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 entire states rediscovered marijuana's unique medical properties°
 Slcwly, but inexorably_ marijuana again gained acceptance
 ...... T/Iroughout the medical community and society in general. Despite
 the opposition of the United States Goveznmsent and certain
 medical organizations_ caught up in the fear surrounding
 marijuanaSs widespread abuse by recreational users, cancer,
 glaucoma and multiple sclerosis patients_ their doctors and
 political representatives demanded that marijuana be made
 -'_ medically available to them.
 In 1972, the National Organization for the Reform of
 Marijuana Laws (#NORML w) petitioned the [)rug Enforcement
 Administration (_DEA _) to have marijuana reclassified as a
 Schedule II substance under the Comprehensive Drug Abuse
 Prevention and Control Act of 1970. Fourteen years later, public
 hearings were held before DEA. From Now_mber, i987, through
 February, 1988, public hearings were held to determine whether
 the medical community currently believes that marijuana has an
 accepted medical use in treatment. Fifty-eight witnesses,
 representing all facets of the United States medical community,
 offered testimony cn marijuana's medical utility° Many volumes
 ....... of exhibits, consisting of over five thousand pages, were also
 introduced into the record.
 This brief will demonstrate that the medical community
 _....
 overwhelmingly accepts marijuana as medicine in the treatment of
 nausea, resulting from chemotherapy_ and in the treatment of
 glaucoma. Second, although it is a closer question, marijuana
 '_ ..... has gained acceptance in the medical cc_nunity as a means of
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