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...taxed and regulated.”Anthony Pettigrew, a spokesman in the Boston office of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), underscored the federal government’s position that marijuana has no medicinal purposes, and that patients can receive similar effects from synthetic drugs such as Marinol.“People who want to smoke pot use medicine as an excuse to smoke pot,” Pettigrew said. “I don’t know a heroin addict that didn’t start by smoking a joint. The DEA has never targeted the sick...
...Then, in 1985, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved dronabinol, an oral form of synthetic THC, to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea. Many doctors believed dronabinol, marketed as Marinol, could provide the benefits of the plant without the impurities. By the mid-'80s, the availability of Marinol and the escalating drug war had killed the state research programs. But Marinol turned out to have shortcomings. Because it enters the blood through the stomach, it doesn't work as fast as smoked marijuana. Because it is essentially pure THC, its users can get too high. "Marinol does tend to knock people...
Such problems appeared in only "a small portion of the patients in our clinical trials," says Dr. Hjalmar Lagast, a vice president for Solvay Pharmaceuticals, which makes Marinol. He notes that the drug comes in three strengths, allowing doctors to pick the right dose. By the early '90s, at the height of the U.S. aids epidemic, many patients so preferred marijuana to Marinol that they would use the street drug regardless of legality or safety. Abrams and a few others began pushing the government to permit new studies of marijuana to find out what these patients were doing to themselves...
...Zimmerman of Californians for Medical Rights, which sponsors the proposition. Many patients say pot eases the nausea of chemotherapy. It may also stimulate the appetite to counter the wasting effects of AIDS and reduce eye pressure caused by glaucoma. As a substitute the Food and Drug Administration has approved Marinol, a synthetic pill version of THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. But patients often report it doesn't alleviate nausea. Daly tried it without success before turning to pot. "If it had worked for me, I wouldn't be doing this," she says...
...future, nutritionists are likely to play an important role on the aids medical team. AIDS, like cancer, often causes people to lose their appetite, which worsens their medical condition. So eating the right foods could be crucial. Some patients may be helped by taking Marinol, a synthetic form of the active ingredient in marijuana, which restores appetite...