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Article: A world view of marijuana. (Book Corners).
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- Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2002 The Townsend Letter Group. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Marijuana Medicine
by Christian Ratsch
Healing Arts Press, One Park Street, Rochester, Vermont 05767 USA, www.InnerTraditions.com Softbound, ISBN 0-89281-933-2, c. 1998, 204 pp, $24.95
Until the passage of the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act, physicians in the United States had prescribed the botanical freely. Then, the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 categorized marijuana (a.k.a. cannabis and/or hemp) as a Schedule 1 substance, too dangerous to be used even for medicinal purposes. Similar laws in other nations have also banned marijuana; but in Germany in 1992, a judge challenged his country's ban when he suspended a trial ...
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Article: British firm to market marijuana medicine.
United Press International;
February 2, 2004 ;
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...LOS ANGELES, Feb 01, 2004 (United Press International via COMTEX) California officials are watching a British firm that is preparing to market a new pain medicine that uses marijuana. Among Californians demanding the yet-to-be-approved medicine Sativex, developed by Britain's GW Pharmaceuticals, is
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