HONORS 232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: National Health And Nutrition Examination Survey, Spasticity, Blind Experiment
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The proposed law would: permit use of marijuana for registered patients with medical conditions including cancer, glaucoma, Arguments in favor of the legalisation of marijuana for medical uses include the assertion that marijuana is a harmless if not bene cial substance that treats symptoms of many serious diseases such as aids, glaucoma, epilepsy, and other chronic pain. In addition to mitigating some of the symptoms of the previously mentioned diseases, marijuana use can also ght wasting diseases as it stimulates appetite in its users. Essentially, the medical bene ts of marijuana use are indisputable . In fact, the university of california has conducted a decade"s worth of randomized, double blind, and placebo controlled tests concluding its ef cacy in treating painful neuropathy. While all this is true, medical marijuana still has a lot of progress to be made in terms of federal law and regulation. The drug enforcement administration (dea) has designated marijuana as the only schedule.
