From: [b--ld--p] at [xmission.xmission.com] (Bwaldrop)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs,alt.hemp,alt.politics.libertarian,alt.drugs
Subject: Medicinal Cannabis Policy to be Reviewed
Date: 6 Jan 1994 22:44:06 -0700



The following was transcribed without permission from an article in the
January 4, 1994 Salt Lake Tribune:

US WILL REVIEW BAN ON MEDICINAL MARIJUANA
(Reuter News Service)

WASHINGTON -- The Clinton administration Wednesday agreed to review the
government's current ban on the medicinal use of marijuana for such
conditions as glaucoma and nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy.

"The review of the ban is in keeping with the practice of regularly
reviewing policies and procedures, but does not signal a change in the
current policy, nor imply that current policy will be reversed," said
Philip Lee, head of the US Public Health Service.

Lee said in a statement that the review was being conducted "at the
request of members of Congress".

He said he had not been given the names of the members involved.

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