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Miles, a 12-year-old Labrador retriever mix, was slowly dying of cancer in his liver and lungs. After given two months to live and tramadol, a narcotic for his pain, Miles waited his days out by lying lifeless on the floor.
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His owner, after seeing how the narcotics affected her dog, decided to give him medical marijuana.
Shortly after taking a marijuana tincture from a medical pot dispensary in Los Angeles, Miles' appetite returned, he stopped vomiting and began walking and running around. "It couldn't have been a coincidence," his owner told the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association.
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| Dr. Douglas Kramer at a medical marijuana dispensary in West Hollywood. Photo By Scott Nolen |
Dr. Douglas Kramer, an advocate for marijuana’s potential as a veterinary therapy for terminal animals. After witnessing several animals in severe pain in their last days, Kramer is on board with the American Veterinary Medical Association fight to make the plant readily available to animals,
"We need to investigate marijuana further to determine whether the case reports I’m hearing are true or whether there’s a placebo effect at work. We also need to know what the risks are.”
