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Review ofMarihuana and Medicine

New England Journal of Medicine, 2000
To the Editor: At the end of his review of Marihuana and Medicine, Benson (Sept. 9 issue)1 states, “The editors' drug-control bias obscures the promise of drug development.” Dr.
G, Nahas, K, Sutin, W M, Bennett
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Marihuana in Science and Medicine

Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, 1985
Passions regarding the use and abuse of marijuana have abated considerably during the past ten years. However, concern regarding marijuana's short-term and long-term adverse effects has persisted in the lay and medical communities. Dr Nahas, the author of this volume, was one of the earliest physician-researchers to emphasize these adverse consequences
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Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 1993
(1993). Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs: Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 269-270.
David E. Presti, Richard Evans Schultes
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Marihuana as Medicine

JAMA, 1995
BETWEEN 1840 and 1900, European and American medical journals published more than 100 articles on the therapeutic use of the drug known then asCannabis indica(or Indian hemp) and now as marihuana. It was recommended as an appetite stimulant, muscle relaxant, analgesic, hypnotic, and anticonvulsant.
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Marihuana: The Forbidden Medicine

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1993
Would regulating and selling marijuana in the same manner as alcohol give suffering patients a uniquely safe means of medicating otherwise poorly controlled medical conditions or provide inappropriately sanctioned access to a physically harmful and addictive drug?
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Marihuana and medicine: the debate persists

Molecular Medicine Today, 1999
Humana Press, 1999. Hardback US$125.00 (xxii + 826 pages)ISBN 0 896 03593 XThe ongoing public debate on the pros and cons of the medical use of marihuana and its possible declassification from the illicit drugs list refuses to cool down. For example, in the recent Israeli national elections, a new party was running on the single ticket of legalizing ...
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Review of Marihuana and Medicine

Journal of Forensic Sciences, 1999
Abstract For many people, marihuana is probably an anecdotal, and illegal, presumed therapy for far-ranging health problems, possibly including: glaucoma, vomiting, nausea, loss of appetite, spasticity and chronic pain of known or idiopathic origin.
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The 1997 Medical Controversy over the Legalization of Marihuana for Medicine

1999
In November of 1997, following a well financed media campaign, two referenda in Arizona and California were approved, giving a legal status to marihuana for medicine. At that occasion, conflicting positions were formulated by two groups of physicians. One group supported the legal use of marihuana for medicine in smoked or orally administered form, the
Jerome P. Kassirer   +4 more
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