Word: glaucoma
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Pending now in the State Assembly is an important bill, S. 1825, The Medical Reclassification of Marijuana. This legislation would make it possible for patients afflicted with cancer or glaucoma to abtain prescriptions for marijuana. Given the testimony of medical researchers as to the relief this drug can provide for some patients, it seems a shame that those patients are barred from relief on account of our society's general disapprobation of non-prescription, non-medical uses of the drug...
...anesthetic, a ritual potion, a condiment and an intoxicant. As it moved on to India and beyond, it was applied to all manner of miseries: allergies, rheumatism, falling hair, tapeworm, leprosy, gonorrhea, failing memory and dandruff. Today marijuana is being considered as a treatment to reduce eyeball pressure in glaucoma patients and to reduce vomiting by cancer patients receiving drug therapy...
...have a hint--there is something in THC (the active ingredient in marijuana) which alleviates the pressure involved in glaucoma. The problem we must research now is how to use the drug to treat glaucoma without its psychological side effects," Dr. Douglas Gaasterland, a glaucoma specialist at NEI, said yesterday...
...research will involve isolating from the approximately 11 sub-compounds of THC those which affect patients' glaucoma symptoms apart from those which cause more familiar effects...
...Massachussetts, said yesterday that this kind of research will ultimately lead to the decriminalization of marijuana by increasing public awareness that "marijuana is not mystical, will not turn you into a crazed addict, and is indeed good for treating such things as menstrual cramps, chemotherapy side-effects, and glaucoma...