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  IOM and the Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. 

Posted by FoM on March 16, 1999 at 15:34:40 PT
Smoking Marijuana is Not Medicine 

St. Petersburg, Fla.The battle over ``medical'' marijuana is heating up with a key Institute of Medicine (IOM) report due out of Washington D.C. tomorrow. 
The study was commissioned by Clinton's anti-drug chief, General Barry McCaffrey to review claims that smoking marijuana can be therapeutic in the treatment of AIDS, cancer, glaucoma and other illnesses. The Drug Free America Foundation Inc., based in St. Petersburg, Florida is a non-profit organization committed to educating voters about initiatives to medicalize and legalize Schedule I drugs (including heroin, methamphetamine, marijuana, heroin, LSD, PCP, and over 110 other dangerous substances). The following experts from the Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. are available to comment on this report: Terry Hensley, Executive Director of Drug Free America Foundation. Inc., has extensive experience in law enforcement, public service and drug treatment/prevention. He is a former Chief of Police in Florida and Texas. Mr. Hensley is also a former director of Operation PAR, a large substance abuse treatment and prevention organization based in St. Petersburg, Florida. Calvina Fay, Deputy Executive Director of the Drug Free America Foundation, Inc., is an expert on drugs in the workplace and has written several books, including The Supervisor's Handbook for Preventing Drug Abuse in the Workplace and Starting a Drug-Free Business Initiative. She also writes for several newsletters and periodicals published regionally and nationally. Ms. Fay is also the director of the International Scientific and Medical Forum on Drug Abuse, an association of scientists and physicians dedicated to promoting prevention and treatment of drug abuse and evaluating related scientific studies. Contact:   Drug Free America Foundation, Inc., St. Petersburg   Katherine Ford, 727/893-2616

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