differently‚ but she says‚ “Overall‚ though I’ve been lucky so far.” She doesn’t go by the beliefs of the community‚ but rather continually with activities she enjoys. Everyone has their own opinion. Mairs says‚ “I don’t like having MS. I hate it.” Multiple Sclerosis is a chronic‚ typically progressive disease involving damage to the sheaths of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord‚ interrupting the nerves’ signal. She has been limping for ten years now‚ but her family helps her out. Mairs’ opinion about
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the pain and spasm relieving properties of marijuana. The Australian Drug Foundation supports research into medicinal marijuana usage and says some serious and debilitating conditions such as terminal illness‚ neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis‚ muscular dystrophy‚ nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy treatment have been proven to be relieved by use of medical cannabis with low levels of THC. Brisbane Father‚ Adam Koessler was charged at a Brisbane hospital last month for
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conditions such as anorexia. Individuals suffering from conditions such as anorexia‚ and patients suffering from the dangers of chemo therapy report an increase in appetite and a decrease in pain. Patients who have also been diagnosed with MS‚ or multiple sclerosis‚ report when they intake marijuana tremors are reduced to almost none. Another reported benefit of marijuana intake is the ability of THC to reduce stress‚ and anxiety. Stress affects almost every human being. Other prescription drug companies
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Multiple Sclerosis MS s a disease in which the T-Cells of your immune system turn against your body an attack the brain and other healthy tissue. My Mom has MS so I have been hearing about this disease my whole life. Hearing about MS my whole life you would think I would get sick of talking about it‚ but I wanted to this because even if it gets annoying sharing about MS and explaining what it is to my friends‚ it’s important that people know what it is. I know that MS isn’t as bad as Cancer
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prescribe it to patients that suffer from certain medical problems. Although the use of medicinal marijuana is illegal in the United States‚ researchers around the world continue to explore the potential that marijuana has in treating MS (multiple sclerosis)‚ glaucoma‚ AIDS‚ and cancer. In Spain at the Instituto Ramon y Cajal‚ Dr. Fabian Docagne and his associates found that the use of HU210‚ the synthetic cannabinoid‚ reduced nerve fiber damage in mice with an MS- like disease. Savitex‚ a cannabis-derived
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brainwashed people to judge others incorrectly in order to expose the true thoughts of a person living beneath the glamorized world. Mairs strongly feels that "[she has not] lost anything in the course of this calamitous disease" (37)‚ known as Multiple Sclerosis‚ a disease that deteriorates the nerves and interferes with brain and body communication because the immune system has eaten away the protective covering on the nerve cells. To assert her confidence‚ Mairs initiates her essay with a strong
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cancer. So many of those people and families who have had to witness or undergo an assisted suicide would have much regret from this. An example of this when After Rebecca Badger‚ killed herself‚ her daughter Christy discovered the diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis was wrong. The autopsy showed that her mother did not have MS and‚ if she had sought a second opinion instead of assisted suicide‚ might still be alive today. Christy describes the suicide experience and what has followed in one word: "Overwhelming
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The multiple realizability thesis says that there is more than one way to create a specific mental experience. An alternative way to state this is to say that widely different physical systems can have the same mental experience. The implied consequence is that it is the function of the physical system that is causal to the mental experience‚ an idea I will refer to as functionalism. Historically‚ the concept of multiple realizability facilitated the move from identity theory to functionalism. Functionalism
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The Curious Case of Clark’s Brothers by Stuart Greig for RIZE USA Productions Channel 4‚ is about the tragic story of two brothers Michael‚ 42‚ and Matthew‚ 39 year olds of United Kingdom‚ who have developed an age-reversing disease‚ which leaves them behaving like young children. They both had jobs before and were able to have normal relationships until their mannerisms became more and more childlike… just like the film the Curious Case of Benjamin Button that starred Brad Pitt. Their form of the
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hunger. People who also have aids use medicinal marijuana because it helps with nausea. Besides for aids and cancer patients‚ medicinal marijuana helps people who have insomnia because it makes you tired‚ anorexia because it makes you hungry‚ multiple sclerosis because it calms people down‚ or people who choose to induce medicinal marijuana instead of having to take pills due to a tragic incidence that has happened in their life such as a car accident‚ or anything that has made them impaired or in
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