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Name:
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Donald Abrams, M.D.
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Title: |
Professor, Clinical Medicine, UCSF
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Medical Marijuana
Position: |
Pro
to the question "Should marijuana be a medical option?"
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Reasoning: |
"I am the Assistant Director of the AIDS Program at San Francisco General, and we have had for a long time patients with HIV smoking marijuana. And one would think it is the HIV community that has brought medical marijuana to the forefront, but in fact, marijuana has been used as a medicine as we all know, hundreds, if not thousands of years before HIV."
(5/17/99)
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Credibility
Ranking: |
Key Experts
Physicians [We believe physicians are the "key experts" in the medical marijuana debate because the issue is thought by many to be ultimately based on the medical value and risks of marijuana, and Physicians, with their training and clinical work, should (at least in theory) have the best knowledge of marijuana's medical value and risks.].
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Involvement: |
- Asst. Director, AIDS Activities, San Francisco General Hospital, 1983-Present
- Chairman, Community Consortium of Bay Area HIV Health Care Providers, 1985-Present
- Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1984-Present
- Principal Investigator/Author - Clinical Study on Marijuana and HIV/AIDS
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Education: |
- Cancer Research Institute, UCSF, Hematology/Oncology, 1983
- Kaiser Foundation Hospital, S.F., CA, Internal Medicine, 1980
- M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine, 1975
- A.B. Molecular Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI, 1972
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Relevant Affiliations/Honors: |
- University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), Professor of Clinical Medicine
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Contact Info: |
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Other: |
None
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