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Drug Enforcement Agency Anti Marijuana
483 wordsThe purpose of this paper is to discuss marijuana and compare both sides of the issue of legalizing marijuana. We have two opposite opinions fighting each other, those who are pro marijuana and those who are anti-marijuana. These two sides have been fighting on this issue for years. Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care argue that marijuana should be legalized in order to treat terminally ill patients. Among them are AIDS victims who find that mariju...
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Should We Use Nutrasweet And Other Artificial Sweeteners
2,046 wordsShould We Use NutraSweet & Other Artificial Sweeteners? Over the years there has been a huge "food fight" concerning the safety of NutraSweet and other artificial sweeteners. In the eyes of the consumer the safety of such products is questionable. In my opinion it isn't safe to use products like this. Though many scientists and other health professionals claim it to be safe I still don't trust these products. In 1981 the little blue packets of NutraSweet appeared on our restaurant tables, and by...
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Central Nervous System Secondary Symptoms
361 wordsI chose the topic of MS because three years ago my mother was diagnosed with this disease. Not a lot of people know very much about MS. MS stands for multiple sclerosis. It is a very disabling disease that I have learned a lot about over the past few years. Multiple sclerosis is a chronic and even sometimes disabling disease of the central nervous system. MS can suddenly attack your body, and often it is misdiagnosed. There are many symptoms to MS. A few initial ones are difficultly walking, abn...
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Time To Die Passive Euthanasia
1,724 wordsMany people confronted with a terminal illness are confused about what they can do as a dying person. This is when euthanasia is often discussed. Deciding that this is the only option is a long drawn out process. Being that a large part of American society is of Christian beliefs, it is necessary to look at morality based on religion. The main pro-suicide argument deals completely within the issue of choice. If life is seen as a covenant, or temporary loan from God, the freedom to choose how tha...
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Alcohol And Tobacco Smoking Marijuana
1,364 wordsShould Marijuana Be Legal By: Colby Gilbert E-mail: Should Marijuana Be Legal This is a topic that has become a bit of concern amongst people in the past few years. Marijuana has been illegal since the early 1900 s, but lately scientists have figured out that there are some uses of marijuana that could benefit people in need, people who are sick of deadly diseases such as aids, multiple sclerosis, and cancer. These are all diseases that are hard for anyone to go through, especially without aid t...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized Legalization Of Marijuana
1,254 wordsThe question of whether to legalize drugs or not is very controversial. Drugs affect so many areas of society. For several decades drugs have been one of the major problems of society. There are two views on the legalization of drugs: some people think that they should be legalized, the other group of people think that they must not be legalized. I support those who refuse legalization of hard drugs. Well, and what about marijuana? Whether you call it hemp, Mary Jane, hash, pot, june, giggle-smo...
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Marijuana Should Be Legalized Marijuana As A Medicine
626 wordsPeople have been using Marijuana as a medicine for thousands of years, beginning in China, India, and the Middle East. The plant's therapeutic potential became known in Western countries during the nineteenth century. From 1840 to 1900, more than a hundred articles on cannabis appeared in European and American medical journals, recommending it as an appetite stimulant, muscle relaxant, painkiller, sedative, and anti-convulsions. The use of Marijuana should be legalized for the benefits of indivi...
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Fatty Acids Nerve Fibers
496 wordsThe full name of ALD is Adrenoleukodystrophy. It is a rare X chromosome sex linked metabolic disorder that is characterized by the loss of myelin on nerve fibers within the brain. Myelin is the fatty covering on the nerve fibers. The disease causes the continued degeneration of the adrenal gland. The basic defect is that the impaired capacity to degrade very long chain fatty acids that are found in the blood plasma and tissues of the body. These fatty acids accumulate in the cerebral white matte...
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Back Of The Head Optic Nerve
1,395 wordsToday, there are many forms of imaging available to the medical profession. Among the more well-known types include x-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, PETscans, and the most groundbreaking, the MRI. One lesser known form of imaging is the technique of evoked potentials. The evoked potential uses stimulation of the body to force activity in the brain. Using electrodes, a clinician can take signals directly from the brain without any intrusive methods. The electrodes remain on the surface of the skin ...
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Spinal Cord Multiple Sclerosis
1,363 words... nt of hearing loss based on the amplitudes of the signals (fifth wave). With this information, physicians can decide how to treat the hearing loss and to what degree. A person who is completely deaf would exhibit flat-line responses. The BAEP can also detect lesions in the auditory cortex or any place in the auditory pathway. These abnormalities could also be attributed to tumors or acoustic neuromas, which are non-cancerous growths on the vestibulocochlear nerve in the brain. The BAEP is es...
