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Controlled Substances
Study Rejects Medicinal Marijuana
May 26th, 1997
Smoking marijuana has less medical benefit than taking the drug's active ingredient in its pure form, and neither is of much use when side effects are considered, a new study says. The active ingredient in marijuana, THC, has been shown to be medicinally useful for such things as fighting nausea after chemotherapy and restoring appetite in AIDS patients, according to the study published in the May 14, 1997 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine. But THC is more effective when taken in its pure form, the prescription drug dronabinol, than when smoked, according to Dr. Eric A. Voth and Dr. Richard H. Schwartz, whose conclusions came from analyzing...
Source: Cancer Weekly (1997-05-26)
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