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May 31, 2011

Documents Reveal Inter-Agency Politicking That Led to Changes to Marijuana Entry in Federal Cancer Treatment Database

Newly obtained documents show the government agency politicking that went into scrubbing the acknowledgment of marijuana's potential tumor-fighting effects in a National Cancer Institue database.

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April 5, 2011

Cannabis May Cure Cancer, But US Doctors Will Have a Hard Time Finding Out

CANNABIS CULTURE - The US government's National Cancer Institute first posted, then buried, information about the antitumor effects of the cannabis plant. Shouldn't this information be readily available to doctors and all Americans?

Medical

March 31, 2011

NCI Offers Explanation for Changes to its Medical Marijuana Database Entry

National Cancer Institute says summaries are not treatment recommendations and not representative of federal policy.

Medical

March 30, 2011

First Federal Agency to Acknowledge Medical Marijuana Removes Anti-Tumor Information From Database

Just a few days after posting it to its website, The National Cancer Institue has replaced a sentence about marijuana’s direct anti-tumor effect with one stating that it is prescribed mainly to battle nausea, pain and insomnia among cancer patients.

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March 29, 2011

Federal Agency Recognizes Marijuana’s Medical Benefit for People Living with Cancer

National Cancer Institute updates its website as 9-year old petition to reschedule marijuana gathers dust.

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Documents Reveal Inter-Agency Politicking That Led to Changes to Marijuana Entry in Federal Cancer Treatment Database

Cannabis May Cure Cancer, But US Doctors Will Have a Hard Time Finding Out

NCI Offers Explanation for Changes to its Medical Marijuana Database Entry

First Federal Agency to Acknowledge Medical Marijuana Removes Anti-Tumor Information From Database

Federal Agency Recognizes Marijuana’s Medical Benefit for People Living with Cancer