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- From: hempster@crl.com (Alan Silverman)
- Newsgroups: alt.hemp,talk.politics.drugs,ca.politics
- Subject: History of Medical Marijuana
- Message-ID: <3koegn$9u4@crl7.crl.com>
- Date: 22 Mar 95 06:01:59 GMT
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- The History of Medical Marijuana
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- 2727 BC First recorded use of cannabis as medicine in Chinese
- pharmacopoeia. In every part of the world humankind has
- used cannabis for a wide variety of health problems.
-
- 1937 Cannabis withdrawn from the American public against the
- advice of the medical community. Hemp excluded from
- "Class II" drugs (having demonstrated medical value)
- by Nixon administration in 1970. Dispite all evidence
- to the contrary, hemp was retained as Class I by the
- Bush administration in 1989.
-
- 1972 The Nixon-appointed Shafer Commission urged use of
- cannabis be re-legalized, which was not done. Still,
- medical research continued, often with remarkable results.
-
- 1975 FDA establishes Compassionate Use Program for
- medical marijuana.
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- 1988 DEA administrative law Judge Francis Young found
- after thorough hearings that marijuana had clearly
- established medical use and should be reclassified
- as a prescriptive drug.
-
- 1990 The California Drug Advisory Board recommends legal
- cultivation of marijuana.
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- 1991 80% of San Francisco voters vote to legalize medicinal
- use of marijuana.
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- 1992 Feb.- Department of Health & Human Services callously
- cancels the medical marijuana program.
- Aug.- Marin County Board of Supervisors votes to restore
- marijuana as medicine.
- Nov.- Santa Cruz County votes 77% to legalize marijuana
- by subscription.
-
- 1993 April- Senators Mello and Marks sponsor SJR8: Medical
- Marijuana Resolution seeking Schedule II.
- June- Moro Bay Board of Supervisors votes to restore
- marijuana as medicine.
- July- San Luis Obispo City Council votes to restore
- and study marijuana as medicine.
- Aug.- Both Houses of State Legislature pass SJR8;
- Assembly: 47-20; Senate: 23-9 in a bi-partisan vote
- sent to President Clinton.
-
- 1994 Aug.- SB 1364-The Marijuana rescheduling bill passes
- both houses of California State Legislature in a
- bi-partisan vote. This would allow doctors to prescribe.
- Sep.- Governor Wilson vetoes SB 1364, forcing the coalition
- to take its message to the people of California to seek
- justice for their sick and ill.
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- Brought to you by Californians for Compassionate Use
- 3745 17th Street, S.F., CA 94114 ph. (415)864-1961
-
- "Join us in our quest for a more just and compassionate society."
- -Dennis Peron, Citizens for Compassionate Use
-
- "It's criminal to keep this medicine from patients"
- -Joycelyn Elders, former Surgeon General
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- "This medicine works"
- -Dean Adell, M.D., ABC-TV Medical Advisor
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- Please send donations to the address above.
- Dont wait until it's too late. Write that check out
- now and mail it first thing in the morning.
- -alan
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- Alan Silverman Lets keep the treatment of terminal diseases as the
- P.O. Box 14627 sole province of the patient in consultation with a
- Santa Rosa, CA 95472 physician. Please support the Compassionate Use
- hempster@crl.com Medical Marijuana Campaign for the 1996 ballot.
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