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What Marinol is, and why junkies won't be able to get it.
There is colloquial evidence that marijuana is beneficial as an appetite stimulant to patients on hospice dying of AIDS, and as a countermeasure for those with cancer facing radiation sickness from treatment. However, no scientific evidence has emerged to prove this. Medicinal marijuana is therefore used by proper doctors as a last-resort in states where it is legal or semi-legal (with a prescription, honored only by the state), and abused by perfectly healthy people who simply want to get high. Medicinal marijuana, however well-intentioned, will obviously lead to abuses in that system.
There is colloquial evidence that marijuana is beneficial as an appetite stimulant to patients on hospice dying of AIDS, and as a countermeasure for those with cancer facing radiation sickness from treatment. However, no scientific evidence has emerged to prove this. Medicinal marijuana is therefore used by proper doctors as a last-resort in states where it is legal or semi-legal (with a prescription, honored only by the state), and abused by perfectly healthy people who simply want to get high. Medicinal marijuana, however well-intentioned, will obviously lead to abuses in that system.
==Marinol==
Marinol (medically named Dronabinol) is a Schedule III controlled substance, only prescribed in truly remarkable situations. It is essentially Δ-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol isolated into a capsule in accordance with the Single Convention, very similarly in the manner in which morphine is a controlled substance used as a pain-killer by isolating the active chemicals in the opioid plant. Liberals advocating for medicinal marijuana are quickly stifled by the very mention of this drug. It is primarily used as an appetite-stimulant for cancer patients enduring chemotherapy, as well as those diagnosed with terminal AIDS. Doctors are extremely cautious in prescribing Marinol, due to the potential of lawsuits; as such, healthy people looking for a "legal high" will not get it.
==Interesting Facts==
==Interesting Facts==