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...What (the government) is trying to say is that in order to win the war on drugs we have to paint all drugs as all bad," says Rick E. Doblin, co-author of an important Kennedy School of Government study released in May that revealed that many cancer specialists had recommended at least once that a patient break the law and smoke marijuana to counteract the effects of chemotherapy...
...government was saying it was a fringe group of doctors (advocating the medicinal use of marijuana)." Doblin says. "We found there's definitely more to it. (The government) rides roughshod over people's real interests, real health needs, for bureaucratic reasons...
...Doblin's study, based on surveys of 1035 members of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, showed that 44 percent of the doctors had, on at least one occasion, urged a patient to smoke marijuana, and that 48 percent would do so if the drug were legal...
...were quite surprised, because doctors are heavily regulated by the government," Doblin says of the results...
...hundred Harvard students calling Congress would probably make all the difference. Rick Doblin International Student Fast Day Committee Kennedy School of Government