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Title:
New England Journal of Medicine Editorial: Federal Foolishness and marijuana
Author:
Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D.
Date:
Jan. 30, 1997
Summary:
Damning column by editor of New England Journal of Medicine
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http://www.nejm.org/content/1997/0336/0005/0366.asp
The advanced stages of many illnesses and their treatments are often accompanied by intractable nausea, vomiting, or pain. Thousands of patients with cancer, AIDS, and other diseases report they have obtained striking relief from these devastating symptoms by smoking marijuana. (1) The alleviation of distress can be so striking that some patients and their families have been willing to risk a jail term to obtain or grow the marijuana . . .

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