ongoing fight between the federal government‚ physicians and patients. Contrary to many beliefs‚ marijuana‚ whether it is used for medical reasons or recreational is non-lethal. It has been proven to be useful in many medical conditions. There has
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Steven Delgado Compassionate use of Medical Marijuana Are you pro or con in the Legalization of Marijuana? Cannabis or marijuana is a plant that yields both drug and useful fibers‚ it’s no question ancient civilizations have been using this plant for thousands of years. The earliest known record that the cannabis plant has medicinal purposes that dates back to ancient china. The Chinese used the plant to treat their emperor Shen Nung.This dates back to 2737 B.C. this is where the plant spread throughout
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Michele Sanchez ENC1101 Professor Goldberg December 15‚ 2014 Legalization of Medical Marijuana My father is a diabetic and is currently a medical marijuana patient in California due to his poor eating habits. He was prescribed medical marijuana to lower and control his insulin level. In a multicenter collaboration‚ researchers found that regular marijuana use was associated with better blood sugar control in diabetics‚ according to an Elsevier press release (Rizk‚ par.2). The team was able to
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(Bureau of Mortality). The death rate of marijuana is zero‚ but yet the government sees it as a risk and criminalized a plant with great potential. The decriminalization of medical marijuana could create many cures and treatments‚ bring enormous tax revenue‚ and could be used for everyday needs. The criminalization of medical marijuana has proven to be a failure and a waste of resource and should be abolished. Concerns on the drug are understandable; many people fear that marijuana can lead to
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A growing number of states have adopted medical marijuana legislation in light of the many benefits that cannabis has shown to have in treating a number of medical conditions. Traditional medication has failed to produce the results that patients have expected in treating conditions such as severe epilepsy. South Carolina has joined with other medical marijuana states in allowing its citizens to have safe access to medical marijuana for treating the depilating condition. Six-year-old Mary Louise
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Pastures.Today we would like to tell you more about that. Hence please read on and be well informed of the same. The best thing you can do is to get your hands on the Medical Marijuana Dispensary Directory‚ and this would help you in locating a dispensary close to where you are. How Can Medical Marijuana Help Heal Ailments? Medical marijuana for a long time now has been known to help patients with chronic and severe ailments effectively. The symptoms for the same have been reduced‚ and even last
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Legalization of Medical Marijuana Tiffany Strangio-Knopp ENG103 Dana LaMantia January 30‚ 2013 Colorado Technical University Abstract Over time the use of medical marijuana has grown significantly. Research shows that the opposed opinions of well noted people and agencies have fought to both keep marijuana illegal as well as make it legal. Both sides stake claim to the use medically. This battle has been escalating greatly over the last 20 years. Marijuana has many uses‚ as well as
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Legalization of Medical Marijuana A. I researched the social trend of legalizing medical Marijuana. In the 1800’s‚ physicians in the United States gave their patients marijuana to treat anything from excessive menstrual bleeding to tetanus. Now days there are other ways to treat and prevent both issues‚ but what about the horrid disease‚ cancer. Marijuana went from being a very common "prescription" to illegal. My view on this is that it should not be legal in regards to recreational use‚ but it
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