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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 21:24:52 -0400 (EDT)
From: Garth Miller 
Garth Miller
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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:06:03 -0400
From: Paul Stanford 
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Subject: Brazil and the miracle cure: cannabis
Subject: Brazil finds miracle cure in cannabis
RTw  09/02 2054  Brazilians sing praise of miracle cure - marijuana
 
Copyright, 1996 Reuters Ltd.  All rights reserved. The following news report 
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not be republished or redistributed, in whole or in part, without the prior
written consent of Reuters Ltd.
 
    BRASILIA, Sept 2 (Reuter) - A remarkable herb used as a cure-all by
residents of a small town in northern Brazil has turned out to be marijuana, 

television station said on Monday.
     For years, people in Cruzeta, Rio Grande do Norte state, swore by the
properties of what they called "liamba." But then a police officer grew
suspicious about the true identity of the spindly, green weed and ordered 
tests,
 Globo said.
     "If you've got a wheezing throat, it'll put you right straight away," 
said
Marta Medeiros, recommending a potion made from her backyard marijuana for
toothache and head pains.
     Miguel Matias said he took a tea made from the plant as a pick-me-up. 
"I've
already had two and I'm going to have another three, to keep me young," said 
the
pensioner.
     A local judge took a dim view of the use of the herb, which is being
investigated by police. "The residents could be arrested," Sergio Dantas 
warned
Globo.
  REUTER
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