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 * //32% of doctors indicated they would consider prescribing medicinal cannabis products if it were legal to do so.//
 * //Between all other physicians, and ophthalmologists, 11% of ophthalmologists and 39% of Other Doctors indicated they would consider prescribing medicinal cannabis if it were legal to do so....//
 * //33% of Other Doctors and 23% of Ophthalmologists thought medical practitioners should be able to prescribe cannabis products."//

WebMD Senior Writer Daniel DeNoon, in a Sep. 6, 2003 article titled "Medical Marijuana Slowly Gains Ground," wrote:

////"In the last week of July 2003, Medscape -- WebMD's web site for medical professionals -- asked its members what they thought about medical marijuana. It wasn't a scientific poll, although a member's vote is counted only once. Still, the results were surprising. There was a huge response. Three out of four doctors -- and nine out of 10 nurses -- said they favored decriminalization of marijuana for medical uses////."////

The Americans for Safe Access (ASA) Communications Consultant Hilary McQuie, stated in a July 27, 2003 article in the //San Francisco Chronicle//:

// //"...since the passage of California's Compassionate Use Act of 1996, more than 1,500 physicians statewide have recommended medical cannabis to their patients."// //

The Los Angeles Cannabis Resource Center's (LACRC) President Scott Imler, told ProCon.org on Dec. 3, 2002:

//"Our membership of almost 2,000 active and inactive members were recommended marijuana as medicine by approximately 448 licensed California physicians.// //Of those recommendations, 80% were for patients with HIV/AIDS, 10% were for cancer, and the remaining 10% were for a variety of other diseases and conditions."// Mark Kleiman, PhD, Professor of Public Policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs, and Rick Doblin, PhD, President of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), conducted a 1990 survey on oncologists' attitudes and experiences with medical marijuana that revealed:

// //"Out of 1,035 clinical oncologists surveyed, 44% of oncologists said they had ever recommended smoked marijuana to one or more of their patients."// //