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Medical Marijuana’s Potential Benefits, Risks

  |  Issue: July 2016  |  

“If that’s how we have to get it more generally accepted in the United States,” he said, “then I’m okay with that.”

Thomas R. Collins is a freelance medical writer based in Florida.

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