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AIDS Treatment Publication Defends Medical Marijuana
January 22, 1998, San Francisco, CA: AIDS Treatment News, a San
Francisco-based bi-monthly medical journal, voiced support for efforts to
allow the use of marijuana as a medicine in its most recent issue.
The following excerpt is taken from the "Comment" section of the January
23 issue.
"The public has strongly supported legitimate medical use of marijuana
for years. Whenever given a chance to vote or express its opinion in
surveys, almost all of the opposition is from government officials and
anti-drug professionals. Meanwhile, the scientific case for medical use
keeps growing stronger. Far more dangerous psychoactive drugs, like
morphine, are successfully allowed in medical use. Somehow marijuana has
become a symbolic or political hard line to be maintained by anti-drug
believers regardless of human cost. The costs will mount until the
public can organize itself to insist that those who urgently need this
medicine can obtain and use it legally."
The issue also featured articles on medical marijuana patient Will
Foster -- an Oklahoma man sentenced in 1997 to serve 93 years in prison
for growing marijuana to treat the inflammation of severe rheumatoid
arthritis -- and the experimental anti-inflammatory drug CT-3 that is
derived from a marijuana metabolite.
For more information, please contact either Paul Armentano or Allen St.
Pierre of The NORML Foundation @ (202) 483-8751.
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