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Other physicians and patients testified_that these same views
were shared in their local medical communities. These other
physicians include prestigious psychiatrists, pharmacologists and!
general practitioners with extensive experience in their own
fields of practice and first hand experience with cancer patient_
undergoing chemotherapy. I/-_/ In sum_ there is overwhelming
i/_/ (°°°continued)
Clinical Oncology and Radiology at the University of California°
Affidavit of Dr. Ivan Silveberg_ _ 4; Cross-examination of Dro
Ivan Silveberg, Tro 3_77 & 3-78; Dr. Ronald Stephens, a Kansas
oncologist with almost twenty years of experience treating 200 tc_
300 patients a year and Director of Clinical Oncoloqy and Full
Professor at the University of Kansas_ Also involved in the
Southwest Oncology Group designing clinical trials with
chemotherapy agents and with experience in antiemetic research.
Cross-examination of Dr. Ronald Stephens_ Tr. 2_126, 2_127 & 2-
139; Dr John Bickers_ a Louisiana oncologist with more than
twenty years of experience and who treats more than I00 patients
with chemotherapy a month. Also a Full Professor of Medical
Ontology and Hematology at the Louisiana University School of
Medicine in New Orleans andwith experience in antiemetic
research° Cross_examination of Dr. John Bickers, Tr_ 2-92, 2-93
& 2-94; Affidavit of Dr. John Bickers_ _ 3-5_ Dr. Deborah
Goldberg_ a Washington DoCo oncologist with experience in
antiemetic research. Affidavit of Dr. Deborah Goldberg _ 5, 25_
27; Dr. William Regelson_ a Virginia oncologistF Full Professor
at the Medical College of Virginia_ Virginia Commonwealth
University for twenty years, and with extensive experience in
research with anticancer drugs and antiemetics. Cross-
examination of Dr_ William Regelson, Tro i3_!9e 13_20, 13_24, 13 _,
25 &13-26.
3_/ Among the Psychiatrists who have testified are: Dr. Dani_i
Dansak, a New Mexicopsychiatrist_ chief implementor of the New
Mexico study on marijuanaSs effectiveness as an antiemetic.
Cross-examination of Dr° Daniel Dansakp Tro ii=9; Dr. Norman
Zinberg, a general psychiatrist and Professor of Psychiatry at
the Harvard Medical School since 1951_ with a wide experience a_
clinician and researcher in the field of intoxicants and also a
co-author of the Sallan Zinberg study. Affidavit of Dr. Norman
Zinberg, _ l, 6; Cross-examination of D:_. Norman Zinberg, Tr_
11-126; Dr° Tod Mikuriya_ a California P_sychiatrist_ as First
U.S. Director of Marijuana Research at _le National Institute of
Mental Health with extensive studies on cannabis and author of
Marijuana: Medical Pa__9/_ a book on the historical perspective
of marijuana's medical USeo Affidavit of Dro Tod Mikuriya _ I_
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