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Pro marijuana legalization groups such as the Physician's Association for AIDS Care and the National Lymphoma Foundation argue that marijuana should be legalized in order to treat terminally ill patients. Among them are AIDS victims who find that marijuana stimulates their appetites so they can fight off dangerous weight loss; glaucoma sufferers who have used marijuana said it has prevented them from going blind, and cancer patients say it lessens the severe nausea that often accompanies chemotherapy and sometimes makes lifesaving treatment impossible.
Due to all these lobbying groups, it clearly shows substantial evidence that marijuana can be used as a prescribed drug. Also many advocates who are pro marijuana complain that morphine and cocaine are legal and are very dangerous drugs which brings up the question why not legalize marijuana as a medical drug which is proven to be less dangerous than cocaine and morphine. Lobbying groups in a San Diego, California, council committee......

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