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And continues:
By the end of July 1982 840 marijuana
cigarettes were distributed to 45 patients in
..... 99 treatment episodes. This volume of
activity was similar to that of other states°
New Mexico's program involved 160 patients in
three years° Georgia had 96 patients in its
first year of ope_on_ Michigan enrolled
237 in two yearSo _-_
Based on direct contact with physicians registered to
the program, the Department reports, _[iilt was clear from the
physician interviews that most considered it desirable to have
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access to marijuana cigarettes for use when needed ....
The report offers the following observation about
marijuanats place in antiemetic therapy:
[A]long with its value to those individual
patients whose emesis has been relieved,
marijuana research provided an important
service in the development of new antiemetic
agents .... Because of the effectiveness
of marijuana as a[n] [emetic_ control agent,
it became apparent that emesis was not an
intractable c_@_quence of cancer
chemotherapy_ _i
The New York report, having indicated marijuana's
excellent antiemetic properties_ puzzles over the question of
why more patients and physicians are not enrolled in the state
program.
Physician skepticism. This includes the
perception on the part of physicians that
marijuana is ngimmicky,_ that all antiemetic
d_/gs are ineffective against the most
emetigenic agents .... that emesis is an
inevitable and expected consequence of
232/ i_° at 2°
2J// 7/. at 3.
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