Dozens of major health organizations have called for legal and safe access to medical marijuana, including, the American College of Physicians, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Nurses Association.
In a White House-commissioned 1999 report, the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine declared, “Nausea, appetite loss, pain and anxiety are all afflictions of wasting and all can be mitigated by marijuana.”
A November 2005 nationwide Gallup poll showed 78 percent of Americans “support making marijuana legally available for doctors to prescribe in order to reduce pain and suffering.”
Physicians are legally allowed to prescribe many drugs that are far more dangerous than marijuana. It makes no sense to prohibit them from including marijuana as a treatment option for their patients.
Candace Crow
Neosho
