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Argument: The benefits of marijuana for the terminally ill outweigh risks

Issue Report: Medical marijuana dispensaries

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Consumer Reports. Editorial. May, 1997: “Consumer Reports believes that, for patients with advanced AIDS and terminal cancer, the apparent benefits some derive from smoking marijuana outweigh any substantiated or even suspected risks. In the same spirit the FDA uses to hasten the approval of cancer drugs, federal laws should be relaxed in favor of states’ rights to allow physicians to administer marijuana to their patients on a caring and compassionate basis.”[1]