AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: LET DOCTORS TELL PATIENTS OF MARIJUANA

The American Medical Association, the influential group representing
U.S.doctors, Tuesday proposed that doctors be allowed to discuss with
their patients the potential benefits of using marijuana to treat some
diseases without risk of criminal charges.

Delegates at the AMA's semiannual policymaking committee in Dallas
approved a resolution that recommends allowing free discussion between
doctors and patients about marijuana use for treatment of diseases such as
AIDS and multiple sclerosis.

But the AMA delegates made no recommendation as to whether doctors should
be allowed to advise their patients to use marijuana, or whether medicinal
marijuana use should be legalized.