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Medical Uses Of Marijuana
For several decades, researchers have sought to determine whether marijuana has legitimate medical uses, and narcotics control agencies have discouraged them from finding out. Now a new round of federally funded research may provide some answers-or will it? The latest skirmish between scientists and ....
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.... suffering by prescribing marijuana for seriously ill patients," Kassirer wrote, "is misguided, heavyhanded, and inhumane."
In January, Director McCaffrey, finding himself knee-deep in a debate in which he was little qualified to participate, tried to defuse criticism with an announcement that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) would be given $1 million to conduct an 18month review of the current literature on marijuana. Later that month Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), announced that the NIH would conven ....
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