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Doctors group urges easing medical marijuana ban [SACRAMENTO, CALIF]
    #8025512 - 02/15/08 12:32 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5543786.html

A large and respected association of physicians is calling on the federal government to ease its strict ban on marijuana as medicine and hasten research into the drug's therapeutic uses.

The American College of Physicians, a 124,000-member group that is the nation's largest for doctors of internal medicine, contends that the long and rancorous debate over marijuana legalization has obscured good science that has demonstrated the benefits and medicinal promise of cannabis.

In a position paper approved by the college's governing board of regents and posted Thursday on the group's Web site, the ACP calls on the government to drop marijuana from Schedule I, a classification it shares with illegal drugs such as heroin and LSD that are considered to have no medicinal value and a high likelihood of abuse.

The declaration could put pressure on lawmakers and government regulators, who for decades have rejected attempts to reclassify marijuana. Bush administration officials have rebuffed all attempts in Congress, the courts and among law enforcement organizations to legitimize medical marijuana.

A dozen states have legalized medical marijuana, but the federal prohibition has led to an enforcement tug-of-war.

The ACP position paper calls for protection of doctors and patients in states that have adopted medical-marijuana laws.

"We felt the time had come to speak up about this," said Dr. David Dale, the ACP's president. "We'd like to clear up the uncertainty and anxiety of patients and physicians."

Medical-marijuana advocates embraced the paper as a watershed event that could help turn the battle in their favor. Bruce Mirken, a San Francisco spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project, said the ACP position is "an earthquake that's going to rattle the whole medical marijuana debate."


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Re: Doctors group urges easing medical marijuana ban [SACRAMENTO, CALIF] [Re: Bridgeburner]
    #8025529 - 02/15/08 12:36 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

It's about fucking time.


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Re: Doctors group urges easing medical marijuana ban [SACRAMENTO, CALIF] [Re: nk pakelika]
    #8026173 - 02/15/08 08:04 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

Here Here!


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Re: Doctors group urges easing medical marijuana ban [SACRAMENTO, CALIF] [Re: creekfreek]
    #8026234 - 02/15/08 08:38 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

They are just now realizing this?


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Re: Doctors group urges easing medical marijuana ban [SACRAMENTO, CALIF] [Re: todesengel]
    #8026946 - 02/15/08 11:40 AM (15 years, 11 months ago)

;cd nop therau[peutic benefits?


o my

this is really no progress at all. this is just a shameful compromiser, and im disappoited to see half ass hippies being glad abouit it.
sham,e on you who who oooh ooh huuuuh


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