Com Hosted MarijuanaNews. Com Supported MarijuanaNews. There are at least two possible reasons for this. Doctors can be deprived of their right to prescribe legal pain relievers.
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372 was introduced in the House of Representatives on February 26, 1998. This paper is a rebuttal of H. Resolution. 372 and an argument that marijuana has several extensively documented applications and a high safety margin with medically supervised use. In addition it refutes the rhetorical tool of of connecting the issues of substance use and abuse to medically supervised use as inconsistent with the accepted protocols which govern the medical research process. It questions the underlying legal, moral and political priorities which criminalize sick, suffering and dying people for their medically supervised use of marijuana as fundamentally inconsistent with basic tenets of nursing practice which strive to care for and support ill people with compassion.