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Marijuana, the wonder drug, BY Lester Grinspoon The Boston Globe

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CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts: A new study in the journal Neurology is being hailed as unassailable proof that marijuana is a valuable medicine. It is a sad commentary on the state of modern medicine that we still need "proof" of something that medicine has known for 5,000 years. READ WHOLE ARTICLE: http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/01/opinion/edgrinspoon.php

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PETE writes:
I have never personally taken any sort of "Illegal drug," and only under extreme health danger do I take prescribed drugs. Reason: Most of them deliver more suffering that what ails you. All of them are overpriced to gouge those in need and most people I know who take "Legal Drugs" seem to have side effects that require other drugs to ward them off.

I don't like the way American Doctors, hospitals and Legal Drug Dealers drain their patients bank accounts and ignore side-effects, and take perks for prescribing drugs. Who do they THINK they are Arms dealers?

Anyway I saw this article and it made sense. As a matter of fact, you know, as a ruleofthumb, almost anything that is antithetical to what the Right/Neo-Cons-Fascists-Republicans say, seems to to make sense.

Marijuana, the wonder drug
Lester Grinspoon The Boston Globe
Published: March 1, 2007
The study, from the University of California at San Francisco, found that smoked marijuana was effective at relieving the extreme pain of a debilitating condition known as peripheral neuropathy.
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