Glaucoma: A Patient's View
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Robert C. Randall is the president of the Alliance for Cannabis Therapeutics and a legal medicinal marijuana patient. Marijuana can make the difference between years of functional vision or blindness for people afflicted with glaucoma. I know this firsthand. Marijuana has given me nearly 20 years of vision. Despite marijuana's therapeutic value in the treatment of glaucoma, only three glaucoma patients in the United States currently receive legal, medically supervised access to marijuana. In each instance, marijuana has dramatically improved medical control over glaucoma and provided safe, effective relief from progressive nerve damage.
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تاریخ انتشار 2017