This should??? hurt his approval rating!! Then again, the media is already bought out!! Google Ron Paul Media blackout. It is really happening. This great country is having some scary things happening lately. Scary as fucking hell!!
Tax it!! Legalize it across the country!!
Medical use
Main article:
Medical cannabis

Prescription medical cannabis in the
Netherlands
Cannabis used medically has several well-documented beneficial effects. Among these are: the amelioration of
nausea and
vomiting, stimulation of hunger in
chemotherapy and
AIDS patients, lowered intraocular eye pressure (shown to be effective for treating
glaucoma), as well as general
analgesic effects (pain reliever).
b[›]
Less confirmed individual studies also have been conducted indicating cannabis to be beneficial to a gamut of conditions running from
multiple sclerosis to
depression. Synthesized cannabinoids are also sold as prescription drugs, including Marinol (
dronabinol in the United States and Germany) and Cesamet (
nabilone in Canada, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom).
b[›] In 2011, an oromucosal spray for Multiple Sclerosis patients became licensed for use as a medicine from the European regulatory body, allowing it to be routinely prescribed by doctors.
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Currently, the
U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved smoked cannabis for any condition or disease in the United States, largely because good quality scientific evidence for its use from U.S. studies is lacking.
[19] Regardless, fourteen states have legalized cannabis for medical use.
[20][21] The
United States Supreme Court has ruled in
United States v. Oakland Cannabis Buyers' Coop and
Gonzales v. Raich that it is the federal government that has the right to regulate and criminalize cannabis, even for medical purposes. Canada, Spain,
The Netherlands and Austria have legalized some form of cannabis for medicinal use.
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