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    medicines to treat cancer are, chemotherapy and radiation treatments, which may cause nausea and tiredness during administer of these medicines. According to Backes, in the early 1990s, a great number of U.S. oncologists voted in a survey to urge cannabis to at least one of their patients undergoing chemotherapy. Including medical marijuana in combination with chemotherapy, showed to effectively alleviate nausea and vomiting. Due to modern technology, scientists are now able to explain, how…

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    to help, but he is not held back by what the doctor says; he does not give up. He walks into a specialist’s office, and another and another and another, with no luck. He has one more possible option, but it is against the law. He has two choices to treat himself: break the law, or die. Medical marijuana has been illegal since 1970, and the government has kept marijuana a Schedule I drug, defined as a highly illegal drug, with no medical use. The government is wrong. Despite the wishes of the…

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    Cannabis, better known as the slang term marijuana, has been used for medicinal and many industrial uses for over thousand years. But in nineteen thirty-seven, The United States had made cannabis illegal with the passing of the Marijuana Law of Nineteen Thirty-Seven. This law had officially made possession, use, or sale of cannabis a crime. But why exactly was it criminalized? And what exactly is cannabis? (Cannabis, A, Web; How, Did, Web; Block, Bruce, Web) Cannabis is a dioecious and…

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    Over the years the debate over using cannabis and medical marijuana as medicine has been a very controversial topic, people all around the country abuse the use of medical marijuana and partake in recreational use only. Cannabis and medical marijuana use should no longer be legal due to the highly addictive content within the drug, drastic incarceration rate increase, and also fatal incidents due to the recreational use rather than medical use and should be banned within the United States.…

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    Breastfeeding While Smoking Cannabis Each day it is spoken of, that marijuana (Cannabis) should be (made something permitted by law) in the United States. Many always talks about how it is very wrong and confusing to not have the drug (made something authorized by law) in the U.S.. However, after many have read about the effects of using marijuana for recreational use while breastfeeding, (making something permitted by law) such drug is no longer an option. Many effects of participating in such…

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    Hemp Benefits

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    Cannabis, also known as Marijuana, wasn't always illegal in the United States. Marijuana, as well as Hemp were used for many different purposes. Hemp is the male species of the Cannabis plant. Cannabis was known for the miracalous health benefits it inherited. Hemp was known for all the agricultural products it can be refined to. Although, the many benefits the marijuana plant possesses, it is still illegal under federal law to grow cannabis in the United States. The current drug laws are doing…

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    relieve nausea and stimulate their appetite. Other research has also shown that marijuana can slow down the spread of Alzheimer’s disease. Cannabis has also been allowed to treat PTSD in some states which largely helps veterans who are still suffering from their experiences from war. The extracts cannabidiol (CBD) and tetrahydrocannabivarin (THCV) found in cannabis have been valuable in treating seizures, anxiety, psychosis, and addiction. While THC has been found effective in treating multiple…

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    Street pharmacists will no longer make as much benefit since anybody can offer cannabis. With the supply developing, there will be value drops using the market of medications and accordingly, will radically change the cost to end up distinctly nearer to the creation of weed. With the sanctioning of weed all through a few states in the…

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    Even when there is not war, there is a constant battle happening within the United States. Due to different opinions of states and federal law, conflicts about specific subjects, such as the legalization or marijuana, have been debated for years. The plant used to grow what we know as marijuana today, was not used for medicinal reasons or recreational uses in the beginning. The production of the hemp plant was started when the only colony in the US at the time was ordered to grow hemp plants for…

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    There has been much debate on whether or not cannabis actually has any significant value in the medical field. However, there is no arguing that cannabis has been used for centuries to assist in the treatment of a variety of medical conditions. After the plant was banned from public consumption there was little room left to conduct medical studies in order to evaluate the effects of the drug on the brain and body. Some argue that the laws should be loosened in order to allow medicinal studies to…

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