Marijuana is Medicine!

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• Cannabis can be used to help treat a number of ailments and diseases such as: Arthritis, Asthma, Depression, Glaucoma, chronic pain, head aches, hang-overs, and menstrual cramps.


• Irv Rosenfeld is a 28 year marijuana patient. Marijuana helps relieve the symptoms of a rare bone disorder Rosenfeld suffers from. Multiple congenital cartilaginous exostoses, is the name of the disorder and is marked by bony protrusions in the body’s long bones. Marijuana relaxes Rosenfeld’s muscle tissue so that he can move and function without pain. Marijuana has been the only successful treatment.

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• There are about ten federally recognized medical marijuana patients including Irv Rosenfeld. Individual states have legalized and decriminalized the use of marijuana but the federal government refuses to recognize and reverse it’s own hypocrisy.

• Most like to ignore the fact that THC is fat soluble (so you can take the drug without smoking it) which is often why it is opposed as a medication. 

• Marijuana was used in patented, perfectly legal medicines starting during the 1860’s until 1937 when the first federal laws were enacted against the herb. The medicines were manufacture by all major pharmaceutical companies including Eli Lilly and Merck. Its uses included alleviation from pain, muscle relaxing, and anti-inflammation.


• Study finds that there is no link between marijuana and cancer.5 Study shows that cigarette smokers who also smoke Marijuana are less likely to develop lung cancer.6 Studies find marijuana stops the spread of cancer.

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