Pain Management

Obtaining Marijuana Among Pitfalls Produced By Proposition 200

Published in AIDS Weekly, November 18th, 1996

To glaucoma or AIDS sufferers seeking to use marijuana for pain relief, passage of Arizona Proposition 200 came as welcome news.

Now the dilemma: Since there is no legal source of marijuana, filling a prescription isn't as simple as going to the corner drugstore. "There's nothing that's recognized except going to the local specialist, so to speak," said Bill FitzGerald, spokesman for the Maricopa County, Arizona Attorney's Office.

That is just one of several potential pitfalls posed by Arizona's drug-reform initiative. Another is the release of several potentially violent criminals who plea-bargained down to lesser crimes, but who now fall under...

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