Summary: Medical Marijuana

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Another fact that prevent widespread medical marijuana for older people, is insufficient research amount of marijuana long-term effect to elderly people. What is normal marijuana dose for adults patients, might harm or kill older people. As a result, most of the elderly marijuana users who tried to relieve their pain, using it secretly which is very dangerous for them. For some of them it might be last chance to reduce their pain and leave peacefully. In addition, many older users reported that because of marijuana pain relieve effect, they reduced or cancel other harmful or more addictive anesthetics such as morphine and codeine. Unfortunately, I have faced with similar problem in my personal life. When my mother diagnosed last stage of

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