Several of the patients who were receiving the pain medications were interviewed. They were devastated because they could not find other doctors who would prescribe the amount of pain medication that would make them comfortable. Because of the threat of the DEA, other doctors are overly cautious. The voters in California and Arizona recently passed a law that would allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana for certain ailments. Many patients claim that marijuana is the only thing that relieves their chemotherapy nausea problems.
Chemotherapy often causes the person to lose their appetite.
Marijuana is well known for causing a person to get the munchies. Many AIDS patients say that it is a tremendous help to them. But the Government says that Federal laws against marijuana preempts the state laws. They have said that any doctor who prescribed it would be charged with a felony The New England Journal of Medicine recently came out in favor of doctors being able to prescribe Marijuana. Bone Pain Prostate cancer causes very little pain in the early stages.