Medical Marijuana Gets Cancer Patient Kicked Off Transplant List

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Monday, December 5, 2011
63-year-old Norman Smith, who was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in 2009, was placed on the transplant list at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center last year as his only hope of survival. But in February, he was removed from the list. The reason? He was taking the medication his oncologist has prescribed for him: medical marijuana.
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