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Excerpts from Marijuana the Forbidden Medicine
Posted by FoM on March 27, 1999 at 07:51:10 PT
It's time to re-schedule!
Source: Marijuana the Forbidden Medicine
Early in 1972, after the death of Sidney Farber, the Harvard children's oncologist for whom the Sidney Farber Cancer Research Center was named, my wife and I were invited to dinner at the home of a fellow Harvard Medical School faculty member. He wanted me to meet Emil Frei, who had arrived from Houston to serve as Dr. Farber's successor. 
At dinner, Dr. Frei told me about an eighteen-year-old Houston man with leukemia who had become more and more resistant to cancer chemotherapy because he could no longer tolerate the nausea and vomiting. His doctors and his family were finding it increasingly difficult to persuade him to take the drug on which his life depended. Why won't they do what is necessary?
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