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You’re sick. Someone offers you marijuana, saying that it will alleviate your suffering. Do you take it? Many patients and doctors have insisted that marijuana is uniquely beneficial, while others say the dangers of cannabis far outweigh the benefits. We know that marijuana is a drug, but is it a medicine?
so let me get this straight... i can't smoke cannabis because it will make me some psycho crazy big time danger to society, but if i got to your pharmacy and get a drug WITH THE SAME ACTIVE COMPOUNDS AS MARIJUANA/CANNABIS MARINOL, and i get to pay an arm and a leg for it, it's ok i'll be just a norml (yeah that's right) NORML guy as long as i am paying you????
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Many medicines out there have different results for different people. I think we should not disuade a drug because of the political stigma assiciated with it. Look at all those opiods and cocane derivatives that are used daily by our medical community. It is time to dispell the myth and run corrupt lobbyiest out of politics ! The time and voice of the people will be heard. Medicine is medicine and this one has been used as such for as long as recorded history.
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Marijuana is Not the Answer
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Prohibition is not the answer
When I began smoking pot in 1968, I found it to be an effective anxiolytic, and helpful in attaining sleep after a full day of work followed by night school; and it was only decades later that I learned why my asthma mysteriously subsided about that time after plaguing me since childhood.
To claim the "raw crude herb" can never have medical value is patently absurd-- Why is coffee legal if caffeine pills can be prescribed? Oranges vs Vitamin C pills...
Cannabis was in the US Pharmacopoeia for a century. What "science" led to its removal?
hint- Google: Anslinger jazz swing.
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I live in Texas. The is NO Medical Cannabis program here. If you even mention the word cannabis to a physician he/she curls up in a fetal ball, puts their hand over their ears, and says NANANANA. He/she could loose his/her license, be put in jail, called incompetent, etc. Ya'll speak of "No Medical Value". How do you know? Meaningfull research is NOT allowed in this country into the curitive properties of the compounds in this plant. Allow research. Then come back, and say there is no medical value. Considering I have used cannabis oil to remove all visual signs of Basal Cell, and Squamous Cell Carcinoma from my head, I don't think you will be able to.
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Can you explain why DFA is funded by tobacco and alcohol?
Tell me why tobacco and alcohol corporations fund Drug Free America. Could it be because they are afraid of competition from a substance which does NOT cause cancer, does NOT give hangovers, does NOT cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year?
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Drug Free America is also sponsord buy Drug Companies.
Do you find it outrageously ironic that the Partnership for a Drug Free America is funded almost wholly buy alcohol, tobacco and pharmacuetical companies. Here are a few from the list: Johnson and Johnson, DuPont, Merk, Bristol Myers Squibb, P&G.
Medical marijuana advocates are often accused of having biases. Of course we do, we side with reason and logic. We don't have a profit motive. It's just a damned plant.
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That does make a lot of sense doesn't it
Sarcasm and irony.
Why don't we talk from positions of facts, instead of fear.
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Not the answer to what question?
This "marijuana is not the answer" rhetoric is just the latest talking point that prohibitionists have adopted. The answer to what question? If it's "What new treatment can we patent and sell to the public?", then I agree... the whole marijuana plant is not the answer to that question.
I believe that if marijuana "is not the answer" then one must look at the possibility that you are asking yourselves the wrong question.
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Department of Health and Human Services disagrees with you
This is a quote...
"Cannabinoids have been found to have antioxidant properties, unrelated to NMDA receptor antagonism. This new found property makes cannabinoids useful in the treatment and prophylaxis of wide variety of oxidation associated diseases, such as ischemic, age-related, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. The cannabinoids are found to have particular application as neuroprotectants, for example in limiting neurological damage following ischemic insults, such as stroke and trauma, or in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and HIV dementia."
That's Cannabinoids... from Cannabis... which is Marijuana. Want to know where that quote comes from? Get this... it comes from the text of a patent provided to the United States of America as represented by the Department of Health and Human Services. That's right... your government and my government. The same gevernment that sponsors this propaganda machine called Drug Free America. Check it out for yourself...
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6630507/fulltext.html
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January 28, 2009 1:58AM
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Money
The only FDA approved, is FDA approved because pharmaceutical companies can make money from it, and they hold the FDA's puppet strings. Regardless, just use a vaporizer, it has none of the negative effects of smoking. This is just a stupid argument because states have the right to choose and we have the president on our side. Now that we've started, we can't be stopped.
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Intresting logic
If cannabis is not the answer than why is marinol? You don't have to smoke cannabis.
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Your views make me sick
Marijuana IS a medicine i dont give a shit what your moral views are. if a patient through personal experience gets relief from marijuana YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO DENY THEM. marijuana is a safe, non-toxic medicine that has no chance of killing you that relieves so much pain. i dont hate anyone expect thoughs that support a view that holds no water. WHY ARE WE PUTTING PEOPLE IN PAIN IN PRISON. we have laws in place to protect people. these people pose no harm to society except they want to relieve pain. go to hell worthless scum.
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Hypocrites
As far as I'm concerned, Drug Free America Foundation is a fraudulant group of morons who should be put out of business for being a front for Big Pharma. Ever notice that they don't call for outlawing tobacco or alcohol , which kill far more people per year than marijuana has in DECADES?! Why not? Because the government makes too much money off taxing them, and banning alcohol didn't work in the 1920s. And if marijuana were legal and used as medicine , it would take a huge bite out of Big Phama's profits!
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Misleading statement which when explores disproves argument.
"Smoking or ingesting marijuana damages the immune system – an intolerable side effect for an end of life or immune-suppressed patient." -- I'd like to see some citations for this. an April 16, 2003 article in the American Medical Association's journal demonstrated that cannabis lowers levels of the inflammation-promoting protein interleukin-2 and raises levels of the anti-inflammatory protein interleukin-10. This means, in layman's terms, that it fights inflammation. However, since inflammation is part of the immune system, this finding has been twisted around by certain dishonest organisations to imply a weakening of the immune system, even though no increased susceptibility to any diseases other than bronchitis* has ever been shown. To paraphrase with less technical detail:
When the Partnership for a Drug Free America says that cannabis damages the immune system, what they REALLY mean (or should, if they bothered to read the literature) is that it reduces swelling. Thus, if your question is "what's a good way to deal with swollen joints after exercise that won't cause unwanted effects (but might feel good)," cannabis just might be the answer.
*Acute bronchitis incidence rate is higher for cannabis users than the general population, but researchers have thus far failed to control for the means by which the cannabis is ingested or the context in which it's used. Taking huge gulps of air while in a humid environment , such as on your porch while it's raining, could alone account for the effect. And if the smoke itself could be explained as a contributing factor, it's likely that the use of vapourizers, or, to a lesser extent bongs, could mitigate this effect.
Both of these findings could be of potential benefit for treating autoimmune disorders one day.
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