Marijuana and medicine: Assessing the science base: A summary of the 1999 Institute of Medicine report

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 547-552

  Watson, Stanley J ^a,d   Benson Jr , John A ^b   Joy, Janet E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIEMETIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CANNABINOID; CANNABINOID RECEPTOR; CANNABIS; DRONABINOL; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

ANALGESIA; APPETITE; DROWSINESS; DRUG DEPENDENCE; EPILEPSY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GLAUCOMA; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NAUSEA; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PAIN; POLICY; SHORT SURVEY; SPASTICITY; VOMITING; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 0034087404     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.57.6.547     Document Type: Short Survey

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