Justice Dept: No Accepted Medical Use For Marijuana

[Dale]

A few months ago I saw an article in The Star, the Toronto paper, which has some very good scientific articles. It was written by a doctor and he tackled the question of whether medical marijuana is effective against pain. After sorting through more medical evidence than you care to hear about, he reaches the bottom line: There is no evidence that marijuana is effective against pain. Obviously being high on pot could distract you from physical pain, but it isn't a painkiller.

The bottom line is that "medical marijuana" is a hoax to get around the law.


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[Dale]

Well....that's a step backwards. Gotta love the war on drugs: A drug thats hard to get addicted too, nigh impossible to OD on, and causes damage to nothing but any nearby Fritos, is illegal. But a drug that is MADE to be addictive and has a pretty good chance of causing cancer, and one that's involved in many violent crimes, are totally ok.

Hospital workers have told me that they see men in their forties who are totally disabled from the damage that marijuana does to the lungs.


When I was a student at Georgia Tech, the doctor who was head of the Infirmary told us the difference between alcohol and marijuana. It can take thirty years of heavy alcohol use to reach the point of total breakdown. That's why men in their fifties have breakdowns from excessive drinking. They start drinking too much in their twenties and for a while it looks like their young bodies can handle it. After about thirty years, in their fifties, their bodies can't take it any more and they have a complete breakdown, often entering a sanitarium.

The difference between alcohol and marijuana? Heavy pot users typically reach total breakdown in about four years. That's why college students can reach breakdown from marijuana, it works much faster.


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[mpok1519]

Mostly because hemp was poised to be a competitor to the timber industry.

Its also a competitor on other arenas

Legalize marijuana, and people won't spend millions on antidepressants (which have side effects that include depression and suicide), people won't buy as much alcohol and cigarettes (taxed by the state), people won't buy as much cotton (hemp is more durable, cheaper, easier to grow and harvest).

The biggest factor is guns; if I am a gun manifacturer, I want to sell as many guns as possible to everyone. Whether its criminals selling the drugs, or law enforcement getting rid of them, I want to make as much money as possible by selling to both sides. Legalize weed, and well, thats less criminals to sell guns to, and less law enforcement.

Another big factor is private prisons; they trade and sell the stock of their companies (prison companies) based upon how many people are within the walls of the prison. The more people incarcerated, the more valuable their stock is. Legalize weed, and their stock will tumble bc less people will be incarcerated for drug related offenses.

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There are over 200 known ailments, diseases, and conditions marijuana is known to treat or alleviate.

Not a single pharmaceutical can do that; and the pharmaceutical companies know this, and will do everything they can to lobby for marijuana criminalization. They stand to lose millions, and eventually billions, if people had safe access to cannabis medicine.

 

[mpok1519]

Hospital workers have told me that they see men in their forties who are totally disabled from the damage that marijuana does to the lungs.


When I was a student at Georgia Tech, the doctor who was head of the Infirmary told us the difference between alcohol and marijuana. It can take thirty years of heavy alcohol use to reach the point of total breakdown. That's why men in their fifties have breakdowns from excessive drinking. They start drinking too much in their twenties and for a while it looks like their young bodies can handle it. After about thirty years, in their fifties, their bodies can't take it any more and they have a complete breakdown, often entering a sanitarium.

The difference between alcohol and marijuana? Heavy pot users typically reach total breakdown in about four years. That's why college students can reach breakdown from marijuana, it works much faster.


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Evidence please; there are people who smoke pot their entire lives and never reach breakdown.

Also, marijuana doesn't have to be smoked like it used to be; it can be injested, causing no real damage to the digestive system. It also can be vaporized, where the person is no longer inhaling the carcinogens of dead plant matter, but they're only inhaling the THC because the source of heat used to extract the drug is not of a high enough temperature to combust the plant matter and carcinogens. You can injest the weed without even lighting it on fire, saving your lungs the health risks.

Also, marijuana cultivation has become quite the botanical science; it is becoming more and more potent, so that a user doesn't need to smoke an entire joint to get the same desired effect that he can get from one single hit of high grade marijuana. Sure, if a person is smoking ten joints of shwag a day, their lungs will probably suffer, but just a few hits of high grade stuff will give the user the same effect, but without the health risks.

There really is no reason for marijuana to be illegal.

 

[mpok1519]

A few months ago I saw an article in The Star, the Toronto paper, which has some very good scientific articles. It was written by a doctor and he tackled the question of whether medical marijuana is effective against pain. After sorting through more medical evidence than you care to hear about, he reaches the bottom line: There is no evidence that marijuana is effective against pain. Obviously being high on pot could distract you from physical pain, but it isn't a painkiller.

So, I assume this doctor has been in pain, and tried marijuana to reach his conclusion, correct? If not, how can he say that? there are tons of medical marijuana users who conclude without a doubt that it alleviates pain. Distracted from the pain? Yeah, thats the idea! Sure it doesn't numb your nervous system like opiates do, but, if you had a choice, of either being distracted from the pain without any long-term addictive side effects, OR, numbed totally from the pain, but then develope an addiction to opiates, which would you rather have?

The bottom line is that "medical marijuana" is a hoax to get around the law.

The bottom line is the law isn't a doctor. The law enforcement agencies and judges didn't go to medical school. They don't know crap about medicine.

Yet cigarettes and booze, they see as perfectly fine. Why? Bc they probably drink and smoke cigarettes, thats why.

 

[Schneiderman]

The bottom line is that "medical marijuana" is a hoax to get around the law.

So what? It's still a stupid, counter productive law. What's the medical use for alcohol or tobacco? Would banning alcohol or tobacco be good policy? Oh wait, we tried it on alcohol once.

 

[Amber the Duskbringer]

Vaporizers are so amazing. *ahem* well I wouldn't know from experience of course!

 

[DaisyDay]

Dale, students can reach breakdown in college from alcohol, too.