... controls nausea and vomiting in chemotherapy patients, some of whom are not helped by standard anti-emetics. Lester Grinspoon, leading activist for medicinal marijuana, argues that ten out of twenty migraine sufferers are not helped by normally prescribed medicines but are relieved with the use ... breathing, Grinspoon recommends the drug as a means of easing childbirth. A California study showed that smoking marijuana reduced the damaging pressure inside the eye caused by glaucoma. A pharmacologist for the U.S. FDA, Denis Petro's 1981 study showed that oral THC reduced spasticity in peo...

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