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Medical marijuana advocates hope lawsuit relaxes US drugs policy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/07/medical-marijuana-advocates-lawsuit-us-drugs
Next week's hearing is the result of a long legal battle by patient and doctors advocating legal access to marijuana. Photograph: Leopoldo Pena/Zuma press/Corbis
Michael Krawitz, from Elliston, Virginia, suffered a car accident while serving in the US air force which left him permanently disabled and in chronic pain.
Years later he received a prescription for medical marijuana while abroad, which, when used with other pain treatment, stabilised his condition for the first time.
But when the department of veteran affairs found out about his cannabis prescription, they asked him to undergo a drug test, he said, which he refused.
They have now denied him further treatment.
