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 Medicines are Legal in Other Countries: US Trials Ongoing
- From ASA
By Americans for Safe Access - Medical Marijuana Therapeutics/Research
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The US Govt's Own Patent on Medical Cannabis: 6630507
In 2003 the US Dept. of Health and Human Services was awarded a patent (#6,630,507) on the medical benefits of cannabinoids derived from cannabis. This patent, based on research done at the National Institute of Health states that cannabinoids are useful in the prevention and treatment of a wide variety of diseases, including stroke, trauma, auto-immune disorder, HIV dementia, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. Twelve states allow cannabis to be used medically. Michigan is close to becoming the 13th medical cannabis state.
The current classification of cannabis as a Schedule I substance having a great potential for abuse, AND having no current use for medical treatment in the US, is outdated, and legally must be changed. Since cannabis no longer meets the criteria for inclusion on Schedule one, we can demand this change, and we must.
Prohibition affects all of us, whether we smoke or ingest cannabis, or not.
- Brinna Nanda
October 18, 2008 8:23PM
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