Glaucoma
14% of all blindness in America is caused by glaucoma, a progressive vision loss disease. Smoking, Inhaling Vapor, or Eating marijuana would benefit 90% of the 2.5 million glaucoma patients in the United States Today. Cannabis is more effective than any other treatment in relieving the intraocular pressure, a symptom of this ailment. Marinol and other synthetics just do not work as good, take too long to work, and have much worse side effects than the mild euphoria of marijuana. Many of these other medicines can even cause death when uses as prescribed. Marijuana has never caused one death in thousands of years of usage.
(Harvard; Hepler and Frank, 1971, UCLA; Medical college of Georgia; University of North Carolina School of Medicine, 1975; Cohen and Stillman, "Therapeutic Potential of Marijuana", UCLA, 1976; National Eye Institute)

Tumors
Preliminary studies done in 1975 at the Medical College of Virginia, indicated that cannabis reduced the size and number of benign and malignant tumors. Upon hearing this news, the government conducted its own studies, which concluded the same thing. The results of these studies were covered up by the government for years. This report "The NTP Technical Report on the Toxicology and Carcinogenesis Studies of 1-Trans-Delta(9)- Tetrahydrocannabinol (CAS No. 1972-08-3) in F344/N Rats and B6C3F(1) Mice (Gavage Studies)" Is Available from NTP Central Data Management, 919/541-1371 Order Report NTP TR 446, NIH Publication No. 94-3362, of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Nausea Relief(Aids, Cancer Therapy, Sea Sickness)
Marijuana is the most beneficial medicine for nausea caused by intense chemotherapy used in treating cancer. It also controls the nausea caused by the AIDS Wasting Syndrom. It even helps control the nausea associated with Sea Sickness. Pharmaceutical nausea control drugs often come in pills which does little good for someone who can't keep food and water down, and they usually take a long time before being effective if ingested. Marijuana can be smoked or even vaporized to reduce health risks associated with smoking and will become effective immediately and will not be thrown back up. It allows cancer and Aids patients to eat and avoid the horrible wasting syndrome which causes them to literally waste away because they cannot eat.

M.S., Epilepsy, Muscle Spasms, Back Pain
Marijuana is the most effective anti-epileptic agent known to man, it even surpasses Dilantin, the most commonly prescribed medicine, without the adverse side effects. Medical World News 1971 Marijuana users experience less severe seizures than those who use dilantin. Smoked or vaporized marijuana has also proven to be effective against the nervous system destroying symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis. Cannabis when smoked, vaporized, or applied as a poultice, or herbal pack, is the best muscle relaxant and anti-spasmatic medicine on earth..

There are many many more uses for marijuana as medicine too many to list here. A good book to read is "The Emperor Wears No Clothes" by Jack Herer.

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