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| Doctors say that if marijuana was made legeal they would personally write presciptions for it. |
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Zeese, Kevin, and William Ruzzamenti
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| That's because there's very strong evidence that marijuana works as a medicine. It's effective in controlling muscle spasms for people with neurological problems, in controlling nausea and increasing appetite for cancer and AIDS patients, and in controlling the eye pressure that causes damage in glaucoma |
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Zeese, Kevin, and William Ruzzamenti.
"That's because there's very strong evidence that marijuana works as a medicine. It's effective in controlling muscle spasms for people with neurological problems, in controlling nausea and increasing appetite for cancer and AIDS patients, and in controlling the eye pressure that causes damage in glaucoma" (23) |
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| Having such a desire to help their patients make a full recovery, doctors sometimes make their own patients break the law."Many doctors already recommend that their patients break the law and get; marijuana" |
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Zeese, Kevin, and William Ruzzament
"Many doctors already recommend that their patients break the law and get; marijuana"(23)
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| the use of marijuana provides relief from various debilitating diseases without the unbearable side effects of medically prescribed drugs. |
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Day, The (New London, CT).
Editorial: OK medical marijuana.
"the use of marijuana provides relief from various debilitating diseases without the unbearable side effects of medically prescribed drugs."
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| Our country as a whole spends $68 billion a year on its prisoners, one-third of which are imprisoned for nonviolent drug crimes. About half of these criminals are marijuana offenders, which means one-sixth of our country’s prisoners are in jail for marijuana-related charges. Legalizing the drug would mean spending $11.3 billion less a year on prisons. |
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Madeline Wolff
Legalizing Marijuana Can Reduce Crime, Increase Revenue for State.
" Our country as a whole spends $68 billion a year on its prisoners, one-third of which are imprisoned for nonviolent drug crimes. About half of these criminals are marijuana offenders, which means one-sixth of our country’s prisoners are in jail for marijuana-related charges. Legalizing the drug would mean spending $11.3 billion less a year on prisons." |
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Studies show that Medical Marijuana is safer than most of the prescription drugs that are out there and can treat the same symptoms.
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Angela Morrow, RN
What are the pros and cons of medical marijuana?
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| Marijuana can relieve spasticity of the muscles that is sometimes associated with multiple sclerosis and paralysis. |
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Angela Morrow, RN
What are the pros and cons of medical marijuana?
"Marijuana can relieve spasticity of the muscles that is sometimes associated with multiple sclerosis and paralysis." |
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Like every drug, Marijuana also has some side affects. For instance it can cause short-term memory loss.
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Angela Morrow, RN
What are the pros and cons of medical marijuana? |
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| Smoking marijuana can severely damage the lung tissue. |
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Angela Morrow, RN
What are the pros and cons of medical marijuana? |
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| Frequent Marijuana use can impair your cognitive ability. |
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Angela Morrow, RN
What are the pros and cons of medical marijuana? |
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| Marijuana is the only drug that has a total of 0 reported deaths. While 17 of FDA Approved Drugs have a recorded total of 10,008 deaths from 1/1/97-6/30/05. |
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| Deaths from Marijuana v. 17 FDA-Approved Drugs. |
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| If you look at the illnesses currently in the bill, these are not people who want to get high," Williams said this morning. "They are not recreational users, and if they are recreational users, at some point now it's a medical benefit for them. |
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Reindl, JC
"If you look at the illnesses currently in the bill, these are not people who want to get high," Williams said this morning. "They are not recreational users, and if they are recreational users, at some point now it's a medical benefit for them." |
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| Medical Marijuana users shouldn't also abuse it either. It's a drug that although is not fatally dangerous, excess use can result in more harm than good, at least smoking wise. |
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Groff, Garin
Medical Marijuana Prescriptions boost number of DUI's in Mesa |
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| "They're pretty confident that just because they have that card, that they can be smoking at will and through their daily lives," he said. "They seem to think that's OK, they can do whatever they want." |
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Groff, Garin
Medical Marijuana Prescriptions boost number of DUI's in Mesa
"They're pretty confident that just because they have that card, that they can be smoking at will and through their daily lives," he said. "They seem to think that's OK, they can do whatever they want." |
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| Marijuana can also have a effect on your driving more than a day after the initial use. |
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Groff, Garin
Medical Marijuana Prescriptions boost number of DUI's in Mesa |
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| Some problems officials face with the legalization on marijuana is more drivers driving under the influence. |
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Groff, Garin
Medical Marijuana Prescriptions boost number of DUI's in Mesa |
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| The number one dilemma of officials is, detecting that drivers are under the influence. Unlike alcohol marijuana detection can take month for results to come back, and there are no simple on the spot machines such as the breathalyzer. |
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Groff, Garin
Medical Marijuana Prescriptions boost number of DUI's in Mesa |
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Detecting alcohol use is easy and inexpensive with a breath test, but there's no equivalent for drugs.
Portable machines cost thousands of dollars, and each test is expensive. Most police take a suspect's blood and have it tested in a lab, but Miecke said a backlog in Arizona can make police wait up to a year for results. Mesa recently started its own lab to get results within a month or two. |
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Detecting alcohol use is easy and inexpensive with a breath test, but there's no equivalent for drugs.
