{"id":10382,"date":"2018-05-11T08:46:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10382"},"modified":"2018-05-11T08:48:07","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T12:48:07","slug":"when-cancer-patients-ask-about-weed-many-doctors-say-go-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10382","title":{"rendered":"When Cancer Patients Ask About Weed, Many Doctors Say Go For It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christine Herman for NPR)<\/p>\n<p>Thirty U.S. states have enacted medical cannabis laws, and all but one of them include cancer in the list of conditions allowed. Such laws give cancer patients across the country access to a substance that remains illegal under federal law. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/health-shots\/2018\/05\/10\/610039787\/when-cancer-patients-ask-about-weed-many-doctors-say-go-for-it?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=62842560&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8UAYLPHI_QTexaaQ_rQCYYHGCrer3hbdujQ5w8Wfi76MGQDcDEa1Gdou0HB7QyKVS4nFksO9nj08Jom601d-VO5Py9VQ&amp;_hsmi=62842560\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3902\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"55\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-family: Georgia;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">This story was produced in partnership with<\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/sideeffectspublicmedia.org\/\"><em>Side Effects Public Media<\/em><\/a><em>, a news collaborative covering public health.<\/em><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Christine Herman for NPR) Thirty U.S. states have enacted medical cannabis laws, and all but one of them include<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-health-issues","category-part-dprescription-drugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10382"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10384,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10382\/revisions\/10384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}