Pubdate: Wed, 5 May 2010
Source: Washington Post (DC)
Copyright: 2010 The Washington Post Company
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Author: Lena H. Sun, Washington Post Staff Writer
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D.C. COUNCIL APPROVES MEDICAL MARIJUANA, POSING CHALLENGES FOR DOCTORS
For doctors such as Pradeep Chopra, long accustomed to prescribing
carefully tested medications by the exact milligram, medical marijuana
presents a particular conundrum.
On Tuesday, the D.C. Council gave final approval to a bill
establishing a legal medical marijuana program. If Congress signs off,
District doctors — like their counterparts in 14 states, including
Rhode Island, where Chopra works — will be allowed to add pot to the
therapies they can recommend to certain patients, who will then eat
it, smoke it or vaporize it until they decide they are, well, high
enough.
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