Portable machines cost thousands of dollars, and each test is expensive. Most police take a suspect's blood and have it tested in a lab, but Miecke said a backlog in Arizona can make police wait up to a year for results. Mesa recently started its own lab to get results within a month or two. |
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Groff, Garin
Medical Marijuana Prescriptions boost number of DUI's in Mesa
" Detecting alcohol use is easy and inexpensive with a breath test, but there's no equivalent for drugs.
Portable machines cost thousands of dollars, and each test is expensive. Most police take a suspect's blood and have it tested in a lab, but Miecke said a backlog in Arizona can make police wait up to a year for results. Mesa recently started its own lab to get results within a month or two." |
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Most over the counter drugs have one way to take in or else the medicine wont work. Marijuana on the other has a multitude of way that it can be taken such as, smoking, vaporizing,,drinking, oils, and even using it as butter to cook with. (Procon.org)
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Cavanaugh, Jay, and Dale Gieringer. "What Are Some of the Pros and Cons between Smoked and Non-smoked Medical Marijuana? |
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"Smoking marijuana will certainly affect perception, but it does not cause permanent brain damage. 'The findings were kind of a surprise. One might have expected to see more impairment of higher mental function. Other illegal drugs, or even alcohol, can cause brain damage...
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Cavanaugh, Jay, and Dale Gieringer. "What Are Some of the Pros and Cons between Smoked and Non-smoked Medical Marijuana?
"Smoking marijuana will certainly affect perception, but it does not cause permanent brain damage. 'The findings were kind of a surprise. One might have expected to see more impairment of higher mental function. Other illegal drugs, or even alcohol, can cause brain damage...
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| Marijuana also has many "dangers". Potency is one because not all have the same amount of THC levels. It's made up of hundreds of different chemicals most might be a helpful to a persons pain but other types of chemicals might worsen potentially create new problems or cause bad side affect like nausea, hunger, drowsiness and such.(Procon.org) |
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Is marijuana too dangerous to be used as a medicine?
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If we barely find this tiny effect in long-term heavy users of cannabis, then we are unlikely to see deleterious side effects in indivduals who receive cannabis for a short time in a medical setting...
If it turned out that new studies find that cannabis is helpful in treating some medical conditions, this enables us to see a marginal level of safety."
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Cavanaugh, Jay, and Dale Gieringer. "What Are Some of the Pros and Cons between Smoked and Non-smoked Medical Marijuana?
If we barely find this tiny effect in long-term heavy users of cannabis, then we are unlikely to see deleterious side effects in indivduals who receive cannabis for a short time in a medical setting...
If it turned out that new studies find that cannabis is helpful in treating some medical conditions, this enables us to see a marginal level of safety."
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| Marijuana can cause sterilization in patients who use it more often. |
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| Malerba, D.O., Larry. "Medical Marijuana: The Pros and Cons of Legal Cannabis." |
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| Marijuana is well known to be able to induce anxiety disorders, including panic attacks. More rarely, when used by the wrong individuals, it may serve as a trigger for psychotic states, including schizophrenia. I don't believe that it "causes" psychoses as much as it can be the straw that breaks the camel's back for individuals already predisposed to developing such conditions. |
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Malerba, D.O., Larry. "Medical Marijuana: The Pros and Cons of Legal Cannabis."
"Marijuana is well known to be able to induce anxiety disorders, including panic attacks. More rarely, when used by the wrong individuals, it may serve as a trigger for psychotic states, including schizophrenia. I don't believe that it "causes" psychoses as much as it can be the straw that breaks the camel's back for individuals already predisposed to developing such conditions." |
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| A reason why Marijuana is illegal is because it is thought to be a “gateway drug”, almost like a stepping stone for people to be introduced to more and more dangerous (and illegal) drugs. |
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| Malerba, D.O., Larry. "Medical Marijuana: The Pros and Cons of Legal Cannabis." |
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| Legalizing marijuana for medical purposes will lessen crime. People will no longer need to commit a crime to consume or distribute it. |
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| Malerba, D.O., Larry. "Medical Marijuana: The Pros and Cons of Legal Cannabis. |
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| Since marijuana is an illegal drug, studying it has become a problem. there is a small amount of information about its full potential and its full dangers. |
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| Cloud, John, and San Francisco. "Is Pot Good For You?" |
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| There has been a lot of government propaganda to avoid the use of marijuana for instance shrinking of testicles, severe memory loss and psychosis. |
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Cloud, John, and San Francisco. "Is Pot Good For You?" |
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Marijuana may directly affect the immune system, since one of the body's two known receptors for cannabinoids is located in immune cells.
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| Cloud, John, and San Francisco. "Is Pot Good For You?" |
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A recent study showed that THC inhibits production of immune-stimulating substances. But cigarette smokers may do greater harm to their immunity than pot users, who tend to smoke less
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| Cloud, John, and San Francisco. "Is Pot Good For You?" |
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| Medical Marijuana has been used for more than 5,000 years. |
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| Cloud, John, and San Francisco. "Is Pot Good For You?" |
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| Tobacco smokers showed the expected drop in lung function over time, research found that marijuana smoke had unexpected and apparently positive effects on the individual overall. |
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| Rochman, Bonnie, Maia Szalavitz, and Alice Park. "Study: Smoking Marijuana Not Linked with Lung Damage | |
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Low to moderate users actually showed increased lung capacity compared to nonsmokers on two tests, known as FEV1 and FVC. FEV1 is the amount of air someone breathes out in the first second after taking the deepest possible breath; FVC is the total volume of air exhaled after the deepest inhalation.
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Rochman, Bonnie, Maia Szalavitz, and Alice Park. "Study: Smoking Marijuana Not Linked with Lung Damage |
Low to moderate users actually showed increased lung capacity compared to nonsmokers on two tests, known as FEV1 and FVC. FEV1 is the amount of air someone breathes out in the first second after taking the deepest possible breath; FVC is the total volume of air exhaled after the deepest inhalation.
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“FEV1 and FVC both actually increased with moderate and occasional use of marijuana,” says Dr. Mark Pletcher, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco and the lead author of the study.
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Rochman, Bonnie, Maia Szalavitz, and Alice Park. "Study: Smoking Marijuana Not Linked with Lung Damage |
“FEV1 and FVC both actually increased with moderate and occasional use of marijuana,” says Dr. Mark Pletcher, associate professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco and the lead author of the study. |
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| Marijuana may produce a mild physical dependence that causes minor withdrawal symptoms whenuse is stopped, including nausea, insomnia, irritability, and anxiety. |
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Rochman, Bonnie, Maia Szalavitz, and Alice Park. "Study: Smoking Marijuana Not Linked with Lung Damage
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| some physical effects are diarrhea,cramps,weight loss or gain, impaired sex drive |
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| Cons of Marijuana Legalization." Marijuana Today |
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| According to a survey published in 2009 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), there were 16.7 million Americans (or 6.6%) who used Marijuana in the past month. |
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"Marijuana Quick Facts." Marijuana Today
According to a survey published in 2009 by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), there were 16.7 million Americans (or 6.6%) who used Marijuana in the past month. |
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| On average the government spends roughly about 10 billions dollars a year to keep marijuana off city streets. |
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| Pros of Marijuana Legalization." Marijuana Today |
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| While the State of California alone makes well over 14 billion a year on production of medical marijuana. |
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| Pros of Marijuana Legalization." Marijuana Today |
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A marijuana joint has about 50%-100% more tar than that of tobacco cigarettes.
Smoking one joint is equal to smoking 7-10 cigarettes. |
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| Cons of Marijuana Legalization." Marijuana Today |
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| A conflict that rises with patients who use medical marijuana is, finding jobs that either don't do routine drug tests or are okay with the person using medical marijuana |
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| Cons of Marijuana Legalization." Marijuana Today |
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| The speed at which Marijuana leaves your body depends on several factors including the speed of your metabolism, the potency of the THC, and the amount of Marijuana you smoke. Most commonly, traces of Marijuana can stay in your saliva for up to 3 days, urine for up to 30 days, and your hair for up to 90 days. |
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Cons of Marijuana Legalization." Marijuana Today
The speed at which Marijuana leaves your body depends on several factors including the speed of your metabolism, the potency of the THC, and the amount of Marijuana you smoke. Most commonly, traces of Marijuana can stay in your saliva for up to 3 days, urine for up to 30 days, and your hair for up to 90 days. |
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| If marijuana was legalized and regulated, an estimated $8 billion would be saved annually in government spending on enforcement (About.com) |
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| White, Deborah. "Pros & Cons of Legalizing Marijuana." |
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| In the hour after you smoke a joint, the danger of a heart attack significantly rises. |
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| White, Deborah. "Pros & Cons of Legalizing Marijuana." |
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| alcoholic beverages could lead to alcohol poisoning and do major damage to the brain, liver and can even lead to a coma while tobacco use can lead to emphysema, cardiovascular disease and many types of cancers. medicinal marijuana has been proved to be a life-saving medicine that helps to alleviate their pain |
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| Tran, Mi. "Should Marijuana Be Legalized: Pro-legalization |
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| National statistics show 872,000 arrests last year related to marijuana, 775,000 of them for possession, not sale or manufacturing.(About.com) |
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| White, Deborah. "Pros & Cons of Legalizing Marijuana."National statistics show 872,000 arrests last year related to marijuana, 775,000 of them for possession, not sale or manufacturing" |
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| Many teenagers and young adults who are caught for marijuana use are labeled as drug addicts for something that they were doing that was either recreational or medical. They are not permitted certain jobs, and kicked out of school. Which negatively impacts their life. |
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| White, Deborah. "Pros & Cons of Legalizing Marijuana |
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| The Only states to legalize medical marijuana are Alaska,California,Colorado,Hawaii,Maine,Maryland,Michigan,Montana,Nevada,New Mexico,Oregon,Rhode Island,Vermont, and Washington. |
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| Medical Marijuana." Marijuana Today. |
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