November 22, 2009
A Crusader for Cannabis
Daniel Sheehan for The Chronicle
Sunil Kumar Aggarwal
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Daniel Sheehan for The Chronicle
Sunil Kumar Aggarwal
For more than 30 years, the federal government has classified marijuana as a highly dangerous drug with no medical uses, and for more than a decade, the American Medical Association has endorsed that classification. But this month, the association called on the government to reconsider the drug's current status alongside heroin and LSD, and to consider its medicinal potential. That move came after Sunil K. Aggarwal, who is in his final year of an M.D.-Ph.D. program at the University of
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