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    There are over 60 chemicals in marijuana which may havemedical uses. It is relatively easy to extract these into food orbeverages, or into some sort of lotion, using butter, fat, oil, oralcohol.

    One chemical, cannabinol, may be useful to help people whocant sleep. The most well known use of marijuana today is tocontrol nausea and vomiting.

    Marijuana is also useful for fighting two other very serious and

    wide-spread disabilities. These are Glaucoma and Multiplesclerosis. Marijuana can control the eye pressure and keepglaucoma from causing blindness and help stop spasms resultingmultiple sclerosis and may even keep it from getting worse.

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    The Supreme Court accepted the California decision where votersin 1996 adopted marijuana for medical needs.

    On the contrary, the Justice Department says that state laws cantoverride the federal law that bans marijuana because of itspotential for abuse and that Congress will oppose the legalizationof marijuana until the FDA approves of it with valid scientificevidence.

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    2CALIFORNIAPossession: (1) 28.5 grams: $100; no booking if you can show

    officer I.D. and promise to appear in court. (2) 28.5 grams on

    school grounds when school is open: $250; 2nd offense: 10 days;

    $500. (3) Possession for sale: no specified amount: 16 months; 2 -

    3 years probation.

    Cultivation:

    (1) For personal use only: stay of imposition of the conviction, drug

    education, charges dropped. (2) Not for personal use: 0 - 16months; 2 - 3 years probation possible.

    Selling, giving away, importing, or transporting into California: 2 -

    4 years. Possession or cultivation or transportation is legal upon a

    doctor's recommendation or approval.

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    Chronic :

    Midgrain :

    Stress :

    (aka Chron)The strongest of all the weed

    varieties and also the most expensive. Contains many resin

    crystals. Hydro Chronic is even stronger.

    (aka Mids) The second strongest of all the weed

    varieties. May contain a few resin crystals. The most popular of

    all the varieties. High Mids are just stronger Midgrains.

    The weakest and also the most affordable of all

    the weed varieties. Scarcely used due to its weak psychedelic

    affect.

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    Afghan Cannabis - Strongest Variety

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    Bongs :

    Pipes :

    Joints : Marijuana which has had the stems and seedsremoved, which is inside a fold of rice paper and then rolled into

    a cylinder.

    Bongs, or water pipes if you are in a head shop, pass

    the smoke through water to cool and filter it. Grass is put into a

    bowl on the end of a tube whose other end is in a sealed container

    partially filled with water.

    For the most part they are similar to pipes used to

    smoke tobacco but marijuana pipes should be made of heat

    resistant materials such as stone, ivory, metal, glass, and

    occasionally harder woods.

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    Pipes

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    Bongs

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    Brain - Most people believe that marijuana causes the loss ofmemory. But really, there is no permanent memory or braindamage.

    Recent studies on monkeys, using sensitive technology, show

    that there is no permanent memory or brain cell damage done.But marijuana, while under the influence, does have temporaryeffects such as decreased learning efficiency.

    Memory - The effect of marijuana on memory is easiest tonotice. Many inexperienced marijuana users find that they havevery strange, sudden and unexpected memory lapses duringconversations while they are high.

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    Clip from Half Baked thatdepicts youngsters smokingjoints for their first time...

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    Studies of marijuana smoking while driving does showaffected reaction time, but not nearly as much as alcohol.

    The idea that using marijuana will lead you to use heroin or

    speed and enter the drug sub culture is false. In fact, researchers are

    looking into using marijuana to help crackaddicts to quit. InAmsterdam, both marijuana use and heroin use went down after

    marijuana was legalized.

    Since it has been scientifically researched, a symptom

    resembling amotivational syndrome has actually been found to occur

    in adolescent teenagers; on the other hand, adults are not affected.

    The symptoms are not permanent, and motivation returns to normal

    after the smoking stops for several months.

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    Marijuana is less addictive than cigarettes, so smokers

    generally don't chain smoke. The more potent marijuana is, the

    less a smoker will use at a time.

    Tobacco contains nicotine, marijuana doesn't. Nicotine

    hardens the arteries is responsible for heart disease and cancer in

    tobacco and second-hand smokers. Marijuana contains THC, a bronchial dilator, which opens

    up the airways in your lungs and cleans out dirt and dust.

    Nicotine does just the opposite; it makes your lungs constrict

    and makes it harder to cough. Marijuana makes you relax, which improves your health

    and well-being.

    No case of lung cancer resulting form marijuana use alone

    has ever been documented. On the other hand, tobacco causes

    malignant lung cancer.

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    Imprisoning one person for one year costs about $20,000. Inthe Federal Prison System, one fifth of the prisoners are drugoffenders who have done nothing violent. People who actually

    have drug abuse problems need treatment, not confinement.

    LEGALIZE MARIJUANA FOR ALL WHO ARE OF 21 YEARS OR OLDER