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...wasn't until the '70s that modern methods were applied to test the medicinal effects of cannabis. As Earleywine recounts, a UCLA study designed to confirm police reports that pot dilates pupils found instead a slight constriction. That's how doctors discovered the drug could help glaucoma sufferers by reducing intraocular pressure. In the years after that discovery, 26 states opened therapeutic research programs...
...GLAUCOMA Marijuana does reduce pressure on the eyeball, about 25%, but the drug isn't always practical as a glaucoma treatment. Many who have the disease are elderly and can't tolerate pot's tendency to raise heart rates...
Among the biggest pro-pot players, medical marijuana was actually kind of a ruse. Sure, there are sick people who really feel they need marijuana to numb pain, relieve the eye pressure of glaucoma, calm muscle spasms or get the munchies to help with AIDS wasting (see following story). But they are not the people who put the debate into high gear. A few years ago, the Drug Policy Alliance--an organization founded by billionaire philanthropist Soros, who wants to legalize marijuana and reform drug laws by replacing jail time with rehab--decided it would fund only those initiatives that...
Medical marijuana has many beneficial effects; it can relieve nausea caused by cancer chemotherapy, increase appetite in AIDS patients, relieve intraocular pressure in glaucoma patients and reduce muscle spasms in multiple sclerosis sufferers. As a prescription drug, marijuana is not only cheap and versatile but also amazingly safe. And it is virtually impossible to overdose on marijuana...
...morning crowd of silver heads nodded in empathy. The miracle drugs that keep his 94-year-old mother healthy, the man said, can cost $700 a month - far more than she can afford on her $42 pension check and $1,200 from Social Security. Those tiny bottles of glaucoma drops alone cost $95 every two weeks. She couldn't pay for them without the $400 he and his brother chip in every month. "If we were passing Medicare today," the man added, "we would never pass it without (including a benefit for) prescription drugs...