Medicinal Marijuana

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General Purpose: The Medicinal Use of Marijuana
 
Specific Purpose: Increase Your Awareness about the Medicinal Use of Marijuana
 
Thesis Statement: Marijuana has many possible medical uses. Positive effects are claimed for ailments such as cancer, AIDS, and glaucoma. AIDS can cause a loss of appetite known as "wasting syndrome", which can lead to drastic weight loss and weakness. Chemotherapy used in the treatment of cancer causes nausea resulting in an inability to keep down food. Marijuana's healing nature for these two illnesses is a result of its ability to increase a person's appetite as well as relieving nausea, allowing a patient to regain weight. Marijuana reportedly helps glaucoma patients by reducing intraocular pressure that can cause damage to the eye.
 
MEDICAL MARIJUANA
 
Attention-Getter: Marijuana How It Can Cure!
 
Credibility Statement: Should marijuana be a medical option? http://medicalmarijuana.procon.org/viewanswers.asp?questionID=001325
 
 
  I.                  There are a great number of reasons that people have for wanting to legalize all aspects of marijuana, I will focus solely on the legalization for sick people's medically supervised use. The most common and most obvious reason for legalizing the herb for sick people is that it makes some of them feel better. Numerous books and articles have been written by and about people with various ailments that have only been treatable with marijuana. The main point behind these writings is that if a person's doctor believes that marijuana will help them, and they are not opposed to taking it themselves, a patient should not be denied the potential benefit derived from ingesting cannabis or any of its derivatives.
        A.    Illegalization of Marijuana
1.      Though there has been a remarkable public outcry for the legalization of medicinal marijuana, there has been an almost equal uprising of people that would like marijuana's legal status to...