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Cancer Chemotherapy Side Effects
788 wordsAccording to a 1988 government survey, marijuana is the third most widely used drug used in the United States, after alcohol and cigarettes. An estimated 66 million people - or one-third of all Americans - have tried marijuana; and roughly 12 million of them are current users. # Marijuana is an illegal drug that is grown throughout the world. It is used for medical treatments, pleasure, and things we use and see today. It also has many side effects, health hazards, and health issues. Marijuana i...
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Is There Any Medical Potential For Marijuana
1,281 words... ea tivity and provides insight. 'It's a source of positive pleasure' (Abel 186). And if that is all the sick patients' experience in the last days of their lives, then so be it. Bibliography Abel, Ernest L. Ph. D. Scientific Study of Marijuana. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976, 177 - 196. Dickinson, Ben. 'What if weed is exactly what you need?' Esquire; Oct. 1997 HYPERLINK ' web ' web (Feb 12, 1999). Forbes, Steve. 'Deadly deceit. ' Forbes; Sep. 8, 1997 HYPERLINK ' web ' web (Feb 12, 1999). Johnso...
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Ethical Challenges Truth Telling And Confidentiality
1,429 wordsEthical challenges: truth-telling and confidentiality During the process of patient and doctor relationship there are many questions and problems, which can and should be solved not from the subjective or suitable point of view, but compulsory from the point of professional ethics. The problems of confidentiality and truth-telling in medicine are of those dilemmas which require an ethical approach to be applied. In one of numerous episodes of ER, nurse Carol Hathaway promises two young patients ...
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Short Term Memory Long Term Effects
940 wordsThe Question we must ask ourselves is Why is a drug that has so many beneficial uses illegal? Is it because it leads to Harder drugs, the health problems, the addictive ness, the short-term memory impairment, the auto accents or is it simply because politicians. We have grown up learning that marijuana is a terrible drug, and that using it gives us brain damage, kill all of our brain cells, and makes us lose our memory. The fact is though, that marijuana does not effect us in any of the ways lis...
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Cannabis Sativa Biomass Fuels
1,171 wordsThe Forbidden Plant? With so many benefits, both industrial and medicinal, how could such a plant be illegal in the United States? Since 1937, the legalization of hemp has been the cause of much debate. However opponents of marijuana legalization have failed to acknowledge the benefits of hemp. These benefits consist of hemp being used to make cloth, fuel, and medicine. Hemp is commonly called cannabis sativa. There are other plants that are called hemp, but cannabis hemp is the most useful of t...
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Effects Of Marijuana Legalizing Marijuana
593 wordsLegalization of Marijuana in the United States Legalizing Marijuana has become a popular issue with many doctors and their patients in the United States. Doctors and many patients have been petitioning to the United States Government to allow the medical use of marijuana, but the outcome has been unsuccessful. Even though Marijuana has possible side effects, it has been very helpful in the medical field with treating ill and sickly patients. Many new and better drugs are needed in todays society...
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Cannabis Sativa Smoking Marijuana
1,424 wordsMarijuana Uncovered The rejection of any source of evidence is always treason to that ultimate rationalism which urges forward science and philosophy alike. This quote, by Alfred North Whitehead, is a perfect representation of what is happening in today s society concerning marijuana. Through scientific research, many pro-marijuana followers are trying to dig up the evidence needed to prove marijuana s abilities to heal and possibly cure a number of diseases. Marijuana, containing sixty known ca...
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Medicinal Marijuana Consumer Reports
1,429 wordsMedical Marijuana Marijuana (cannabis) is a mixture of leaves, stems, and flowering tops of the Indian hemp plant Cannabis sativa. [ 4 ] Marijuana is thought by many to be harmful, but it has been proven in fact to be helpful for some people with certain illnesses. [ 4 ] When I first started looking into medical marijuana as my research subject, I was curious to see what people my age actually thought about marijuana. I asked twenty of my peers, ranging in age from seventeen to twenty-two, What ...
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Bladder Control Problems People With Ms Symptoms
303 wordsDefinition Multiple Sclerosis Multiple Sclerosis Definition MS is characterized by the presence of areas of demyelination T-cell predominant perivascular inflammation in the brain white matter Some axons may be spared from these pathological processes Incidence and Prevalence An estimated 2, 500, 000 people in the world have multiple sclerosis MS is one of the most common diseases of the central nervous system in young adults Diagnosis of MS is generally between 20 and 40 years of age, although ...
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733 wordsPro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physicians Association for AIDS Care, National Lymphoma Foundation argue that marijuana should be legalized in order to treat terminally ill patients. Among them are AIDS victims who find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous emaciation; glaucoma sufferers who have used marijuana said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients for whom it alleviates the severe nausea that is often accompanies chemo...
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