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Marijuana trial to begin this year
(The Age, May 21, 2003)
Australia's first marijuana trial will get under way in NSW later this year in a bid to provide people suffering chronic pain alternative treatment options. . . . NSW Premier Bob Carr said the appetite-inducing qualities of marijuana would be legally harnessed under a medicinal cannabis scheme, which was greeted with bipartisan support. . . . Mr Carr said the trial was aimed at easing the suffering of people who came to the attention of a working party on cannabis he established in 2000. . . . The premier told parliament it was a compassionate scheme, helping people who suffer from wasting due to cancer and HIV/AIDS, nausea from chemotherapy, severe or chronic pain, muscle spasticity due to multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injuries. . . . NSW joins nine US states, Canada and the Netherlands in legalising marijuana for medicinal use. . . . The NSW Cancer Council cautiously welcomed the plan, saying marijuana could help relieve the pain many cancer patients suffer with treatments like chemotherapy.

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