Effects of Smoked Marijuana on the lung and its immune defenses: Implications for medicinal use in HIV-Infected patients

Cannabis Therapeutics in HIV/AIDS

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 87-102

  Tashkin, Donald P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; Cannabis; HIV; Medical marijuana; Pulmonary function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009063879     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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