“Majority would give a prescription to an advanced cancer patient in pain.Three-quarters of doctors who responded to a survey about medical marijuana said they would approve the use of the drug to help ease pain in an older woman with advanced breast cancer.
….there are two FDA-approved prescription cannabinoid pills — dronabinol (Marinol) and nabilone (Cesamet) — that don’t begin working as quickly as smoked marijuana, but provide longer symptom relief without the high of marijuana.
They also don’t appear to have any addictive properties, he said.
What many doctors would like to see, according to the survey, is more evidence on the use of marijuana as medicine, so they could make a better-informed decision one way or the other.”
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