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hospital, she was suffering from an acute _panic reaction _.
While the patient found her experience terrifying, she suffered
no long-term mental or physical damage as a result of this
adverse reaction. The most effective antidote proved to be
about four hours of simp!eg person_to_person communication.
48. This one episode stands out in my mind because it w_
highly unusual. The patient's distress, while real, proved to
be short lived. There was a complete absence of any actual
biological or mental damage to the patient. She was nots for
examples hospitalized, but returned home as soon as she
regained her mental balance° It is also difficult to know how
much this woman's fear of further chemotherapy treatments
played into what was clearly an intense anxiety attack.
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Finally, this woman's adverse reaction could have been
prevented had she =eceived marijuana by prescription and been
able to smoke the drug within a medically-supervised setting.
Such a setting would have helped her deal with her fears.
Denied such a settings she was on her owl_ ands rightfully,
terrified about using an unregulated product in an unsupervised
setting°
49. Marijuana is clearly not a suitable therapy for all
cancer patients receiving chemotherapy t:eatmentso _owever_
marijuana is a highly effectlve_ medically "safe _ drug which
can be successfully used by many patients who need relief from
the adverse effects caused by commonly prescribed
chemotherapeutic drugs_
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