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...causing plaques better than several mainstream drugs.) Other studies have shown THC to be a very effective antinausea treatment for people--cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, for example--for whom conventional medications aren't working. And medical cannabis has shown promise relieving pain in patients with multiple sclerosis and reducing intraocular pressure in glaucoma patients. See Sanjay Gupta's column Fit Nation...
...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...
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...
Decriminalization would also allow ill patients to use marijuana for medical reasons. Marijuana is currently used to 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. While 10 states have moved to legalize medical marijuana, federal law keeps patients in fear of being arrested and prevents many doctors from recommending marijuana to patients who could benefit from it. Medical marijuana would be cheap, versatile and beneficial. Decriminalization will clearly improve the lives of many ill Americans...
...such operations last year, the majority were 65 or older. Most now wear the distinctive-and somewhat unflattering-spectacles. But more than 50,000 of them have no need for special glasses; they have undergone a controversial new procedure-the implanting in the eye of a tiny artificial "intraocular" lens...