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MarijuanaIts Health Hazards and Therapeutic Potentials
Council on Scientific Affairs
JAMA. 1981;246(16):1823-1827.
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IT IS perhaps ironic that concomitant with emerging therapeutic possibilities for cannabis and its constituents, new evidence has appeared that marijuana is hazardous to health.
On one hand, we are at the threshold of providing symptomatic relief to some patients who suffer extreme nausea from cancer chemotherapy and for whom existing antiemetic agents are ineffective. On the other hand, we face the growing prospect of an appreciable number of marijuana users incurring physiological and psychological impairment.
For healthy users, occasional ingestion of even relatively potent marijuana might not always constitute a health or social hazard, while regular ingestion or multiple drug use might well do so. For persons at high risk, however, the hazards would be great. Although such persons do not constitute the majority of users, the personal and societal implications of their involvement, given current usage patterns, are of a magnitude to warrant concern.
IMPLICATIONS FOR THE USER
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Author Affiliations
From the Division of Scientific Activities, the American Medical Association, Chicago.
Footnotes
This article is based on the following three reports of the Council on Scientific Affairs adopted by the AMA House of Delegates on the dates indicated: Health Aspects of Marijuana Use (December 1977), Marijuana Reexamined: Pulmonary Risks and Therapeutic Potentials (December 1979), and Marijuana in the '80s (December 1980).
Reprint requests to the Division of Scientific Activities, American Medical Association, 535 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL 60610 (Richard J. Jones, MD).
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