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 under medical supervision. Mro Randall has smoked ten marijuana cigarettes a
 day during that period without any evidenceof adverse mental or physical effects
 from it.
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 34. John C. Merritt; M.O., an expect in ophthalmology,: who has
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 treated Robert Randall and others with° mari_uana for glaucoma, a<;cepts mar{juana
 as being safe for use in such treatment.
 35. Deborah B. Goldberg, M.D., formerly a researcher in oncology and
 now a practicing physician, having worked with many cancer patients, observed
 them, and heard many tell of smoking marijuana successful_y to control emesis,
 accepts marijuana as proven to be an extremely safe a. nti-emetic agent. When
 compared with the other, highly to×it"chemical substa, nces routinely prescribed
 to cancer patients, Or_ Goldberg accepts marijuana as clearly safe for use under
 medical supervision° (See finding 17, above.)
 36. Ivan Silverberg, M.Oo, board certified in oncology, and practicin_
 that specialty in the San Francisco area, has accepted marijuana as a safe
 anti-emetic when used under medical supervision. Air, hough i'llegal, it _s
 commonly used by patients in the San Francisco area with the knowledge and
 acquiesence of their doctors who readi_ly accept _t as being safe for such use.
 37. It can be inferred that all of the doctors and other health care
 professionals referred to in the findings in Sections V, VI and VII, above, who
 tolerate or permit patients to self-addminister i11egal marijuana for therapeutic
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 benefit, accept the substance as safe for use under r;_edica_ supervision-.
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