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Marijuana May Yield Medicines, Panel Says!
Posted by FoM on March 30, 1999 at 05:57:53 PT
Until then, what can sick people do?
Source: Washington Post
Marijuana is too dangerous to the lungs to make smoking "grass" a safe long-term treatment for illness--but some of the active ingredients in the weed could sprout into a whole new family of medicines.
Those are among the conclusions of a landmark report issued this month by an expert panel on the medical uses of marijuana, a topic that has pitted patients and pro-legalization activists against the federal government.Marijuana's active ingredients belong to a chemical family called the cannabinoids. In recent years, scientists have found that these chemicals--as well as receptors on cell surfaces that respond to them--are found naturally in the brain, where they probably play a role in memory, control of movement and pain perception.Maybe smoking marijuana might cause some lung problems but so does just breathing the air in most of our cities!
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