Good Medical Marijuana video

[Popol Vuh]

And a good Drug War video

Reefer Madness 2

War On Drugs War On Ourselves

[Sejanus]

1. Medical Marijuana hoax

The issue of medical marijuana is one of the biggest hoaxes being put out-THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, is already available by prescription in a suppository form for those who need it-No reputable doctor would prescribe THC by smoking it-or any other drug for that manner- as he cannot control or know the dose being administered and the cancer risk. Come off the medical marijuana guise and clearly state your goal-That you want marijuana legalized- as a pretty good argument can be made for that proposition as marijuana is unique in that it is the only substance known that does not have a toxic level

[Popol Vuh]

2. Sigh

You sound like you're an advertiser / lobbyist for the pharmaceutical industry.

Anyway, do you have any idea how many places in the world and for how many thousands of years marijuana has been used (quite effectively) for a multitude of medical reasons? From reading your post, I would say apparently not.

And even IF the synthesized versions of THC worked as effectively against all the medical uses of marijuana (which it doesn't); what are you trying to say? That you're against using an historically proven effective medical treatment which people can easily grow for themselves?

Now, if you knew as much as you come across that you do. You'd know, for example, that marinol or any other synthetic THC compound doesn't work at treating asthma -- and marijuana smoking not only works, but works better than the typical inhalers. And there are many other examples of where synthetic THC either doesn't work, or doesn't work as good. I myself am a medical marijuana patient, and have tried synthetic THC and can tell you from personal experience that I'll never use that stuff again. It puts you into too much of a drug stupor for too long. Smoking it on the other hand is much more better.

Also, if one is concerned with any detrimental effect from smoking it, which by the way is nothing -NOTHING- like smoking tobacco. Then it is nothing to use it orally by cooking with it. That is of course unless you happen to be in the pharmaceutical industry and know that you stand to lose lots of money.

You state that you know what my goal is, and you don't even know me. How arrogant. You have no idea of my reasons for posting what I posted. Now not that it is any of your business. But my personal position with respect to marijuana is one of two -separate- issues. I do argue for an end of the failed war against drugs which does more harm than any of the drugs themselves. But I also argue for the legal medical access to marijuana because of its historically proven effectiveness at treating a multitude of medical problems. And I resent your accusation.

Now you mentioned about cancer. Again if you knew what you try to come across as, then you'd be familiar with the multitude of medical studies which have been done throughout the years which show promising results at treating certain kinds of cancer. Now I mentioned above that marijuana smoke doesn't affect you the way tobacco smoke does. And if you knew what you were posting about you'd know how the different smokes affect you. This is also a subject that I love hearing opponents bring up because unlike tobacco users, these people can't produce any bodies. They can't come up with any mortality statistics showing the cause of death due to complications brought on by smoking marijuana.

Now here's a document I offer for you to read. Its only a small one of many, many, many medical research documents that are out there.

http://members.cox.net/popol_vuh/medical_marijuana.pdf

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3. The problem with the suppository is two fold:

one: You can always take more, but cannot take less. When you smoke, you can stop if you're feeling sick or if you feel you don't want any more. With the suppository, you can't. Once it's in you, it's in you. If it's 3 times the dosage that you should be taking, you still cannot undo it. You won't die, but you will get very sick, which if you're smoking weed medicinally, would be even worse.

two: people say that smoking weed medicinally is bad because it has over 400 psychoactive chemicals besides the THC in the suppository. But then, they also say that we already have medicinal marijuana in the form of the suppository. How do you know that some of the medicinal effects of marijuana don't come from one of those other 399 chemicals?

[K-W]

4. Literally nothing in your post is true, but thanks for contributing. EOM

[cannabis_flower]

5. Along with the other reasons posted...

Do you know the cost of marinol? Many people don't have insurance that would make marinol obtainable. A friend of mine had a prescription for marinol and do you know how much it cost? He said it cost something like $80 a pill without insurance. I can buy a whole ounce of marijuana for $80 and that will last me over a month.

[nebenaube]

6. Sativex and it's not a suppository...

Cancer smancer, my immune system will kill me and damage my lungs long before cancer ever does.