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Mary Jane Rathbun was beloved among patients with AIDS at San Francisco General Hospital in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As a volunteer, she took them for X-rays, filed their prescriptions — and supplied them with marijuana-laced brownies to alleviate their debilitating pain and wasting symptoms.
Proponents' claims about the medical benefits of marijuana are outpacing the evidence.
That service resulted in 'Brownie Mary' being arrested on multiple occasions. But patients got relief from her deliveries, and doctors both at her hospital and elsewhere were taking note. Barth Wilsey, then a pain research fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, also heard patients claiming they benefitted from this illicit substance. “I had a number of patients going to a dispensary in Oakland who told me that they were getting more relief from marijuana than from the medicine I gave them,” he says. Inspired by Brownie Mary, Donald Abrams,...
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