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The group is the second largest of its kind in the United States. It cites evidence that marijuana as a medical tool helps with the treatment of severe weight loss associated with ATDS and with countering some of the side effects of chemotherapy in cancer patients.
“Additional research is needed to clarify marijuana’s therapeutic properties and determine standard and optimal doses and routes of delivery. Unfortunately, research expansion has been hindered by a complicated federal approval process, limited availability of research-grade marijuana and the debate over legalization,” the group said.
The Philadephia based medical group was founded in 1915, and is composed of 124,000 doctors that treat adults.
The group is highlighting the use of the THC component of marijuana and not the smoked form of the drug. At this time the government has marijuana listed as a schedule 1 controlled substance placing it in the same grouping of drugs like LSD and heroin.
There are a dozen states that allow for the use of marijuana in medical cases but those states also patients can also face federal charges.
Rob Kampia, executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, which urges legal and regulated sales of marijuana, said, “This statement by America’s second-largest doctors group demolishes the myth that the medical community doesn’t support medical marijuana.”
“The ACP’s statement smashes a number of other myths, including the claims that adequate substitutes are available or that marijuana is unsafe for medical use,” Kampia added.
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