Throughout agricultural history, the marijuana plant, also known as cannabis or hemp, has been widely used as a source of medicine, fiber, and intoxicants. The earliest known descriptions of cannabis are evident in the folklore and ancient writings of China and India. According to historians, marijuana was used primarily as a ritual intoxicant and later found significance in folk medicine. The practice of smoking marijuana appeared only recently. There has been much literature on the medicinal properties of marijuana that doctors in ancient China and India discovered in their practice. However, it was not until the 1860s that American doctors reported marijuana's success in treating pain, gonorrhea, chronic cough, and many other ailments. This report sparked demand for marijuana-based medications, and various pharmaceutical companies began producing reliable and potent medications from the cannabis plant (Marijuana As Medicine?: The Science Beyond the Controversy, 2000). Widespread use of marijuana continued into the 1960s, and the U.S. government had to take measures to prevent abuse. This was the main purpose of the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. This law classified drugs likely to be abused into three criteria: the drug's potential for abuse, its usefulness as a medicine, and the psychological and physical consequences of its abuse. Marijuana falls under Schedule I, which is the most restrictive. However, this law has been challenged by individual states, and some state substance abuse laws have removed some restrictions on marijuana. Although it is illegal, marijuana continues to be used regularly by millions of Americans for both medical and recreational purposes (Marijuana As Medicine?: The Science Beyond the Controversy, 2000). The fact is that medical marijuana has been incorporated into some medications that doctors prescribe to patients with certain health conditions that, under various state laws, qualify these patients to use medical marijuana. One of these drugs is called Marinol. The drug is produced in pill form and researchers have undertaken studies to reveal various methods of administering the drug. Marinol contains the active ingredient; Synthetic tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) known to relieve vomiting and nausea. It has also found use in improving appetite in HIV/AIDS patients and in the treatment of cancer patients (Carter, Rosenthal, & Gieringer, 2008, p. 32). To justify the Schedule I classification of marijuana, successive U.S. governments have relied on the argument that marijuana has no acceptable medical use..