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My daughter, here we go.  Besides my friends who can't reach this medicine my daughter and granddaughter have what I have and I don't know if they will need what I needed, but I know that there are so many people across this country who have the documentation.  I was at the IOM hearing with Jim with the doctors suggesting that his paperwork was so similar to mine, the symptoms, not anything to do with the cause.  But the symptoms from two widely varied illnesses.  His paperwork should have certainly got him into the programme.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: George McMahon, Medical Marijuana User\u003cbr/\u003eUnlike McMahon, Jim Harden cannot legally use cannabis and he risks arrest and imprisonment every time he uses the drug.\u003cbr/\u003eSuffering from a terminal liver complaint, Harden has been denied access to the drug many doctors have recommended for him.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says cannabis reduces his pain and increases his appetite.\u003cbr/\u003eBecause he is too sick to be a candidate for a liver transplant, Harden believes relieving his suffering is the best he can hope for.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't mind the dying part.  But I really don't want my sons and my wife to see me suffer through it.  If there is something out there to keep me from suffering and I don't have to take medicines that hasten my liver disease to my eventual end.  They named me in here, they said let him have it.  I'm not asking for much, I just don't want to suffer and who has a right to make me suffer?\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Jim Harden, Liver Disease sufferer\u003cbr/\u003eThe new Health and Human Services guidelines explicitly reject an Institute of Medicine report, a federal advisory panel, that recommended to allow use of cannabis on compassionate grounds.\u003cbr/\u003eThat report said cannabis can help fight pain and nausea and should be tested further in scientific trials.\u003cbr/\u003eAllowing use on compassionate grounds was one of the demands of the coalition of health workers, researchers, advocates and patients who use cannabis as a medicine.\u003cbr/\u003eThey protested against the new guidelines outside the U-S Department of Health and Human Services.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is a classic example of putting politics before science and in this case its the politics of the extreme, because we know the American people support access to medical marijuana.  Every time the voters are given a chance in an initiative process or in polling, they make it clear that they think the responsible use of medical marijuana is appropriate.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Daniel Zingale, Aids Action Council\u003cbr/\u003eThe U-S federal government has not relented in its opposition to legalising cannabis for medicinal uses.\u003cbr/\u003eThe Justice Department is challenging voter-approved laws in Alaska, Arizona, California, Oregon and Washington. \u003cbr/\u003eIn October, the Justice Department asked a federal appeals court to reconsider a California ruling that could allow seriously ill patients to use cannabis without being prosecuted.\u003cbr/\u003eThe 9th U-S Circuit Court of Appeals in September told a federal judge to rethink his order that closed down some Northern California medical marijuana clubs.\u003cbr/\u003eHe was also told to consider an exemption for patients who face imminent harm without the drug and have no effective legal alternative.\u003cbr/\u003eIn its ruling last month, the appeals court said the government had offered nothing to contradict the evidence that cannabis was an effective treatment for some seriously ill people.\u003cbr/\u003eU-S Drug Czar, Barry McCaffrey defends the new guidelines saying that cannabis is prohibited for good reason.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"Its a Schedule One drug.  American Academy of Science says its a dangerous drug that should not be used by the chronically ill or pregnant women.  Its a drug that by itself will not be a medicine, according to the Institute of Medicine.  Smoke marijuana is not going to be a medicine.  So I think what we are looking at is how do we investigate other chemical compounds that are in smoke marijuana that might have modest potential benefit in the future  - but I think the doctors and the scientific community ought to run this.  It shouldn't be a political issue.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION:  Barry McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy\u003cbr/\u003eActivists say that if the Federal government doesn't listen to their complaints, they will continue to use the State initiatives supporting the use of cannabis to get the message across.\u003cbr/\u003eXFA        Washington and Los Angeles, US - 29 November 1999 and File \u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - November 29, 1999\u003cbr/\u003e1. Close up of tin of legal cannabis cigarettes\u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid view of George McMahon holding cigarette\u003cbr/\u003e3. Cutaway reporter\u003cbr/\u003e4. SOUNDBITE: (English) George McMahon, Cannabis User \u003cbr/\u003e5. Close up of sign, pan up to Jim Harden\u003cbr/\u003e6. Cutaway sign\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jim Harden, Liver Disease sufferer\u003cbr/\u003e8. Pan view of demonstrators\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Daniel Zingale, Aids Action Council\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles - File\u003cbr/\u003e10. Pan of cannabis club\u003cbr/\u003e11. Man smoking\u003cbr/\u003e12. Mid and close-up man buying cannabis\u003cbr/\u003e13. Close up woman smoking\u003cbr/\u003eWashington, DC - November 29, 1999\u003cbr/\u003e14. McCaffrey talking to reporters\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Barry McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles - File\u003cbr/\u003e16. 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