14 DAY TRIAL // A recent poll shows that 76% of doctors are confident that terminal cancer patients should not be denied the opportunity of trying to alleviate some of their symptoms with the help of medical marijuana.
1,446 doctors were asked to decide whether or not a 68-year-old woman experiencing symptoms associated with metastatic breast cancer should be given medical marijuana.
3 out of 4 said that, since the woman was at the end of her life and was not responding well to anti-nausea medications, no harm could come out of allowing her to take this drug.
“Physicians in favor of marijuana often focused on their responsibility as caregivers to alleviate suffering,” the researchers who carried out this poll reportedly wrote in their paper.
“Many pointed out the known dangers of prescription narcotics, supported patient choice, or described personal experience with patients who benefited from the use of marijuana,” they further added.