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Marijuana 'on prescription'
04-29-07|Adelaiden Now

MARIJUANA would be prescribed by doctors in South Australia for medicinal purposes under planned legislation.

Democrats MP Sandra Kanck yesterday said a bill was being drafted to prevent people using the drug for medicinal purposes from being fined.
She said some doctors already were advising patients to use marijuana to help manage their pain.

Australian Medical Association state president Chris Cain has supported the move but only if certain conditions are met.

"We don't disagree with the concept of marijuana for medicinal purposes but it needs to be in a standardised form," he said.

But the AMA doesn't support inhaled marijuana.

Anti-drugs MP Ann Bressington said the move sent the wrong message about drug use.

 

Buzzby

Inhaled marijuana is the preferred method if you want to be able to control your dosage precisely. As with the US federal government, they don't want to recognize that you can get the benefits of inhaled marijuana without setting it on fire: vaporization. That would pretty much blow off their objections.

The message: "Drugs are useful in the treatment of medical conditions"?

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