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- From: 34AEJ7D@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu (Bill Gorman)
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- Subject: Medical Marijuana: Is There Light at the End of Bush?
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- Date: 22 Dec 92 16:46:18 GMT
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- Below are two items which may be of interest to anyone dealing with any
- of the several medical problems for which cannibis (marijuana) is said
- to be effective.
-
- W. K. (Bill) Gorman <34aej7d@cmuvm.csv.cmich.edu>
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- |subject: Surgeon Gen Backs Med MJ
- |Date: 20 Dec 92 16:51:00 GMT
- |Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!insthemp Dec 20 08:51:00 1992
- |
- |
- |
- |****FLASH********FLASH*********FLASH********
- |
- |
- |**** NEW SURGEON GENERAL BACKS ****
- |**** MEDICAL MARIJUANA ****
- |
- |DEC 20,1992
- |
- |
- |CNN Headline News reported today that Clinton's Surgeon General appointee
- |has stated that she will back the use of marijuana as a medicine.
- |
- |In a televised quote the New S.G. stated that marijuana was benifical to
- |thse who suffer from glaucoma, aids, and Cancer treatments.
- |
- |-------------------------------------------------------
- |
- |subject: Medicinal marijuana?
- |Date: 20 Dec 92 21:21:36 GMT
- |Sender: session@seq.uncwil.edu (Zack C. Sessions)
- |
- |
- |By Next Surgeon General
- |
- |Masijuana and condoms backed [talk about your misleading headlines!]
- |
- |Little Rock, Ark. -- President-elect Clinton's choice for U.S. surgeon
- |general said Saturday shw will advocate the medicinal use of marijuana,
- |and will support distributing condoms from high-school based health
- |clinics around the country.
- |
- |If physicians feel marijuana "would be beneficial for use by the patient ...
- |it should be available," said Dr. Joycelyn Elders, director of the
- |Arkansas Health Department.
- |
- |Federal law bars the use of marijuana as medicine.
- |
- |Dr. Elders, 59, a Little Rock pediatrician, has battle conservative groups
- |in Arkansas by promoting the distribution of contraceptives at school-based
- |health clinics to combat AIDS and teen-aged pregnancy.
- |
- |[Sunday Star News, Wilmington, NC, Sunday, December 20, 1992]
- |
- |Reproduced without commercial intent
- |under the "fair use" provisions
- |of copyright law.
- |
- |
- |- --
- |Zack Sessions
- |sessions@seq.uncwil.edu
- |University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Alumnus)
- |"Good health is merely the slowest form of dying."
- |
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