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...patients with certain chronic or terminal diseases, a marijuana cigarette can blunt the side effects of radical treatments. Advocates of alternative medicine claim, for example, that the drug helps cancer patients endure chemotherapy, comforts AIDS victims and eases eye pressure for those who suffer from glaucoma. Last week, however, the U.S. Public Health Service said it will no longer condone cannabis therapy because of the fear that the practice could harm people with weak immune systems. The Federal Government currently allows 13 people to use the drug legally, and had approved the treatment for 28 others. Under the ruling, those...
...THERAPEUTIC EFFECTS of cannabis have been known since ancient times, but are still not completely understood. What we do understand is that marijuana is effective in treaticng glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, chemotherapy-induced nausea and, now, loss of apetite in cases of AIDS...
Marijuana is useful in treating multiple sclerosis, glaucoma, AIDS, herpes and the side effects associated with chemotherapy, Grinspoon said. However, the FDA currently classifies the drug as a Schedule I drug, which means it can only be used in government experiments, and cannot be prescribed by doctors. Heroin and LSD are also Schedule I drugs...
Medical cannabis, which is legal in 34 states, alleviates symptoms of AIDS, Multiple Sclerosis, and glaucoma, said Grinspoon. He added that the drug helped cancer patients deal with the side effects of chemotherapy...
...study is the most recent in a small line of which have shown that marijuana is widely accepted by members of the medical community as an antidote to chemotherapy, multiple sclerosis, glaucoma and AIDS, among other disorders...