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The medical community continues to expand our ability to handle life-threatening illnesses and prolong life. With that ability comes an extension of the treatments that patients must undergo. Many patients today refuse medical treatment that may save or prolong their life, out of a desire to avoid the unpleasant side affects associated with the treatment. In recent years it has been discovered that the use of Marijuana alleviates several symptoms associated with cancer and AIDS treatments and disorders. The patients are currently forced to choose between breaking the law to reduce symptoms or suffering life-changing symptoms rather than break the law. The conditions of AIDS and cancer are life threatening and many are not going to survive its attack. Medicinal marijuana should be legalized so that those who already suffer the disadvantage of disease, will not also be forced to suffer treatment symptoms that are easily corrected.

It is interesting that during current history the use of marijuana is even up for debate (Medical Marijuana Legislation Overdue, 45). For many years it was an accepted treatment for the alleviation of symptoms of different disorders. Between 1840 and 1940 there were over 100 papers published in which the effectiveness of marijuana for medical use was praised. Physicians constantly reported success from the use of the drug in treating some disorders (Medical Marijuana Legislation Overdue, 46). According to those who published the papers, marijuana works medicinally by shutting down the nerves that allow pain to be transmitted from the brain to other areas of the body (Medical Marijuana Legislation Overdue, 39). In more recent years many chemotherapy patients have insisted that smoking marijuana relieved the nausea often associated with disease treatments (Medical Marijuana Legislation Overdue, 45). In addition patients with glaucoma have been proven to have pressure on their eyes relieved with the use of marijuana. (Medical Marijuana Legislation Overdue, 45.) In the most recent developments regarding the medicinal use of marijuana it has proven to be a successful appetite stimulant as well as a depression reliever among patients who are fighting AIDS (Medical Marijuana Legislation Overdue, 43.). "In spite of these medical benefits, Congress still refuses to legalize marijuana for medical use, because it is harmful to one 's health when smoked." (Medical Marijuana Legislation Overdue, 45). " This seems like a ridiculous argument, considering that cigarettes are the leading cause of heart disease and lung cancer (Medical...

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