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How Medical Marijuana Helps AIDS Patients

 Medical Marijuana is very popular among patients with AIDS, with one of the main reasons being that it is able to soothe a variety of the disease symptoms. It can soothe pain, stimulate appetite, and calm nausea. HIV, or human immunodeficiency virus, is a disease that attacks the immune system. The disease can lead to painful nerve damage, depression, anxiety, opportunistic infections, nausea, vomiting, and significant weight loss. Recent combination medical therapy has advanced to the point where AIDS patients live longer and the disease is more of a chronic disorder than a rapidly fatal one. This is part of the wonders of modern medicine, although the real wonder will be when the disease is simply eradicated! These medications have two effects: One is that they give patients hope, the second is they make patients sick. Nausea, diarrhea, fatigue, vomiting, and appetite loss turn into a way of life that simply has to be tolerated. Or does it? Antiviral medications, called protease inh