Marijuana: A decade and a half later, still a crude drug with underappreciated toxicity

Pediatrics

Volumn 109, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 284-289

  Schwartz, Richard H ^a,b  

^a INOVA FAIRFAX HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cannabis; Drug abuse; Marijuana

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CANNABIS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ASTHMA; CANNABIS ADDICTION; CHEMOTHERAPY INDUCED EMESIS; CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME; DEPRESSION; DRUG DEPENDENCE TREATMENT; DRUG LEGISLATION; DRUG URINE LEVEL; DYSMENORRHEA; EPILEPSY; FIBROMYALGIA; HUMAN; INTERNET; MIGRAINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELAPSE; REVIEW; SPASTICITY; TRACHOMA; WASTING SYNDROME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CANNABIS; DRUG AND NARCOTIC CONTROL; HUMANS; INTERNET; MALE; MARIJUANA ABUSE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHYTOTHERAPY; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0036164095     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.109.2.284     Document Type: Review

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