Introduction The medicinal use of marijuana is an ongoing controversy and many argue that legalization is a threat to society. Some chronically ill patients depend on the relief from painful symptoms that it provides. Symptoms from cancer, aids, glaucoma, and multimpe sclerosis are just some of the many different common anguishes that patients go through. Even through there conditions these patients are still at risk of arrest and jail to obtain and use their medication. …
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…the medical use of marijuana. a. Tens of thousands of seriously ill Americans who presentlyh use marijuana as a therapeutic agent to alleviate symptoms of cancer, aids, glaucoma, or multimpe sclerosis risk arrest and jail to obtain and use their medication. b. Between 1978-1996, 34 states passed laws recognizing marijuana's therapeutic value. i. Recently, voters in two states Arizona and California passed laws allowing for the medical use of marijuana under physician's supervision. Conclusion In conlclusion,