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Should there be a Fed. mandate allowing the terminally ill and those on chemotherapy the limited use of marijuana?


Yes, Cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, even despite the significant advances in cancer treatments made over the past several decades. Many factors contribute to the limited success in fighting cancer. Late diagnosis, often after the cancer has already spread to distant locations, is certainly a major reason why many patients are incurable.
The modern-day approach to cancer treatments is a multidisciplinary one, consisting primarily of surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, in varying combinations. However, any approach is only as good as its components. All three of these cancer treatments function within a limit called the "therapeutic window". This concept refers to the ability of a treatment to kill cancer cells while minimizing the toxicity to healthy, normal cells.
Cancer treatments including surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, proton therapy, complementary medicine, and cutting edge technologies. Complementary and alternative medicine is defined as interventions that are neither taught widely in medical schools, nor traditionally available in US Hospitals. Marijuana should be available as another choice.


i agree that a person should be able to choose to have the marijuana as a treatment if they want, howver, a mandate is unnecessary. what if the person doesn't want it? and your titled is completely misguided. a mandate to have a choice? that's an oxymoron.

medical marijuana should be available to patients suffering from certain diseases (as recognized by a law or state law), however, it should never be mandated.

you can't mandate help for a person. it has to be voluntary.


Sorry Mark, I tried passing some time via head cold and medication. My thoughts r somewhat crossed. I can forfeit and revise question @ later date?
As to your last statement; I think you can, what about the mentally ill, brain damage or the insane? I know this is not the question i presented. Sorry for the mess up..

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