According to a CNN/Time poll in November of 2002, 80 percent of Americans support the right to use medical marijuana. This right is also endorsed by organizations like the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Public Health Association, and the American Nurses Association.

Why are so many people in favor of legalizing the natural form of cannabis? Because marijuana has been proven to be more effective than Marinol — an oral medication containing marijuana's main ingredient, THC (or delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol for all you science people).

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