To The AIDS Or Cancer Patient, It Is The Plant That Fights Nausea And Appetite L

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Term Paper Title	To The AIDS Or Cancer Patient, It Is The Plant That Fights Nausea And Appetite L
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To the AIDS or cancer patient, it is the plant that fights nausea and appetite loss. To the nutritionist, its seed is
second only to the soybean in nutritional value, and is a source of cooking oil and vitamins. To the paper or cloth
manufacturer, it is the plant that provided much of our paper and clothing for hundreds of years and produces four
times more fiber per acre than trees. To the environmentalist, it is the plant that could greatly slow deforestation,
restore robbed nutrients by other crops, and help prevent erosion. And according to Lonnelle Aikman, "Preliminary
findings show the drug may prove effective against glaucoma and asthma, and control such side nausea in cancer
treatment" (158). Unfortunately, to most people in this country, it is a useless plant when it comes to economic or
medical value. Marijuana should be legalized in the United States. In technical terms, hemp, cannabis, or for the
average American, marijuana, it is used only for recre!
ational purposes. I think marijuana is a plant that could save the world. In this paper I hope to reverse prejudices,
relieve ignorance, and inform people of the known and potential therapeutic uses of this remarkable plant.
As of today the nation stands behind three basic ideas of what to do with marijuana; legalize marijuana, make it
legal only as a prescription drug, or keep it as it is, illegal. People who are pro-marijuana, argue that marijuana is
considerably less harmful than tobacco and alcohol, the most frequently used legal drugs. Furthermore marijuana
has never directly caused anyone's death. People who side with the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes
believe that the ends justify the means. But the people who want to keep it illegal think that the medical uses do not
outweigh the harmful side effects.
Before deciding whether marijuana should be legal or illegal, one needs to know some basic facts. Lester Grinspoon,
M.D. and James B. Bakalar note "most botanists agree that there are three species of marijuana; Cannabis sativa, the
most widespread of the three, is tall, gangly, and loosely branched, growing as high as twenty feet; Cannabis indica
is shorter, about three or four feet in height, pyramidal in shape and densely branched; Cannabis ruderalis is about
two feet high with few or no branches" (1). They also say that "Cannabis has become one of the most widespread
and diversified of plants. It grows as weed and cultivated plant all over the world i...

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