ating AIDS is that the treatment is very expensive. There is no known cure yet. It has only been in the last few years that patients have admitted having the disease instead of suffering in silence. Victims like Ryan White gave this disease dignity and people began donating money to find the cure. Previously, AIDS patients were treated with expensive therapy. Now, however, marijuana is used currently on some AIDS patients. Studies of smoked marijuana on healthy volunteers showed that it increased their appetite and they gained weight (Mathre 86). The positive thing is that there aren’t any serious side effects for AIDS patient who smoke marijuana. Its usage isn’t a life-threatening treatment, and it can be quickly reversed when the drug is discontinued.There have been several arguments presented for the use of legalizing marijuana for compassionate usage. States have been placing referendums on the ballots, and the United States Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether marijuana can be distributed for medicinal uses to seriously ill patients, a case that is pitting the federal government against a California cannabis club. The court’s decision to hear the case marked the latest development in a conflict between federal narcotic laws, which prohibit the distribution of marijuana, and a 1996 California voter’s initiative known as Proposition 215. The California initiative allows seriously ill patients to grow and use marijuana for pain relief as long as they have a doctor’s recommendation. Similar measures have been adopted in a number of other states.The high court agreed to hear a U.S. Justice Department appeal of a ruling that would allow marijuana clubs to resume service for patients who can prove that cannabis was a medical necessity. In 1998, the Justice Department won an injunction from U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco prohibiting the Oakland Cannabis Buyers’ Cooperat...
