It has been used to ease the pain of many patients afflicted with deadly diseases — from cancer to AIDS. These patients have turned to the substance to help them through the necessities of everyday life, like eating. All of these patients are labeled as registered marijuana users.
In New Jersey, talk show host Montel Williams and the parents of a dead cancer patient urged state senators to make New Jersey the 12th state to enact a medical marijuana law. This new law would allow doctors to prescribe small amounts of marijuana to be used for pain relief.
Some patients say the drug helps them deal with pain better than any other prescription painkiller. So if it does help terminally ill patients, why is the government putting up a fight to try to ban its use?
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