6- Your own argument. Did you agree or disagree with the ruling. Provide some authority for your argument.
I Disagree with the ruling, specifically in the case of Ashcroft vs. Raich. According to the CSA, which was written in 1970, It seems obsolete to conclude that Marijuana has no medical purpose according to the CSA(federal level).
I feel that the respondents, within the State level (California) Proposition 215 – Compassionate Use Act, which allows the use of Marijuana for Medical purposes, was totally legal. With a Doctors recommendation (opinion) Marijuana may be used for a given number of symptoms. Since its inception (1996) the goal of prop 215 was to provide a safe and affordable system for the use and distribution of marijuana. Prop 215 enabled the State of California to some degree do its own “research” on Marijuana, as a medicine, as a market. Since 1996, the market for medical marijuana has grown and advanced as a science. Because of its allowed use on a state level, more findings become available publicly.
The respondents were terminally ill and needed Marijuana in order to stay alive and deal with her illness(brain tumor). And I don’t agree that her cultivation or use of Marijuana affected the national market detrimentally to the CSA. I believe that it is merely a formality within the CSA that needs to be amended.
The following study was conducted around 2002.
Summary of 2480 Medical Marijuana Patients
Interviewed by Dr. Tod Mikuriya
Source: Dale Gieringer, "Medical Use of Cannabis in California," in Franjo Grotenhermen, M.D. & Ethan Russo, M.D., ed., Cannabis and Cannabinoids: Pharmacology, Toxicology and Therapeutic Potential, Haworth Press, 2002
Nausea & Appetite Loss
Total: 113 = 4.6%
hepatitis 42
AIDS/HIV 25
cancer* 29
nausea, other 17
* includes chemotherapy patients w/ nausea & others w/ post-operative pain, etc.
Spasms, Convulsions
Total 228 =9.2%
head, brain injury 45
epilepsy 25
spasm 23
quad/paraplegia 21
lower back pain 20
MS 15
colitis 19
pylorospasm 9
post-Polio 7
others 44
(cerebral palsy, Tourette¹s, et al.)
Analgesia / ³Immunomodulatory Anti-Inflammant²
Total 1133 = 45.7%
(A) Migraine and Neuralgias
Subtotal: 179 = 7.2%
migraine 127
neuropathy 22
sinusitis 12
psychogenic pain 5
other pain, neuralgias 13
(B) Arthritis
Subtotal 433 =17.5%
arthritis, post-traumatic 318
arthritis, degenerative 37
fibromyalgia 21
arthropathy 22
myofascial pain 11
rheumatoid arthritis 10
psoriatic arthritis 5
other arthritis 9
(inc. lupus, polyarthritis et al)
(C) Spinal & Skeletal Disorders:
Subtotal 366 =14.8%
lumbosacral back disease 175
disks & vertebra diseases 88
scoliosis 33
spondylolisthesis 12
spinal stenosis 7
spondylosis 6
other spinal 12
sacrum disorder 11
other skeletal 22
(D) Injury, trauma
Subtotal 57 =2.3%
sprain, whiplash 36
carpal tunnel 12
other trauma 9
(E) Gastrointestinal:
Subtotal 68 =2.7%
gastritis 50
peptic ulcer 10
Crohn's Disease 5
other intestinal 3
(F) Other Inflammatory 30 =1.2%
(endometriosis, panniculitis, pruritis et al.)
Mood Disorders
Total 660 = 26.6%
post-traumatic stress disorder 274
depression 162
anxiety disorder 73
dysthymic disorder 46
bipolar disorder 34
schizophrenia 26
attention deficit disorder 15
obsessive compulsive disorder 8
panic disorder 5
other psychiatric 17
Insomnia
Total 71 = 2.9%
Harm Reduction / Substitution
Total: 136 = 5.5%
alcohol dependency 118
opiate dependency 8
others 10
Glaucoma & eye diseases
Total: 24 = 1.0%
glaucoma 15
others 9
(drusen cyst, disease of conjuntiva, et al)
Asthma:
Total 53 =2.1%
Miscellaneous:
Total 62 = 2.5%
Pre-Menstrual Stress 24
Lyme disease 8
hypertension 7
others 23
(tinnitus, Meniere¹s disease, diabetes, chronic fatigue syndrome, et al.) I was personally apart of such market. I was recommended by my doctor and was written a prescription to use marijuana for medical purposes.
http://canorml.org/prop/MMJIndications.htm
www.canorml.org
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