The Need To Legalize Pot

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The Need To Legalize Pot

The Need To Legalize Pot

     Just in, California has become the first state to legalize pot!
Unfortunately, for all you proud owners of a two-foot-bong or a three-inch bowl,
you must have a prescription from a medical doctor before you light up.  Perhaps
it's only a crack in the ice, but it is a start to a long-awaited, controversial
issue that needs to be touched upon again.
     In the fall of 1996, Proposition 215 was passed in California,
legalizing the medical use of marijuana.  Even though the majority (56%) voted
to pass 215, opponents plan to continue to fight the measure.  It was also so in
Arizona, where Proposition 200, the Drug Medicalization, Prevention, and Control
Act, won 65% of the vote.  It says that Arizona's doctors can prescribe
marijuana, heroin, and LSD for patients when there is "medicinal value"
(California 62).  The passing of these two propositions has also helped the
release of prisoners convicted of drug possession (---).  With jail capacity
already overflowing, if you were to lock up a dealer, you therefore create a job
opening.
     Bob Randall, president of the Alliance for the Cannabis Therapeutics, a
Washington-based patients' right group, says as many as five-million sick
Americans might benefit from the legal access to marijuana.  Marijuana has been
found to: relieve nausea and stimulate appetite in people with cancer and AIDS,
control muscle spasms among people with multiple sclerosis and other
neurological disorder, reduce eye pressure among people with glaucoma, and some
say it also controls seizures, eases chronic pain, and relieves depression.  Dr.
Ernest Rosenbaum, a San Francisco cancer specialist, says he and many doctors
quietly recommend marijuana to patients who didn't respond to other medications.
A 1991 Harvard study found that about 40 % of cancer specialists surveyed had
recommended marijuana to relieve chemotherapy nausea, and about 48% said they
would prescribe the drug if it were made legal.
     An article was written in the October, 28, 1996 Time issue about a
former police commissioner, Jo Daly, who was diagnosed with colon cancer.  Jo
started chemotherapy for her cancer, but the side effects included "nuclear
implosion."  Then came a burning pain under the nails of her toes and fingers.
The good news was that she eventually found relief.  The bad news was that it
came from marijuana.  Daly tried Marinol, a substitute the FDA approved as a
synthetic version of THC (marijuana's psychoacti...

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