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?
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Marijuana Lets Patients Continue Life-Saving Treatment
- From Marijuana Policy Project
By Marijuana Policy Project - Reforming U.S. Marijuana Laws
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Polio Survivor...
If it wasn't for my smoke I wouldn't be able to tolerate the residuals of the Polio Virus that I contracted in 1955. It is so much better than the pharmaceuticals that the FDA tries to shove down my throat. This country isn't as free as it wants us to believe. This nation needs to wake up and let those of us who are responsible and need to smoke for medical purposes alone, and let us smoke legally. I bet that every one in our Government is an alcohol drinker and Marijuana is "second" to "alcohol" as to what the Gov. calls a social problem. QUIT! arresting medical marijuana patients. The FDA could go ahead and legallize it and I wouldn't care how much they taxed it. They could take the tax money and put it towards arresting Child Molesters & Meth Lab Junkies..
- keithmyspace August 31, 2008 8:23PM
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It fascinates me
when I hear people talk about how unhealthy marijuana is and how bad it is for the body and the immune system. The two consistent conditions that the medical community supports the use of medical marijuana for are HIV and cancer patients. Doctors advise patients with these conditions to avoid a wide range of health risks including staying out of public places where germs are widely spread and to avoid cats, kittens and litter boxes. Why on earth would a doctor recommend a substance to such high risk group patients if there was anything remotely dangerous about it? It's true that in food forms and vaporization, marijuana is *healthier* than smoking it but even in smoked form it is at the very least gentle on the body and a short search of pubmed.com articles demonstrates that marijuana is actually beneficial to the immune system.
My father-in- law was diagnosed with esophageal cancer and his doctor recommended marijuana to help him cope with the negative side-effects of chemotherapy (a treatment which literally destroys your immune system). Not only did it reduce his nausea but it reduced the blood flow to his tumor and reduced the size of the tumor so that he was able to gain enough weight to have a successful throat surgery. He is now on his way to recovery and I have no doubt whatsoever that his life was saved by his ability to access medical marijuana. I believe the biggest crime is not allowing this plant to be studied closely and that it is difficult for many sick people to access an inexpensive and quality controlled medicine that has been 'trial tested' by thousands of humans for thousands of years.
It is hypocritical for the US lawmakers to ban this plant while they accept lobby money from pharmaceutical companies and aren't drug tested themselves as a condition of their jobs . The amount of money saved on prosecuting marijuana-related crimes and generated by the taxation of the controlled sale of this medicine would more than pay for the theoretical public health issues it *might* raise. I hope we find out soon.
- Cannabeaux
August 8, 2009 2:14AM
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