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The document discusses several illnesses that may benefit from treatment with marijuana, including glaucoma, migraines, AIDS/HIV, and cancer. Marijuana can help lower eye pressure in glaucoma patients and relieve pain, nausea, and vomiting associated with migraines. People with HIV/AIDS use marijuana to increase appetite and reduce nausea. Cancer patients may benefit from marijuana to relieve nausea and pain from cancer treatments like chemotherapy and radiation.
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- 1. Illness that may benefit from treatment with Marijuana
- 2. Glaucoma A medical use of marijuana has been to lower intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma (AAO 2003).
- 3. Migraines “Marijuana worked for severe pain, nausea and vomiting and I knew that it also causes vasodilatation …which led me to begin prescribing it for migraines,” stated Dr. Phillip Leveque (Leveque 6-30-08).
- 4. AIDS/HIV People with HIV use marijuana to stimulate appetite and to reduce nausea. It may also help relieve pain. (AIDS.org 2009).
- 5. Marijuana can help relieve nausea and pain from many who suffer these side affects from cancer treatments such as radiation and chemotherapy (NCI 1999). Cancer Patients
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