1.   Advocates of the medical use of marijuana say the drug is effective in combatting the nausea of chemotherapy and the wasting syndrome of AIDS.

2.   All have continued to have a severe wasting syndrome despite intensive supportive measures. . . .

3.   But the agency was hesitant to allow access to people with wasting syndrome, another AIDS-related illness, although research had shown promising results.

4.   It is also used to revive the appetites of AIDS patients suffering from a lethal wasting syndrome.

5.   Patients contend that smoking marijuana stimulates the appetite and wards off the wasting syndrome that weakens people with AIDS.

6.   Sally Cooper said the groups began importing the drug only after two years of unsuccessfully lobbying the FDA to expand its use to include people with wasting syndrome.

7.   Smoking marijuana, for example, can alleviate the nausea associated with cancer chemotherapy and the wasting syndrome associated with AIDS.

8.   Supporters of medicinal marijuana say it can stimulate the appetites of people suffering from the AIDS-related wasting syndrome and ease nausea in cancer patients.

9.   The briefs contain considerable information about current practices of using marijuana to combat glaucoma, the nausea of chemotherapy, and the wasting syndrome of AIDS.

10.   The patients who can benefit from supplements are those -- unlike the Advera model -- suffering from wasting syndrome, he said.