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State Commission Expands Medical Uses of Marijuana
Posted by FoM on June 27, 2000 at 08:14:23 PT
By Carol M. Ostrom, Seattle Times Staff Reporter 
Source: Seattle Times
The state's medical commission has added diseases that cause severe gastrointestinal symptoms, seizures or muscle spasms to the list of "terminal or debilitating medical conditions" for which marijuana may legally be used under a state law passed by voters in 1998. 
The action by the Medical Quality Assurance Commission added to the list diseases whose symptoms include nausea, vomiting, severe weight loss, cramping or appetite loss, when they are unrelieved by standard treatments or medications. The commission declined to add insomnia and post-traumatic stress disorder, which were requested in a petition filed in January by Dr. Rob Killian, a medical-marijuana advocate and sponsor of the initiative that created the law. But Killian said he was pleased by the commission's action. "They've done more than any other state in the country in listening to patients' needs and allowing truly suffering people to have access to marijuana," he said. The board recently approved the use of marijuana for Crohn's disease, another gastrointestinal disease, and for hepatitis C when the symptoms are debilitating and unrelieved by standard treatments and medications. Oregon's Health Division recently added agitation from Alzheimer's disease to the list of medical conditions covered under that state's Medical Marijuana Act. Alzheimer's is not covered under the Washington law. Published: Tuesday, June 27, 2000Copyright © 2000 The Seattle Times Company Related Articles & Web Site:Washington Citizens For Medical Rights http://www.eventure.com/i692/Waiting for Medical Marijuanahttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread6077.shtmlState Health Agency Lacks Legal Source for Marijuana Testhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread5994.shtmlExperimental Federal Program Tries To Measure Need http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread5765.shtmlMedical Marijuana Users Wait to Exhalehttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread5764.shtml Washington Marijuana Law Bogged Down http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread6037.shtml 
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