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AIDS Patient, Doctor Say Marijuana Kept Him Alive!
Posted by FoM on April 08, 1999 at 11:19:38 PT
Source: Herald Link
 Joe Hart's doctor says he should be dead by now.Hart, 50, has been HIV positive for 15 years. He gave up on pharmaceutical drugs two years ago, relying instead on relief from nausea from eight daily puffs on a marijuana cigarette.Day by day, Hart wages a battle against AIDS, and when he has the strength, Florida law.
President and founder of Key West's underground Medical Cannabis Buyers Club, Hart disperses marijuana to AIDS patients, for free or at cost, to help ease their symptoms, he says. He counts 82 people on his membership roster.The club has had a controversial past. In a 1995 act of defiance, the club opened in a storefront across the street from the Monroe County courthouse. The club was shut down swiftly. Hart was arrested after he accepted a package of marijuana from a postal inspector masquerading as a mailman. Hart was charged with marijuana possession.Good article! Click above link for full story!
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