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The Literature of Medicine |15 February 1994

Reviews and Notes: Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine

Eric A. Voth; Daniel Brookoff

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  • St. Francis Chemical Dependency Services, Topeka, KS 66606. University of Tennessee, Memphis, TN 38103.
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Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine
Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar. 184 pages. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press; 1993. $22.50.
Danny was 14 years old in 1971 when he began receiving chemotherapy for acute lymphocytic leukemia. The treatments caused severe nausea and vomiting, which were not alleviated by the standard antiemetics. Danny's father was shocked when his wife suggested that they obtain marijuana for Danny. He dismissed it because it was illegal and because it might embarrass the doctors at the hospital, who had been so remarkable in their commitment to Danny's care. Danny's father recalls one treatment that surprised him. Instead of seeing his wife and son in their usual state of anxiety, he found them completely relaxed, as if they were playing a joke on him. Finally, they let Father in on the secret. On the way to the clinic that morning they had stopped near the high school and Mother had asked one of Danny's friends to get her some marijuana.
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Voth EA, Brookoff D. Reviews and Notes: Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine. Ann Intern Med. ;120:348. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-120-4-199402150-00033

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 1994;120(4):348.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-120-4-199402150-00033

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