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Medical Marijuana!
Posted by FoM on March 26, 1999 at 11:33:59 PT
It is time now!
Source: Stop the Drug War
The rights and medical needs of patients have been sacrificed to the government's failing war on drugs. Patients suffering from AIDS, cancer, glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and other serious conditions often find that marijuana is the most, sometimes only effective treatment; yet those who do use marijuana as medicine are subject to arrest, incarceration, seizure of assets and other criminal sanctions. 
Many more never find out that marijuana could have helped them, and suffer needlessly as a result. Currently, only eight patients in the U.S. receive legal medical marijuana from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), as part of a defunct federal program. NIDA holds a monopoly on legally available research marijuana, but has refused to dispense it for medical research, except when the research itself is federally funded -- and only one such study has been approved during the past two decades. Don't you think it's time for the government to help more then 8 patients since smoked marijuana is the only choice sick people have until they can duplicate everything that is in Cannabis in a better delivery system?
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