The recreational use of marijuana has been glamorized over the years by such on-screen duos as Cheech & Chong and Harold & Kumar, but is the drug everything that Hollywood makes it out to be? Then again, are we being hypocritical by allowing alcohol consumption but not cannabis usage? With passionate believers on both sides of the argument, it will be interesting to see what happens when the smoke clears.
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Dr. Sabet, consider Marijuana an "alternative medicine", or "natural remedy". It needs no processing to have it's effect. There are a great many people who do not agree with conventional medicine. Should they be forced to use only FDA approved medicinal remedy's? Dr.'s scoff at herbal remedies, however there is a large following for the same. Should those who do not wish to ingest chemically processed "medications" be required to suffer? For the seroiusly ill, is there any possibility that smoked Marijuana may actually be having a positive effect on their pain, where other drugs have failed or is it a farce? Why do medical marijuana patients extoll the benifits of using the substance? Probably because their drug addicts right? And Marijuana makes you lose your mind and go "crazy" just like they said it does back in the 20's, right?
I just want to know what year, exactly it was, that the FDA became the only source for determining medicinal value. It has to have been pretty recently.
- Asemili
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It is medicine to me the one I have chosen for myself it helps with so many problems. Plus I am 60 a very young 60 and have no medical problems. I have not been to a doctor since I was released from the armed forces in 1971!! Could it be a fountain of youth as well I feel it is I am strong viral and ready to fight for my rights! Stop the War on US now!!
- Cherokee Fred hussein August 27, 2008 6:36PM
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also vaporization as come to change it all just look up the ubie a safe and cheap tool to do this
- ignint October 1, 2008 8:38AM
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In your special to the Seattle Times (2-16) you decry the supposed "nightmares...the heavy social costs" would bring with legalization. What do you call the current state of affairs: the billions spent, the (real) crimes not pursued due to our puritanical obsession, the growth of an underground industry that dwarfs the Mafia, the attendant murders spurred by ungodly profits, the loss of respect for the rule of law, the destabilization and corruption of huge Latin states, not to mention our own justice apparatus, and overall, an increasing belief that our own government is out of touch with reality- based on its long-standing preference for Big Oil and Big Pharma profits over a viable and sustainable domestic hemp industry? If that ain't a nightmare of heavy social costs, what is it?
- teedee February 16, 2009 7:37PM
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Marinol is not always prescribed because it does not produce precisely the same medicinal effects. There are many different cannaboid components of cannabis; THC is simply the primary one. Patients nearly universally prefer using the whole leaf because it is not solely the THC that treats their pain (or nausea or glaucoma). Using the whole leaf or whole leaf extract provides much more comprehensive relief.
Smoking is rightly decried as being damaging to the lungs and counterproductive to health. Luckily, patients can avoid the negative effects of smoking by using vaporizing tools or ingesting oil- or alcohol extracts.
- locavore February 27, 2009 10:53AM
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Smoked or vaporized marijuana is reactive medicine , as opposed to proactive medicine such as oral pharmaceuticals. Proactive medicines are well suited for nausea, pain, and depression just to name a few that relate to marijuana. Marijuana is almost a novel medicine, but only because government made that so. If government had not lied about marijuana, we would more widely know about reactive medicines.
- Starlon June 12, 2009 6:56AM
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WRONG! Smoked/vaporized marijuana is good medicine . OK you are a Dr, or so you claim. So tell me "What is the safest, most therapeutically active substance I can take on a daily, regular basis to control chronic nausea and vomiting?" If you say Reglan/Metoclopramide you are wrong. My digestive specialist said while handing me my Reglan prescription, "Do not use Reglan/Metoclopramide on a daily basis (which is what I need) for it causes irreversible Parkinson like shakes and tremors. Though rarer it also causes "Neuroleptic Malignant Syndrome" which is fatal." Marijuana has none of these serious and fatal side effects so why is it illegal ? Not for our health that's for sure.
- eltone November 10, 2009 12:52PM
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Only the Rich
If the rich had a medical need for Cannabis it would be legal as is oxycontin, percocet and many other LEGAL drugs taken by the elite, But of course that's different isn't it? NOT
- bobo2854 July 31, 2008 9:52AM
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Good point
People that have the money and insurance to go to a doctor can get much stronger and more addictive drugs that kill thousands yearly. They are all legal but kill thousands every year. They are so called legal drugs and millions take them. Countries that care about there people have stopped methadone treatment for heroin addiction because it is stronger and more addictive. So they using wisdom and good sense give the heroin because it is less bad for you than the methadone. Whay does our country keep giving the high priced methadone? Because a major phamacutical company makes a lot of money from it. They do not care that it is worse for you or harder to get away from. Typical of our leaders follow the money is all you need to do to see!! MJ deaths to date looking back to the beginning of recorded history 00.0.........
- Cherokee Fred hussein August 19, 2008 7:20PM
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I am a hebilist!!
If I have a pain or problem I go to the herb store explain my need and they suggest something. Natural cures work for me maybe because I am Native American we have been using them since before our country was taken from us. If this War on Us would end I could tell them I had depression and insomnia and they could recommend the best medicine I have found for what ails me lets call it CurallX. Weed helps many it also lifts your spirits tell me what is wrong with that??????? Demand CurallX be make legal it is my medicine of choice the only problem I could go to jail and have my house sold at auction to help pay for the War on US...
- Cherokee Fred hussein August 27, 2008 6:32PM
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