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Cedars-Sinai Denying Transplant to Medical Marijuana Patient with Inoperable Liver Cancer

Patient advocacy group calls on preeminent health center to change harmful transplant policy

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Los Angeles, CA –(ENEWSPF)–November 17, 2011.  Sixty-three year-old medical marijuana patient Norman B. Smith was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer in 2009 and sought treatment from the internationally lauded Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Smith’s oncologist at Cedars-Sinai, Dr. Steven Miles, approved of his medical marijuana use as a means to deal with the effects of chemotherapy and pain from an…

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