Pa. Medical Society 'updates' position on medicinal marijuana

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The Pennsylvania Medical Society, while still opposed to the broad-based legalization of marijuana for medicinal purposes, has “updated” its position on the issue.

This weekend, at the Medical Society’s annual House of Delegates meeting, the state’s largest physician organization voted overwhelmingly to ask the state to fund research on the use of marijuana for medical purposes.

The Medical Society took up the issue after a resolution was presented to the organization from Montgomery County Medical Society to support medical marijuana for compassionate care and medical conditions in which no Food and Drug Administration-approved prescription medication is effective.

During the final vote in front of the organization’s full House of Delegates, the majority of physicians took the position that since research has been hampered at the federal level, that the organization should endorse an expanded program of trials of cannabidiol oil to treat children with epileptic seizure disorders, with state...

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