GLAUCOMA
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GLAUCOMA
Glaucoma
When I started this project, I couldn’t even say or spell glaucoma correctly. I even thought glaucoma was a cancer in your back and not a condition by which the pressure of the fluid in the eye is so abnormally high that it causes damage. There is no symptom glaucoma until you are starting to go blind. You are unable to see this happen to your body because it is one of the five senses. One of the treatments is to smoke marijuana. By smoking marijuana the pressure in the eye will stop for some time. For the time being, it has been proven in some rare cases that smoking marijuana has stopped the pain to the eye. Then, to great disbelief, in some of the rarest of the extreme cases, people have said they have gained some of their eyesight back. The people who started the treatment of smoking marijuana, they did not become drug addicts or move on to other drugs, in fact, most people have never done marijuana before this but only did it to help with the pain they were going through. The treatment of smoking marijuana is not only used to help out glaucoma but also other diseases like the nausea in cancer patients, and even stirs the appetite in AIDS victims. One case of marijuana use in glaucoma is Irvin H. Rosenfield. He smokes up to a dozen joints a day. Although there will always be the government saying no to drugs but they must realize that the drugs help the patients out.