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significant, dose-related, clinically significant reduction in
intraocular pressures." To quote Dr. Robert _epler's
conclusion as stated in the 1976 edition of "Marijuana &
Bealth: _A Report to Congress_ _
61. My own research, cited by }_eith Green, also
demonstrates that marijuana affords glaucoma patients with
significant reductions in their ocular tensions.
62. Since the criteria of reflectiveness" in a
glaucoma control drug is the drug's ability to produce a
significant reduction in intraocular pressures_ marijuana must
be considered an effective glaucoma control drug. To attempt
to review marijuana's utility as a glaucoma control drug using
,' novel_ untried theories which stray beyond the "traditional _
-_i_ leng accepted linkage between intraocular pressure reduction
and effectiveness is not merely intellect_ally dishonest_ but
it is scientifically questionable. Such an approach would call
into question the reflectiveness _ of all ,glaucoma drugs cur-
rently deemed to be _effective _ based solely on their ability
to do what marijuana does; lower intraocular pressures° In
shorts the vague alternative criteria for defining "effec-
tiveness _ advanced by several government witnesses would, if
accepted by this court, lead to chaos, and would call into
question th6 _effectiveness" of all of the medicines now
routinely used in glaucoma therapy for their intraocular
pressure lowering properties. Government witnesses do not seem
to understand that'playing fast and loose with long established
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