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California Family Health Council

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

california family health council
is cannabis a medicine?

Health and Human Services claims that “marijuana has no currently accepted medical use in
treatment in the United States.” However, more than 6,500 reports and journal articles from
around the world support the medical value of cannabis (marijuana). In addition, dozens of
public health organizations have endorsed medical use of marijuana including the National
Association of People Living With AIDS, AIDS Action Council, the American Public Health
Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American Nurses Association, the
Federation of American Scientists, Kaiser Permanente, the New England Journal of Medicine, the
National Association for Public Health Policy, the California Medical Association, the Whitman-
Walker Clinic, the Lymphoma Foundation of America, and many more.

It could be used as an herbal remedy. I wouldn’t say medicine because it’s not a drug, it’s an herb.