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I down. Xt's devastating to my patients.
2 Q Does marijuana improve the quality of life?
3 A In my office, in my experience, yes. It
4 decreases dramat_cally the incidence of vomiting in patient
5 after patient after patient. And i can give you stories;
8 unf_or%unately cannot get patient permission to use names_
7 but over and over again it decreases vomiting and it
8 improves appetite.
9 - Q Doctor, do you think the American Medical
10 Assoclat!on should be the standard for determining what
11 accepted medical use is in the United States?
12 A Not hardly.
13 q Why,
i_ 14 A They're a le,al org,,nizat, cn. , think it
15 would be the same as any organization of any professional
16 group of people trying to say how an office should be run.
17 I don_t think that the American Medical
18 Association has adequate representation, if for no other
19 reason, on their executlve and deo!slon making bodies, of
20 people who are dealing with drugs that cause nausea and
21 vomlt±ngo
22 X think that if you go through the AMA
23 presidents over the last 10 or 15 years, _'m sure you won't
24 find a medical oncologlst among themo I donWt think you_ll
25 _ind one on the board.
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