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Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Palliative Care: Lessons from Medical Marijuana

For someone with a serious illness, the days are marked not by hours, but by an endless parade of pharmaceuticals. Unless you treat your disease with medical marijuana. Take it when you want, take how much you want, buy it when you need it, forget it when you don't.

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By Madeleine Brand • Feb 15, 2016 • 1 min read

For someone with a serious illness, the days are marked not by hours, but by an endless parade of pharmaceuticals. Unless you treat your disease with medical marijuana. Take it when you want, take how much you want, buy it when you need it, forget it when you don't. One expert in palliative care says that the health care system can learn a lot from how patients use medical marijuana.

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    Madeleine Brand

    Host, 'Press Play'

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