Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base (1999)

"Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base"

Janet E. Joy, Stanley J. Watson, Jr., and John A. Benson, Jr., Editors

Division of Neuroscience and Behavioral Health

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Investigators from the nonpartisan Institute of Medicine (IOM) released their findings, "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base," on March 17, 1999. The White House Office of National Drug Control commissioned the 267-page report shortly after voters in California passed the Compassionate Use Act of 1996, which legalized the medical use of cannabis under state law.

The IOM report affirmed that marijuana and its constituents possessed numerous therapeutic properties, including the ability to control pain, nausea, and anxiety, and to stimulate appetite.

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