Essays on THC

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After 47 years in business, Dallas-based Tenet Healthcare Corp. (THC) has grown into a network of 79 hospitals, 20 short-stay surgical hospitals, and more than 470 outpatient centers in addition to nine facilities in the United Kingdom. As of 2015, it has 130,000 employees in its healthcare network. Three years ago, it acquired for $4.3 billion the Vanguard Health Systems (VHS) (Jacobson, 2013), which Charles Martin Jr. founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1997 and has a network of more than 26 healthcare institutions, which are a combination of acute care and specialty hospitals in five states: Illinois (Chicago); ...

I. Introduction The cultivation and use of Marijuana dates back to ancient times when man cultivated this cannabis plant for its medicinal benefits. Archaeological research revealed Cannabis-based textiles which has been around 7,000 BC have been found in the northern part of China. Scientific testing leads to the conclusion that the most probably, the “ancient culture cultivated cannabis for pharmaceutical, psychoactive, and divinatory purposes” (Armentano, 2). In the present-day, the medicinal value of marijuana has been recognized by many medical practitioners; for instance, this plant has been proven as an effective way to alleviate some symptoms associated with ...

Policy Positions Paper: Use of Medical Marijuana in Georgia

The use of marijuana (Cannabis sativa) can be traced back more than 5000 years ago related to medical, recreational, and spiritual reasons (Bostwick, 2012). The United States Pharmacopeia has included it since 1850’s, and until the 1930’s physicians provided prescriptions for it for a number of physical complaints (Narcanon International, 2016). In 1970, the United States Congress determined it had no valid therapeutic value and categorized it as a Schedule I illegal substance. However, a number of sources have stated that marijuana has no addictive properties (Samsha, 2016). The National Institute on Drug Abuse state this is ...

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Should a drug that has been considered illegal for many years due to its negative effects be legalized? This is the question that so many American citizens and legislators seek to answer when discussing marijuana. Cannabis, which is marijuana’s botanical name, was first obtained from the Indian hemp plant over 2000 years ago. Although the drug has more than 400 chemicals, THC is the main ingredient that alters the mind. The level of THC in hemp plant determines how strong the drug would be. As a result, growers of the hemp plant adopted artificial techniques to increase the ...

The legalization of marijuana was only brought to effect after the drug had been tested to prove it had positive effects on a user’s health. There has been much debate about the drug’s effects on the brain, psychological health of a person and the benefits of marijuana in treating illnesses. Many people use marijuana mainly for recreational purposes. However at times, they are in pain or are suffering from an illness because of which they take the drug in order to alleviate some pain. But if the drug helps them then it is beneficial for their health, ...

INTRODUCTION

Cannabis Sativa was one of the most used plants up until its ban in the 1970’s in the United States. However, California passed the use of the plant for medicinal purposes by a wide margin in the Proposition 215 of November 1996 (Kramer). There are proponents and opponents to the use of marijuana in any situation, and both sides bear strong views to support their case. In California for instance, it is permitted by law for ill patients to cultivate and use marijuana. The law stipulates that they should have a medical recommendation from a physician. The use ...

Marijuana is an addictive and powerful drug that has various effects on the user’s body. These effects include various effects on the brain, effects on the body and mental or psychological effects as well. Marijuana is harmful because of its extracts which are potentially dangerous especially when marijuana is consumed in large amounts. Marijuana use has several effects on the human brain. These are categorized as short term and long term effects of marijuana. Smoking marijuana causes the THC in the drug to pass through the lungs into the blood circulatory system. The chemical reaches the brain through ...

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Nowadays, the struggle against the use, dissemination, and production of drugs is quite severe. Despite the fact that so-called War on Drugs has been launched in 1971, it seems like there was no serious developments in this direction. Since the development of this campaign, loads of taxpayers’ funds were invested to this fight, a lot of people were detained, and tons of substances confiscated. The War led to the militarization of the police and involvement of the military into the raids on multiple occasions. One of the main issues here is the focus of the authorities on a specific ...

Why marijuana should be used for treatment in cancer patients to relieve nausea and vomiting, stimulate appetite and discuss their side effects. For many years, marijuana has been used to treat various ailments. During the 19th and 20th centuries, many journals were published on the medicinal benefits of marijuana. However, its use started declining in the early twentieth century as a result of development of alternative therapies and also due to legislation that put it under controlled substances. Nevertheless, medicinal marijuana is increasingly becoming advocated to help in managing chronic diseases, especially cancer. There are people with cancer ...

The exploit of cannabis as well as its ingredient cannabinoids such as Tetrahydrocannabinol (9-THC) as a physician-recommended form of medicine or herbal therapy is what is known as medical Marijuana (Marmora, 1998). Even though the degree of the medicinal value of cannabis has been debated against widely, it does have numerous well-supported favourable outcomes. Amid these are the reduction of nausea and vomiting and encouragement of hunger in chemotherapy patients. Its efficiency as a pain reliever has also been proposed to be true. Conversely, Marijuana is an illegal drug so this brings about the question of why marijuana should be used ...

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The debate for and against the legalization of Marijuana has been one of the most controversial issue in politics in the recent past. Nonetheless, it can be noted that the use of marijuana for medical purposes has existed for thousands of years in many countries (Randall 34). However, in many of these countries, the use of marijuana has been illegal and it can be noted that the substance has been decriminalized in most of them. Nevertheless, in the recent past, some of the countries have started to come up with various legislation that are permitting the usage of marijuana ...