AIDS | Chapter 4 Preface
In November 1996, Arizona and California voters approved propositions that legalized the medical use of marijuana. According to proponents of these propositions, medicinal marijuana can effectively relieve some symptoms of AIDS, cancer, and other illnesses.
Indeed, many researchers and physicians maintain that marijuana alleviates the nausea, vomiting, and loss of appetite caused by AIDS and highly toxic drugs such as AZT. According to San Francisco writers Stephen LeBlanc and Jeff Getty, “Marijuana is medically necessary and beneficial for people with AIDS with wasting and nausea.”...
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