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Medical marijuana
Title: Medical marijuana
Category: Social Sciences
Details: Words: 1577 | Pages: 6.7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Medical marijuana
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About Medical Marijuana:
Marijuana is medicine. It has been used for thousands of years to treat a
wide variety of ailments. Marijuana (Cannabis sativa L.) was legal in the
United States for all purposes - industrial and recreational, as well as
medicinal until 1937.
Today, only eight Americans are legally allowed to use marijuana as medicine.
NORML is working to restore marijuana's availability as medicine. Medicinal
Value Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of the …showed first 75 words of 1577 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1577 total…legalize marijuana for medical purposes (Proposition 215) gathers
enough signatures to be placed on the November 1996 election ballot. In August,
both the San Francisco Medical Society and the California Academy of Family
Physicians -- representing a combined total of almost 10,000 physicians
statewide -- endorse the proposition.
The challenge for compassionate Americans is to translate this public
support into effective reform. It may not be easy to break the DEA's
stranglehold on medicinal marijuana, but it can be done!
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