Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base
... supervision." [p. 154] "Terminal cancer patients pose different issues. For those patients ... program, which currently provides marijuana to eight patients nationwide, is an example of an n-of-1 ...
InfoFacts - Marijuana
... the greater the increase (11) . A study comparing 173 cancer patients and 176 healthy individuals produced strong evidence that marijuana smoking doubled or tripled the risk of these cancers. Marijuana ...
- www.drugabuse.gov/Infofax/marijuana.html
- 9/13/2005
Allow Doctors and Patients Greater Freedom
... Recognize the rights of states, doctors and patients to make their own decisions regarding the usefulness of medical marijuana. 99 Cancer and AIDS are horrific diseases that require inordinate ...
- www.csdp.org/edcs/page33.htm
Drug Policy Alliance: Medical Marijuana
... reform. Numerous published studies suggest that marijuana has medical value in treating patients with serious illnesses such as AIDS, glaucoma, cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, and chronic pain ...
- www.drugpolicy.org/marijuana/medical
- 9/13/2005
The Cancer Information Network
... Marijuana Use in Supportive Care for Cancer Patients - Marijuana cigarettes have been used to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea ...
- www.thecancer.info
- 9/13/2005
Peer Reviewed Results of New York State-sponsored Cancer/Marijuana ...
... prospective pilot study of the use, of Inhalation marijuana as an antiemetic for cancer chemotherapy was conducted. Fifty-six patients who had no Improvement with standard antiemetic agents were ...
- www.medmjscience.org/Pages/science/vinciguerra.html
Marijuana Unlikely to Cause Head, Neck, or Lung Cancer
... in the community," he says. Use of all substances -- tobacco, alcohol, and marijuana -- was common among both cancer patients and controls, he says. "We attempted to assess both lifetime and current ...
- my.webmd.com/content/article/23/1728_57309
Factbook: Medical Marijuana
... diminish patients' immune system - an important question when considering marijuana use by AIDS and cancer patients. The report concluded that, "the short-term immunosuppressive effects are not ...
- www.drugwarfacts.org/medicalm.htm
National Cancer Institute - Coping with Cancer
... Time: Support for People with Cancer and the People Who Care About Them Marijuana Use in Supportive Care for Cancer Patients Smoking Cessation and Continued Risk in Cancer Patients (PDQ®) [ patient ] ...
- www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/coping
The Cancer Information Network
... Marijuana Use in Supportive Care for Cancer Patients - Marijuana cigarettes have been used to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea ...