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- <text id=92TT0617>
- <title>
- Mar. 23, 1992: American Notes:Medicine
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Mar. 23, 1992 Clinton vs. Tsongas
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 31
- American Notes
- MEDICINE
- Pulling the Plug on Pot
- </hdr><body>
- <p> For 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 who now receive
- marijuana will continue treatment. The 28 new patients will be
- informed about alternative drug treatments.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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