About this title: For many centuries patients and physicians have found marihuana to be a highly effective medicine. This drug, outlawed for more than 50 years in the United States, provides relief from nausea, pain and muscle spasms, and alleviates symptoms of glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, AIDS, migraine, and other debilitating ailments. Yet the US government grants only 12 patients in the entire country the right to use marihuana medically, and permits even that with great reluctance. In this book, Dr. Lester Grinspoon and James B. Bakalar draw on 20 years of research to describe the medical benefits of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780300054354ISBN:0300054351
Description: Good/Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0300054351 Ex-Library Usual Stamps Etc. As well as the history of cannibas, there is review of its use for a variety of conditions including glaucoma, MS, pain, pruritis, menstrual cramps and labour pain. A well constructed argument for legalization. Library sticker to spine of dust jacket (taped to book), stamp to FEP, title page and inside back cover Library name written on page block. read more
Description: Grinspoon, Lester and James B. Bakalar. MARIHUANA, The Forbidden Medicine. New Haven: Yale University, (1993). 184p, cloth, vg+ in dj. 1st edition, signed by authors. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr
Date Published: 1993-05
ISBN-13:9780300054354ISBN:0300054351
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Yale UP, New Haven, Ct
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780300054354ISBN:0300054351
Description: VG to Fine in Very Good jacket. Smallish Book. Drugs, Marihuana, Narcotics. 184p., includes index, Some browning pp. margins. Slight rubbing dj. Pencil writing on endpaper erased. B46. read more
Description: Very good. Used, remainders or ex-library, english-speaking-service, Gebraucht oder Verlagsrestbestand, evtl. aus Bibliotheksbestand, bei mehrbändigen Werken bitten wir um vorherige Anfrage, korrekte Rechnung mit ausgewiesener MwSt., deutschsprachiger Service, 14-Tage-Rückgaberecht. read more
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