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  Medical Marijuana!
Posted by FoM on April 03, 1999 at 07:01:54 PT
Source: Washinton Post
THE REPORT by the Institute of Medicine on medical uses of marijuana provides guidance on a subject that has been politicized beyond both its actual medical promise and its actual law enforcement implications. The report has been spun as a victory by all sides, but its contents are neither a ringing endorsement nor an outright rejection of marijuana's therapeutic qualities.
The flip side, as the institute's report suggests, is that the class of patients seems to be limited, generally, to terminally ill people suffering from chronic pain, nausea from chemotherapy, or appetite suppression from AIDS or advanced cancers who don't respond to standard therapies but do respond to marijuana. It seems wrong, in the name of fighting the war on drugs, to withhold from these patients a drug, however imperfect, that offers relief. We know there are problems, but why won't they at least re-classify marijuana to Schedule II, because it is know that it has medicinal properties since the IOM Report?
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