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enforcement officers of the fifty states° That they have-all
concluded that glaucoma patients should not be subjected to
arrest and criminaiization for meetinq their legitimate medical
needs underscores the extent to which marijuanaes Schedule i
classification is legally untenable.
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Lec/islatures in the several St=ares have also concluded
marijuana has a place in the medical treatment of glaucomas and
have enacted laws in an effort to protect glaucoma patients and
ophthalmologists from marijuana_s inappropriate classification by
the DEA as a Schedule I drug. At least seventeen states have
passed laws of this type; they include Alabama, Alaska,
California_ Colorado, Louisiana_ Maine_ Michigan, Nevada, New
Jersey, New Mexico_ Oregon, South Carolinas Tennessee, Texas,
Virginia and Washington_
d. Conclusion
In sums the medical community has accepted marijuana as
+ medicine for the treatment of glaucoma° Patients, physicians,
legal organizations and entire states have acknowledged and
accepted marijuana's medical utility and safety in the treatment
_ of this debilitating eye disease. For this reasons marijuana has
satisfied all requirements for reclassification as a Schedule iI
drug under the Controlled Substances Act°
C_ TREATMENT OF SPASTICITX
Marijuanas in addition to its other medical uses, is
: widely accepted as a means of treating spasticity. Since there
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