81.   Phase III testing is the final step before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will consider approving a drug for medical use.

82.   Potential medical uses for these cells are enormous, but there are serious ethical and legal problems and complications.

83.   Schedule II drugs are deemed to have some medical use and are more accessible to researchers.

84.   Several dozen other states have passed laws encouraging greater tolerance in the medical use of the drug.

85.   Silverberg, who does not advocate marijuana for broad medical uses, said he was confident that civil libertarians would succeed in challenging the policy.

86.   Such polymers are used to make thread for absorbable stitches, among other medical uses.

87.   Supporters of using marijuana for medical uses say that among other things, it relieves the effects of cancer and AIDS, the acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

88.   That is in stark contrast to the United States, where the Supreme Court recently scuppered moves by a dozen states to legalize the medical use of marijuana.

89.   The assumption was that their medical use would inevitably lead to addiction.

90.   The decision left some wiggle room for future efforts to allow medical uses.