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Most patients become ve:_y Ill with nausea and
repeated vomiting and grow increasingly weak and
debilitated as the trea'_ment continues° However___
marljuana_ed!,_ been found to provide
relief from these slde effects. Sixteen states
..... haye _1_y ieglslatlvj_ly__p_gvi_ed for th_e
_ _-_ l_mlted medlcal use of marijuana and twenty one
states in additionto_9_qE.q!9_L are considering_/
such legislatlo_%> ....__s_s addedh_(See
Zxh!bi tl
.... 69. On December 23_ 1979_ the New York Times ran a
front page story on the e_for_s of physicians, patients and their
families to make marijuana available by prescrlp%lon. _n
addition to Georgia _he article mentloned people working
throughout the nation _o allow for seriously ill patients to
obtain marijuana _rom _helr doctors for their medical use. (See
_Iblt)
?0. In January, 1980, Representatlve Smith and
Senator Broun introduced the Georgia 'q_ari_uana-as-Medicine"
bill.
YI. Following Introduction of these bills hearings
were scheduled before appropriate committees in both chambers.
was one of the _ndlv_duals who fast,fled before these committees°
_2. X_ addition to my testimony, the legislators heard
from a number of groups who supported °_he legislation. These
_roups _noludad the Georgia Medical As_oclation and the Georgia
Bureau of _nvemtlgatlon, research oncoi_o_Ists from Emory, Grady
and other medical _nstlt_t_ons, practicln_ physicians and
patients. Dr. Dan N_xon, of Emory, app_ared before the committees
and strongly supported legislative efforts to force the federal
government to meet the medical needs of cancer and glaucoma
patients in Georgia.
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