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One of the current conflicts in the career of medicine is the debate of whether use of marijuana should be allowed to treat patients. Marijuana has been proven to help with epileptic seizures, side effects of chemotherapy in cancer patients, minimize the pain of multiple sclerosis, and can treat inflammatory bowel diseases. However, there is still an ongoing debate between federal and state levels on whether the good effects outweigh the bad. Some causes for this debate is the unclear effects of…

Marijuana, makes a great impact on the world, yet it’s still illegal. The use of medical marijuana should be legalized in all 50 states. Marijuana has been used for many different things and has saved the lives of so many people, if not it has helped ease the pain and improve the quality of life. In many cases people have died because doctors don’t know what’s going on or what to do about the patient. For instance, this case in Baltimore (The Baltimore sun, February 01, 2010), a little boy died…

Weight loss/lack of appetite/anorexia, Chronic pain, Muscle spasms/muscular, dystrophy/multiple sclerosis, Depression, Fatigue, Headaches/migraines, Tourette syndrome, Stress, Inflammation, Epilepsy/seizures, Anxiety, Asthma, Alzheimer's, Arthritis, Glaucoma, Parkinson's, Cancer and…

Cannabis Sativahas, also known as "marijuana," "weed," "reefer," or "Mary Jane" is the most used drug in US. The drug is so popular that 40% of Americans admit that they have tried it at least once. This is because of one of the 400 chemicals found in weed, which are also known as cannabinoids, called delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol AKA THC. This chemical is responsible for the psychoactive effects it has the human mind. It accomplishes this by activating the cannabinoid receptors, CB1 and CB2. The…

Legalizing Marijuana Cannabis is the scientific name of the commonly known drug, Marijuana. It appears naturally in tropical and humid parts of the earth. The use of Cannabis started in China in 2727 B.C. Greeks and Romans were also familiar with Marijuana. During 1545, the use of Cannabis spread to the western hemisphere where the people of Spain imported it to Chile to use it as a fibre. The legalization of Cannabis (Marijuana) has been declared as one of the contentious issues that is…

This can include blindness, astigmatism, nearsightedness, farsightedness, and glaucoma. An ophthalmic nurse can also perform patient assessments before eye surgery. Ophthalmic nurses help in positioning patients for surgery as well as assist in verifying the surgical site for the eye operation. These types of nurses may work in eye…

It is a common knowledge that smoking is both addictive and harmful to the human body (Schoenbaum, 2005). It is a fact that smoking cigarettes is very damaging to the body especially in the respiratory and circulatory system of the body. It is also one of the leading causes of death because of lung cancer and cardio vascular diseases such as heart attacks. Smoking is a habit that often develops during adolescence. Even when teenagers know that smoking is dangerous to their health, they still…

given the alleged prudential reasons in favor of acting immorally, “why be moral is an inevitable question Though” Socrates replies with a series of superficially convincing arguments that cause Thrasymachus to abandon his position, Plato’s brothers, glaucoma and adamantine remain unpersuaded. they restate the chrysanthemum argument…

For years the controversy topic of medical marijuana has caught the attention of many Americans; especially in the last couple of years with the few states that voted to make it legal. The majority of people are blind sighted to the facts that society has shaped into the norm. Many categorize this drug as “bad” or “harmful”. Just like there are pros and cons of every controversial topic, medical marijuana has both valid points across the board. Besides the prevalent fact of this drug being…

For years pharmaceutical companies have put millions of dollars and countless hours of research so that one day there will be cures for cancer, alzheimer’s, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, and other “incurable” diseases. However, recent science claims that using marijuana as a form of medication might be the answer to curing these diseases and disorders. Marijuana has been used for its medicinal properties as far back as 1,550 BCE in Egyptian papyri, ancient India, and ancient Greece (Malerba).…