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To the Editor: At the end of his review of Marihuana and Medicine, Benson (Sept. 9 issue)¹ states, "The editors' drug-control bias obscures the promise of drug development." Dr. Benson is the senior editor of the 1999 report by the Institute of Medicine, "Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base,"² which recommends medicinal use of marijuana smoking, after describing its scientific basis. This scientific basis involves the assumption that there is an endogenous anandamide cannabinoid system, ⁹-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), having a basic physiologic role. This rationale is described by Lichtman and Martin, in what Benson calls "the most compact . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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