Essays Tagged: "Glaucoma"
Marijuana: A Horticultural Revolution, A Medical and Legal Battle
cal valuein treatment and have ruled that marijuana can be a drug of "necessity" in the treatmentof glaucoma, cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis. From the collection of informationwe now have on mar ... ancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, reduces the pain of AIDS patientsand lowers eye pressure in glaucoma sufferers. Cancer and AIDS patients often lose a lotof weight, either due directly to their ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Marajuana
l Americans who presently use marijuanaas a therapeutic agent to alleviate symptoms ofcancer, AIDS, glaucoma, or multiple sclerosis riskarrest and jail to obtain and use their medication.Between 1978 ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Legalization of Marijuana
fit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.(B) To ensur ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Should Medical Marijuana be legalized?
fit from the use of marijuana in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief. (B) To ensu ... and potentially inexpensive medicine. Patients find marijuana helpful for nausea and vomiting, for glaucoma and as an appetite stimulant. It is used for the relief of muscle spasms and seizures, as w ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Medical marijuana
omiting, and loss of appetite caused by the disease itself and by treatmentwith AZT and other drugs.Glaucoma: Marijuana, by reducing intraocular pressure, alleviates thepain and slows or halts the pro ... y reducing intraocular pressure, alleviates thepain and slows or halts the progress of the disease. Glaucoma, which damagesvision by gradually increasing eye pressure over time, is the leading cause o ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Short paper on preventative maintainence of Diabetes Mellitus.
properly themselves.Diabetic neuropathy also affects the eyes, retinopathy, increasing the risk for glaucoma and blindness. Eye exams every six months to one year will be needed. The eyes must be chec ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
What is Glaucoma?
What is Glaucoma?Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of permanent blindness around the world that is preve ... ed is permanent and cannot be reversed. With the correct eye care there will be little vision loss. Glaucoma is caused by the pressure inside the eye being elevated causing lack of blood flow to the o ... lack of blood flow to the optic nerve, thereby causing the vision loss. There are two main types of glaucoma. There is chronic simple (open-angle) and acute (angle-closure). In chronic simple, the pre ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases
Drug Abuse: Should Marijuana be legalized?
ugh possessing a medicinal value and therapeutic uses for body ailments such as multiple sclerosis, glaucoma and anxiety, exaggerated marijuana abuse is harmful to the body and legalizing the drug wou ... elps to control the occurrence of these seizures . Also, marijuana is believed to provide relief to glaucoma patients by reducing ocular pressure which can cause damage to the eye as well as effective ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Medicinal Marijuana essay, and sample expiriment using three groups.
ression, arthritis, strained aching muscles, pain and mental relief from suffering cancer patients, glaucoma, and the list goes on and on. There are more uses that the doctors come up with everyday. T ... es that the doctors come up with everyday. The specific case I chose to do my study based around is glaucoma.Most all of pro-medicinal marijuana doctors boast that marijuana used as a medicine can hel ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Legalizing Medicinal Marijuana
ose laws "establish controlled substances therapeutic research programs for patients suffering from glaucoma, cancer, and other life or sense-threatening diseases (CNN.com)" have already taken the rig ... marijuana because it may prevent epileptic seizures in some patients. Finally, those suffering from glaucoma find it helpful because when smoked, Marijuana reduces pressure within the eye.Doctors toda ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Marijuana in Canada should not be legalized
reason to try it out. The major health risks include the development of diseases like aids, cancer, glaucoma and many other health problems. Marijuana should not be legalized in Canada as it's use has ... it's use has led to increased number of unhealthy Canadians causing diseases like AIDS, Cancer and Glaucoma by exposing them to higher health risks that go along with the use of this drug.Cancer: is ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Marijuana Legally Introduced To Society
ng: stress relief, pain relief for migrains, helps people with cancer and anorexia to eat, it eases glaucoma and it also helps people with nervous problems to calm down. For medicinal purposes, mariju ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
The legal of Marihuna
marijuana has assisted patients suffering from the symptoms of cancer, AIDS, multiple sclerosis and glaucoma can no longer be denied. Some patients claim that the therapeutic uses of medical marijuana ...
Subjects: Businesss Research Papers
Medicinal Marijuana
Multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, cachexia, and spinal cord injuries are all conditionswhose symptoms are proven to be posit ... an a placebo. Marijuana has also been shown to lower intraocular pressure inpatients suffering from glaucoma as much as 27% more than a placebo in a 30 minuteperiod. By relieving the intraocular press ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine
Medicinal Marijuana Helps
cer patients with pain during treatment, helps AIDS patients regain their appetites, and those with glaucoma have shown improvement in their condition.You may or may not know the pain that a patient g ... therefore, someone who has lost his or her appetite this side effect would be medically beneficial."Glaucoma is a disease of the eye marked by increased pressure within the eyeball that can result in ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays
Legalizing Marijuana.
ously ill Americans who use marijuana as a therapeutic agent to alleviate symptoms of cancer, AIDS, glaucoma, or multiple sclerosis risk arrest and jail to obtain and use their medication. I wish poli ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Medicalweed
more to it. Marijuana or cannabis can be used for medical purposes,for patients with the HIV virus, glaucoma, epilepsy, and many other illness or painsomeone might suffer from. It should be made clear ... gainst relieving pain ishighly creditable. "One of the health issues which marijuana is used for is glaucoma.Being the second most common eye disease, after cataracts, it causes permanent loss ofvisio ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Marijuana: Effects on adolescents + survey
s are also more likely to get lung infections like pneumonia. Marijuana has been proved to clear up glaucoma for a short period of time. The THC has been used to treat wasting syndrome in AIDS patient ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs
Legalizaton Of Marajuana Research Paper
rijuana would benefit the person's health in the treatment of cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, glaucoma, or any other illness that marijuana brings relief to (http://www.Rxmarihana.com). That mea ... poorly written out, without restricting marijuana use to serious illnesses such as AIDS, cancer, or glaucoma. It was also pointed out that no written prescription or medical examination would be requi ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol
Medical Marijuana
survival. Although studies have shown, but not concluded, use of the drug may lower eye pressure in glaucoma patients, control spasms due to multiple sclerosis, and relieve and chronic pain. (DeNoon) ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol