In the 5000 B.C. cannabis was discovered to have medicinal value. Millions of people have used it to relieve the pain of arthritis and rheumatism, to help migraine headaches, to control spasticity from multiple sclerosis and paralysis. Medical researches demonstrate that marijuana arrest the advance of glaucoma, mitigate withdrawal from alcohol and other hard drugs, help overcome insomnia. In the last years cannabis help people with cancer and AIDS, stimulating the appetite and eliminating nausea, stress and pain caused by chemiotherapy and AZT.

Hemp was listed as Class I schedule ("dangerous substance with no medical value") by the Nixon administration in 1970 - despite all evidence to the contrary and against the advise of the medical community.

Until today 34 people obtained the legal medical marijuana for their diseases, but only 10 can take it regularly: on march 1992 the Drug Enforcement Administration closed definitively the Medical Marijuana Program.

In 1991 Dennis Peron and the Medical Marijuana Movement collected more than 16,000 signatures in San Francisco to put on the ballot Proposition P - an initiative to legalize medicinal use of marijuana in the State of California.

On november 79,6% of San Francisco voters (132.646) said YES to Prop P.

On august 25, 1992 the S.F. city council declared "the persecution of patients using medical marijuana last priority for the police officials".

These decisions made a de facto legalization of the medical use of cannabis in the S.F. area, despite the prohibitionist law of the government.

The same initiative will be held in other cities and counties of the US: the goal is the re-listing of hemp as Class II schedule ("drugs having demonstrated medical value").

The International Medical Marijuana Movement demands that doctors and patients could prescribe and receive the best medications available, recognizing officially marijuana as medicine.

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