SCIENTISTS CLOSER TO KNOWING HOW MARIJUANA KILLS PAIN

UNDATED -- Maria Welch, a 52-year-old Baker City, Ore., resident who
underwent surgery in July to remove most of her cancerous right lung,
was in misery after doctors sent her home with some potent
pain-killers. The drugs deadened some of the pain, but left her
nauseous, hallucinatory and suffering from sleepless nights.

Then a friend gave Welch two marijuana brownies. "When I ate them I
couldn't believe it. It was like a miracle.

It took the pain away and it gave me an appetite," said Welch, a food
industry researcher. Now research has confirmed what some patients,
like Welch, have been claiming all along: Marijuana does indeed kill
pain.

Checked-by: Patrick Henry