> About Medical Marijuana: Marijuana is medicine. It has been used for thousands of years to treat a wide variety of ailments. Marijuana (Cannabis sativa L.) was legal in the United States for all purposes - industrial and recreational, as well as medicinal until 1937. Today, only eight Americans are legally allowed to use marijuana as medicine. NORML is working to restore marijuana's availability as medicine. Medicinal Value Marijuana, in its natural form, is one of …showed first 75 words of 1510 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1510 total…for medical purposes (Proposition 215) gathers enough signatures to be placed on the November 1996 election ballot. In August, both the San Francisco Medical Society and the California Academy of Family Physicians -- representing a combined total of almost 10,000 physicians statewide -- endorse the proposition. The challenge for compassionate Americans is to translate this public support into effective reform. It may not be easy to break the DEA's stranglehold on medicinal marijuana, but it can be done!