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Dr. Dupont and Gen. McCaffrey, that we needed to get this off the books," Del. Katzen said Saturday in a telephone interview. There were only eight cases in the entire country of people who had permits to smoke marijuana as a drug, Del. Katzen said. He added that the committee which considered the bill had a letter from former Drug Czar Dr. Dupont that "smoke marijuana had no properties ' not available in other pharmaceuticals, including marinol [the drug form of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana].” He said that the bill to repeal authorizing medical uses of smoked marijuana in Virginia had the support of the American Cancer Society, the American Medical Association, the National Multiple Sclerosis Association, The American Academy of Opthamology, and the National Eye Institute.
Del. Katzen said testimony' the committee heard indicated research had "determined THC [in smoked marijuana] was so unstable, its value cannot be predicted from one smoke to (he next. The hope that it would be good medicine is outdated," he said. "It has no properties to assist in glaucoma or cancer. If I thought it was the only way to relieve suffering, I would not have supported the bill."
He said getting the bill allowing the use of smoked marijuana off the
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