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Smoked Marijuana is not Medicine - but Components of Cannabis Might be
- From Dr Kevin Sabet
By Dr. Kevin Sabet - Special Advisor for Policy, ONDCP
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Different views on medicine
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
August 8, 2008 7:33AM
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I differ
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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smoking not relevant
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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reconsider, please
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
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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Reactive Medicine
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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Smoked Marijuana Is Not Medicine.
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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